Just a quick note to thank all of you our readers; the commentators; and all of you that voted TheDomains.com as the Best Domain Blog at TRAFFIC yesterday. Both Judi and I are quite touched to receive the honor. Special thanks to the organizers of the TRAFFIC show Rick, Howard and to Barbara and Alina, Ray and Kim without whose very hard work the TRAFFIC show would not be possible. Also … [Read more...]
UPDATED: TRAFFIC Auction Nets $240K As .XXX Accounts For $77K
UPDATE: I was informed by the owner of the domain names that sold "conditionally" at the auction, MovieTheater.com and MovieTheatre.com for $45,000 that he did NOT accept the lower sales price and therefore these domain did NOT sell and have been removed and the sales figures adjusted. The live domain name Auction from the TRAFFIC show just concluded with about $240,000 in sales of which $77K … [Read more...]
Domainfest Party Moves To House Of Blues & Early Bird $995 Rate Ends Friday
According to a press release just put out by Oversee.net the organizers of DomainFest domain name show conference, the main party for the conference which had been held at the Playboy Mansion is moving to the House Of Blues. The PR lays out all of the social activities of the conference and also serves as a reminder that the early bird registration rate of $995 ends on Friday September … [Read more...]
Next Up: NewDomains.Org Conference in Munich Next Week
Tommorow we start heading out to Munich for the NewDomains.org conference. The conference is expecting around 250+ attendees many of which have never attended a conference on the new gTLD program according to the show orgainzers. As you can see from below its a pretty packed confernece with a lot of the top people in the field coming to chat about the new program Dr. Stephen Crocker the … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: Which Domains With A Reserve Price of $100K+ Will Sell At The Domainfest/SnapNames Auction?
The Domainfest NY meetup auction ends on September 20th at 3:15pm EST so on this labor day weekend we thought we would put up a poll asking you which domain(s) with a reserve of 100K or more will sell at the auction. There are 45 domain names with a reserve price of $100K or more, so we are giving you 5 picks but you must make all 5 at one time. Of course you can also vote that "none will … [Read more...]
No Online Bidding From Live Domain Auction At The TRAFFIC Conference
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just announced there will NOT be any online bidding at the live domain name auction held at the conference. Of course for many of the first domain TRAFFIC conferences there was no online bidding, but later shows had online bidding through either SnapNames.com or Proxybid. It seems phone and even some sort of text bidding will be allowed, but it … [Read more...]
John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: “I Don’t Think Domain Names Are Necessary”
John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier foundation was the keynote speaker at the Dot Nxt show this morning and pretty much blasted the new gTLD program, ICANN and domain names in general. ""I can't see how expanding the domain space its going to be to the benefit of the internet." "ICANN is going to be sitting on a billion dollars from application fees, escrow fees, and I don't see how … [Read more...]