After 16 months, we figured it was time for a makeover. April 16th has been a very special day for me for the last 21 years. 21 years ago today I married my beautiful bride Judi. So its a perfect day for a remix and a relaunch of thedomains.com As you can see, the logo has changed, along with the layout, the design, the fonts and after many inquires, my right hand man, Adam Matuzich,  … [Read more...]

Last week,  Goldman Sachs (GS) sent an Cease and Desist letter,  demanding that blogger Mike Morgan take down his gripe site GoldmanSachs666.com, saying that the site violated Goldman's intellectual property rights and that the domain constituted trademark infringement. The "666" in the domain's refers to address of Goldman's headquarters in New York. So instead of waiting for GS's UDRP to … [Read more...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo, is preparing another significant round of job cuts. According to the report, the cuts are likely to affect several hundred employees on top of 2,400 jobs cut last year. The Journal says the cuts could be announced as soon as next week, when Yahoo reports its first quarter earnings. … [Read more...]

Moniker.com tonight, released a tentative list of domains for it's live domain auction, which will be held as part of the TRAFFIC Silicon Valley show later this month. The Moniker.com auction will be held on Wednesday April 29 at 3 PM PST. Remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com. The list seems to include some excellent domains, including many one word .com, at very reasonable … [Read more...]

The Internet Commerce Association, (ICA) of which we are a gold member, just posted its comments to ICANN on the 2nd draft of the Guidebook on the new gTLD's, which as we keep telling you has issues which currently would impact domains you now own. The comment period closes today. You still have time to comment by e-mail your comments to: 2gtld-guide@icann.org.  Remember to check your e-mail … [Read more...]

According to MSNBC.com Dell, Inc. refused to spend $750 a month to lease the domain Adamo.com prior to releasing new ultrathin laptop. Dell was offered the $750 a month deal by Bill Sweetman, General Manager of Tucows owned Yummydomains.com. """"Yummy Domains General Manager Bill Sweetman said he initially approached Dell in February, about three weeks before the launch. Yummy Domains had … [Read more...]

Time Warner cable has been talking about it for quite a while and now seems to have a plan in place to for a variable pricing, depending on amount of bandwidth a customer uses. The pricing could leave consumers paying up to $150 a month for Internet access. Here is the proposed pricing according to Engadget.com: A limited package for "light users" at 1GB/month, 768KB down / 128KB up, … [Read more...]