The news is full of stories the last couple of days on how during the the last domain seizure "raid" by Homeland Security 84,000 Innocent website wound up getting shut down. You can read some mainstream coverage on this issue here, here, and here. However on the domainer side of things I have to give credit to Dotweekly.com who was first to pick up on this story and find out about all of … [Read more...]
Parked.com: .Co, .Tv and .nz ccTLD’s Can Now Be Monetized By Yahoo/Bing: .XXX Next
According to a post on Parked.com's Forum made today by the President of Parked.com: "co, .tv, and .nz cctlds are now allowed to be monetized via Yahoo/Bing" "As of Monday, February 14, 2011, the .co, .tv, and .nz cctlds can now be monetized by Yahoo/Bing. If you already had domains in one of these cctlds in your account we are automically sending them to Yahoo/Bing by default. If you … [Read more...]
Hundreds Of News Outlets Are Now Covering The “Playboy Plague”
There are now several hundreds of news outlets that are covering what ABC called the Playboy Plague or what domainers have been calling the domainer flu, that struck at Domainfest Newspapers from the LaTimes to the Toronto Sun,to The New York Post to the Village Voice and even the Wall Street Journal have covered the story. TV stations from ABC to KABC To TMZ have also covered the … [Read more...]
KeyNote From .Nxt Meeting: Juan Calle “.Com Is Really A Typo Of .Co”
As the 1st .Nxt show in came to a close in San Francisco today, Juan Calle the CEO of the .Co registry took the stage and spoke on the future of domain names and the opportunity that new gTLD's will bring. Mr. Calle stated that the size of the opportunity is huge." "Relative to the growth of the Internet the registration of domain names is quite low" "Presently the ratio of domain name … [Read more...]
Gary Kremen Former Owner Of Sex.com and Match.com & The 900th Person to Ever Use The Internet, Live From the .Nxt Meeting
Gary Kremen Anyone who has been in the domain business for a while probably knows the story of Mr. Kremen fairly well. Mr. Kremen is the former owner of Sex.com and Match.com, the subject of at least one book and the original registrant of some of the best .com's on earth. Although I have know of Mr. Kremen for well over 10 years, this is the 1st time I have had a chance to hear him tell … [Read more...]
BuyOwner.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars
According to the Chicago Tribune the real estate site, BuyOwner.com sold today out of Bankruptcy court for a cool million. "It was once billed as the nation's largest for-sale-by-owner operation and according to the story, the company's revenue declined from more than $28 million in 2008 to less than $250,000 last July. "Since July, the company generated about $588,000 in revenue but … [Read more...]
Domains Back On The Front Page Today Of The New York Times & Washington Post
Two of the largest newspapers in the country have Front Page stories about domain names and its all about new gTLD and new ccTLD's like .Co and .Me Yes I know a LOT of you are getting tired of stories about new gTLD's and .Co but this is what the mainstream press is covering and covering hard, so on to the stories The New York Times article entitled "For Countries That Own Shorter Web Site … [Read more...]