At both the Ricklatona.com auction at TRAFFIC and the DomainFest live domain name auction last week, several .mx domains sold for high four to mid four figures. I noted that today on Bido.com there are quite a few one word, .mx (country code for Mexico) domains, many of which start at $28 … [Read more...]

Is The Internet Commerce Association (the "ICA) dead? Phil Corwin who's Washington Law firm has represented the Association at ICANN meetings, and through its various committees and workshops, and represented domainers interests in matters from the Snowe Bill to the Kentucky Domain Seizure case, to the Uniform Rapid Suspension, contract with the ICA ended on December 31, 2009. No one has … [Read more...]

The next three weeks is going to be really busy for the domain industry and crazy personally. I'm off to Vegas today for TRAFFIC, then on Monday to DomainFest. By the time I return to Florida by the following Saturday I will have sat through three live auctions (ricklatona.com's TRAFFIC auction, Moniker's DomainFest Low Reserve Auction and Main Auction the following day), countless sessions, … [Read more...]

According to ChinaDaily.com, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said they were going to allow individuals once again to register ".cn" domain names. Last month China announced that only registered companies inside China could own .cn domains. "It's a trend that individuals register their own domain names," said Qi Lin, assistant deputy from CNNIC. "We are now working … [Read more...]

Godaddy.com got to love their marketing strategy. If you don't love it you at least have to admire it. In its newest Super Bowl ad (they bought 2), called "Movies" featuring Danica Patrick recreating some very famous sexy movie scenes. Patrick first re-creates actress Kelly LeBrock's initial appearance in "Weird Science," wearing a half-shirt and panties. Patrick tells two guys viewing … [Read more...]

Welcome to 2010. A new year and a new decade. What's in store? Here are the greatest challenges I think we will face this year as an industry. Legal. The Kentucky domain seizure case is still ongoing and just a couple of weeks ago the Commonwealth said they are now going to add individuals and companies as additional defendants to the suit. Just this month, the state of Utah has … [Read more...]

In preparing for a few "end of year" type posts, I realized not only are we about to say goodbye to 2009, but to the decade in which domaining was basically born. The 2000's, what a decade it was. Filled with huge, almost non-stop life changing news, events, and technologies Even before the decade started, millions of people thought the world was going to come to a halt when computers hit … [Read more...]