Tucows.com is the lastest registrar that will be ending its in house drop auctions of it own expired domains.
The official announcement should be made within the next two weeks.
Tucows.com had been retaining an unknown portion of it own expired domains, then placing the rest through its own auction system.
It is unknown at this point whether […]

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According to a e-mail we received today, Pool.com is starting premium .com auctions, starting with the domain, frustrated.com, with the extremely inflated (in our opinion) reserve price of $60K.
Hopefully future auctions will contain better domains at more reasonable reserve prices as we ar not impressed with this domain at this price.
Here is a copy […]

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Most of us domainers travel quite a bit to shows, for business or pleasure and when we go, our Laptop and Cell phone goes with.
In light of the upcoming Domainers Meeting in Paris and the ICANN meeting next month, I know a lot of US based domainers are travelling out of the country.
A recent article […]

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A quick check found these names currently for sale in the highest 50K range on GoDaddys TDNAM.com. It is outrageous and unethical that GoDaddy is allowing these obvious TM violations to be promoted on their site. A six year old could tell you these names would not last two seconds in UDRP arbitration. As an […]

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According to a post by momlogic.com, there is a trend for parents to name their children based on whether the name is avalible as a .com.
In part, the story says:
“Registering a domain name year-by-year can be costly for 18 years — and who knows what’s going to be out there when your child is of […]

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In a post at the SearchEngineJournal.com, they discuss if having a keyword in the domain name that relates to the topic your trying to get a search engine ranking for, helps you get a better position.
The basic conclusion is that in Google not so much.
In Yahoo somewhat more and in Microsoft Live Search, Yes.
“”””if […]

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What a difference a year makes.
The live auction at the TRAFFIC show netted only $2,555,000 in gross sales
The most lively domain of the day was one we picked out last week, postalcodes.com, which rode all the way from a $1,000 reserve, to a $42,000 selling price.
Reportedly there were only 75 people in attendance at the […]

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Tommorow at 2pm EST Moniker.com will hold a Live Auction from the TRAFFIC show in Orlando featuring just under 250 premium domains.
Remote live bidding is avaliable through SnapNames.com
We are looking for a total of $2.5M-$5M, unless israel.com sell’s which would not surprise me.
The time of the auction is not going to help.  Its on Friday […]

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Yahoo postponed it’s annual meeting which was schudeled for July 3, to an undetermined date in late July, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
This is the second time Yahoo has postponed its annual meeting, usually held in May or June. The previous delay, announced in March, gave Yahoo more time […]

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Google co-founder Larry Page said Thursday the Internet search leader opposed a Microsoft-Yahoo deal because it would monopolize the online communications market, stifle innovation and curb competition.
But he discounted the idea that an advertising deal between Google and Yahoo would present any potential antitrust problems.
Page said a successful Microsoft-Yahoo deal would have closed “a lot […]

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