Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers HIJACKING ALERT! Over a Dozen Domains Stolen From Industry Pioneer's Account Warren Weitzman's worst nightmare has just come true. He has been in the domain game since 1994 but Weitzman has never seen anything like this. Somehow over a dozen domains have been stolen from his Enom account and he thinks the break-in may have occurred as high as the registry level. Even worse, the thefts may not have stopped yet... DNJournal - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 20:30 $200,000 Lost in Three Minutes Flat. Here’s something to give you pause. I contacted a teddy bear company to inquire and establish an account for buying wholesale or having them dropship. This is for the domain HopeBear.com that I had acquired. I’ve seen various types of fund raising “hope” bears sell for roughly $69. Here’s the conversatio... Unplain - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 13:18 New Domain Parking Company Worth a Look RevenueDriver is the newest domain parking company on the block. These days it seems like the number of domain name parking options is declining. So it’s nice to see a new option on the table in RevenueDriver. Based in Italy, RevenueDriver brings multi-lingual support and a European perspective to the parking business. Currentl... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 15:13 Congrats for getting your cherry popped you!! Man, I tell ya.. Everybody is a domain development pro all of the sudden it seems. The domain development boom is in full effect in 2009!! Domainers are slowly but surely building out their domains, however they can, which is great but I have one issue with all of this.. Something that is pretty damn annoying. I mean, it's nice that ... WannaDevelop.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 17:58 BULLETIN! Cavemen spotted on TechCrunch! Morning Folks!! Before I get started on the Neanderthals (Lighten up, I have been called much worse), I want to thank TechCrunch.com for following the Candy.com deal. They have written about it twice now and that is a good thing. Their articles have been good. So I have nothing bad to say about TechCrunch.com and want to thank them .... Rick Schwartz - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 8:43 Bounced Emails & Non-Working Phone Numbers Some of the best domain names I have ever purchased came after receiving a notice with the subject “Delivery Status Notification (Failure)” meaning that it was not received by the intended recipient. This tells me that inquiries from others went unreceived as well, and acquisition attempts probably ended there (or a phone... Elliot Silver - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 12:31 Complete Results From SnapNames Showcase Auction: Gross $108K The first Snapnames.com showcase domain auction ended today with a total of $108,300 in sales. As promised in our earlier post of today here is the complete list of all domains that sold: degreeprograms.com            $31,555.00 camerabags.com                    $10,500.00 pumped.com                           $ 5,750.00 musicarchive.... The Domains - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 20:9 My ErinAndrewsPeepholeVideo Experiment There aren’t many dot com domain names left in the world with any relevance that can still be hand registered. The only opportunity left is certain major events that draw attention.  I am usually not that fast of a mover, nor am I a good SEO person to capture the traffic in a quick manner.  DomainShane.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 21:15 Today’s Snapnames top sales and 14 available related domains I thought it would be interesting to review three of the top keyword domain sales from today’s Snapnames Stimulus Auction and highlight some available related domains. One word of caution:  It’s a common newbie mistake to register worthless domain variations after a major domain sale is published.  For example, if Treats.... DomainTweeter.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 20:43 DegreePrograms.com Sells For $31,500 At SnapNames Showcase Auction The first Snapnames.com showcase auction just closed with DegreePrograms.com leading the way, selling for $31,500. Other notable sales from this auction include: The Domains - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 16:24 Get your Domaining.com ad spot for $300/month! If you are looking for branding or want to show you are part of the domaining services that count then get your ad spot at top of all our pages. Yes, it's now possible for only $300/month. But hurry as inventory is limited. Domaining.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 12:55 100 Unintentional Funny Domain Names Have you ever see domain names that just do not look right in all lowercase? Well here is a list of funny domain names that people have unintentionally done that with. Some of them are explicit but its pretty funny to see a technology company with such a domain name. Anyways here is a list Related posts:End-User’s Perspectiv... YGrab - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 1:20 Strong Domain + Niche Expertise = $$$ Are you an expert? Are you an expert in something? Anything? Chances are that many domainers are leaving money on the table by not putting their niche expertise to work. What do I mean by “niche expertise”? It has been said that almost everyone has some area of specialized knowledge where they know more than Domain Superstar - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 2:11 .US ranking's in google Ron Jackson article about Mount Dora raises an interesting point with .US ranking's in google , ci.mount-dora.fl.us ""The city site's high Google ranking shows that the extension (and laborious name) is not an impediment to finding them in search engines,"" One has to when google will start giving preference to the cctld .US for Amer... Mister US - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 13:39 MiniSites.com I want to apologize for not getting this up sooner for you all to see.  MiniSites.com is our newest advertiser and I wanted to make sure I give you guys as much information about them as possible.  First, let me just say I love their domain name, MiniSites.com for obvious reasons, I would think.  They ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 18:36 Domain Names in the Press I’d like to let you know that I have added a new page to my blog with an extensive list of domain-related articles and news reports. Currently, the list contains links to more than 100 highly informative articles from publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, CNN Money, Wired, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0, Washington Co... Dominik Mueller - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 18:41 Seattle Times Asks, "Where Do These Weird Web Names Come From?" A Seattle Times article discusses where some of the weird web names come from for popular sites like Flickr, Ning, Orkut, Yahoo and more. It seems pretty obvious like in cases of Flickr, they just didn't want to spend the money to purchase a category-killer name like Flicker.Either way, the brands are still very successful. But that ... Fusible.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 15:58 Sedo Sells $750,000 Worth of Domains - Mouse.com and Keyboard.com Both Clear $100K Sedo posted a spectacular week of sales including Mouse.com for $125,000, Keyboard.com for $100,000, 70.com for $87,000, and 63.com for $75,000. In total there were 128 domains sold for over $750,000. Check out the full list of results after the jump… Domain name Auction Price Currency Translation .Coms mo... Domain Name News - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 9:7 Snapnames Summer Stimulus Auction Ending The Snapnames Summer Stimulus Low & No Reserve auction is ending today, and there are many auctions with very low reserves still available for bidding. As previously announced, Snapnames and Moniker will be running monthly theme auctions on the Snapnames platform. This is the first auction of the summer. Some names that I like th... Elliot Silver - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 10:33 Message from ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom Newly appointed ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom posted a message today on the ICANN website with updates on a few key topics. Beckstrom discusses IDNs, DNSSEC, New gTLDs, and the future of ICANN and the Internet (albeit briefly). Regarding the new gTLDs, Beckstrom notes the original memorandum of understanding with the US Government from 199... Elliot Silver - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 19:42 Recently Expired Domain Names - July 21 The following list of recently expired domain names are now available for registration. If search volume is your thing, these domains showed the highest monthly values according to the Google Adwords Tool: TvConverterBox.net 90,500, GardenersSupply.net 18,100, FireworkShows.net 9,900, FranzJosefHotels.com 9,900, DandelionWine.net 6,6... Bill Eisenmann - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 18:32 DotWeekly.com Micro Post on Domain Stuff Here is a little "This and That" from me to you! Just odds and ends related to domain names. ~ Mcat.info sold on Afternic.com for $4,250. I guess the sun does shine on a dogs ass once in a great while! The domain was registered in 2006 and all major TLD’s are registered. This was a DotWeekly - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:51 eBusinessDomains.com Is One Year Old, Today Time flies when you are having fun! Today is exactly one year since the launch of the eBusinessDomains.com domain marketplace. This blog was launched on September 1st last year, so we still has just over a month to go before a full year of blogging. I believe we have done very well in terms of what we eBusinessDomains - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 12:42 Seattle Times Asks, "Where Do These Weird Web Names Come From? A Seattle Times article discusses where some of the weird web names come from for popular sites like Flickr, Ning, Orkut, Yahoo and more. It seems pretty obvious, they didn't want to spend the money to purchase a category-killer name, but either way, the brands are still very successful. And the owners of similar sounding names that... Fusible.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 15:24 Interview with Sabine Dolderer, CEO of DENIC - Germany’s .de ccTLD Today’s interview is with Sabine Dolderer, the CEO of DENIC which runs Germany’s .de ccTLD. Most of my readers are well aware that Germany’s extension crushes other ccTLDs in aftermarket sales. .de names are also the most widely registered ccTLD. .cn names have had a nice run in the last year and might even have m... Rick Latona - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 15:3 Yahoo Reports: Revenue Down 13%, Profit’s Up Yahoo! reported revenues of $1,573 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, a decrease of 13% from the second quarter of 2008, after the close of the market today. Excluding the impact of currency rate The Domains - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 18:45 SnapNames Showcase Auction Ends Today Snapnames auction ends today; more auction activity in the weeks ahead. SnapNames’ first “Showcase Auction”, a new monthly online domain name auction, ends today at about 12:15 PDT. Auctions that receive bids in the final minutes will be extended. At the time of writing, about 40% of domain names have met their rese... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 10:33 Bit.ly Starts Warning About Malicious Links TechCrunch alert:Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility.Bit.ly has started warning users of potentially malicious sites, based on information it has about URLs being shortened. For example, if you click ... The Frager factor - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 23:31 Paychex Can’t Set up DNS Correctly Major company can’t get domain names to resolve without www. Last week I went to payroll processor Paychex’s web site, typing Paychex.com into my internet browser. After a few seconds I got an error message “Network Timeout. The server at paychex.com is taking too long to respond.” The problem? I didn’t ... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:2 Registrar And Market Place Access These are tough times and every dollar you spend counts. You have to find out ways to avoid spending those extra dollars whenever possible or if you feel you can’t cut down the dollar then make sure atleast you have more than one reason for your spending. Choosing a Registrar is significant as it also LazyDomaining.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 13:10 Woolite.US Some nice TV ads airing Woolite.US manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser .Overseas companies have been the first to set up sites targeting America with it's official country extension .US. Mister US - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 19:54 How To Remove Bido.com Auction Notifications Since Bido.com has now opened it’s auction system to more then one domain name a day, getting ALL the notifications for Each domain auction daily in my email box is getting annoying. The basic settings in Bido is to get email notification 1 hour before an auction starts which is a nice reminder and I DotWeekly - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 14:18 Apple (AAPL) Posts Record Earnings -- AGAIN A bright spot in an otherwise dim economy. Stock @$150 regains 50% of the market loss in October market blood bath. MLB live 'AT Bat" application for iPhone. Apple sells 52 million iPhones... most of them recently. MOREPhoto: Apple The Frager factor - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 22:33 SnapNames Summer Stimulus Auction Ends Today At 3:15pm EDT The SnapNames Summer Stimulus auction is ending today at 3:15pm EDT, with many domains still available at great prices. Of the 80 domains up for auction there’s only about $35,000 worth of bids on half the names.  I’m sure many people are waiting until the  last minute. Forty of the domains still haven’t garnered a ... Domain Name News - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 9:13 NSI Launches Whois App For iPhone, But It’s Fails To Impress, Compared To Existing Whois Apps Network Solutions announced today that its launched a its free whois app for the iphone. First the official announcement then my comments and comparison other free whois apps currently available “”"The app developed by Network Solutions allows iPhone users to use the company’s WHOIS database search tool from anywher... The Domains - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:27 A nos ventes manquées En voulant faire quelques courses sur Sedo aujourd’hui, quelque chose (de pourtant courant) m’a particulièrement marqué. Sans avoir fait suffisamment d’offres pour pouvoir en tirer une statistique parlante, j’ai toutefois été frappé par le nombre de mes ardeurs qui se sont vues refroidies par un prix minimum d... Blogodomaines.com - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 14:43 Rod Beckstrom officially appointed as ICANN’s new CEO Rod Beckstrom was officially appointed as ICANN’s new CEO during the ICANN board meeting in Sydney, Australia in June 2009. As part of his vision for ICANN, Beckstrom has highlighted 4 areas of primary focus including Internationalization of Domain Names, efforts in the deployment of DNSSEC, and the introduction of new generic ... IDN Focus - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 9:10 Domaining.com - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Domainers.org - A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  |  F  |  G  |  H  |  I  |  J  |  K  |  L  |  M  |  N  |  O  |  P  |  Q  |  R  |  S  |  T  |  U  |  V  |  W  |  X  |  Y  |  Z THANKS to DomainTools Whois for helping us promote the domain industry and Estibot.com for domain valuation technology.