Editorial

Ron Jackson meant to write: Doom and Gloom in the Conference market!

March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

DNJournal just posted an analysis of the past few years, as experienced from the perspective of a conference participant and observer. The summary of it is at the end of page 2 and one needs to read between the lines of the report to obtain it; a difficult task, as it’s laden with photographs of... [Read the full story]

Famous Domainers

Ismail Kurcu – Confessions of a Domain Criminal

March 5, 2010 · 5 Comments

Are you 100% sure your domains are safe? When Ismail Kurcu goes online, it’s always someone else’s expense. The 22 year old student from Ankara, Turkey uses a credit card generator as the means for paying for a brand new Internet connection every month. It takes 45 days for the Internet... [Read the full story]

Stories & Manuals

MasterDating – Domainer Dating Package

February 12, 2010 · 7 Comments

Stay ahead in the dating game. Find available women easier and faster. Use the MasterDating package to research and conquer women that you can flip, hold or cuddle with at night. You can even use it to start your own “Dating” service. You can make it happen with MasterDating! Hi. My name... [Read the full story]

Short News

Congratulations Guns!

March 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

So Guns.com sold for $800k. That’s awesome. ‘Guns’ happens to be my middle name. By the way, don’t miss out on the steamy sale of Risque.org! Read More →

Risque.org – Love For Sale

March 8, 2010 · 3 Comments

Risque had some amazing female assets on display. It was yet another slow-moving Friday night, the online crowd filled with newly-found energy reserved for the end of the week. On the domain forums, lame domains for sale everywhere; twitter was crammed with the usual RT’s from boring, self-entertained... [Read more]

Domain News

Exhibitionists of the World unite on ChatRoulette.com

Time is on our side, yes it is. By now you’re probably familiar with the new time-waster, among the likes of twitter, facebook, tumblr and other platforms of so-called “social interaction” online. It’s ChatRoulette.com and it should come with adult content warning. Perhaps the 17 year old Russian...

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Who Bought Retweet.com for $250k – Are they ready to face the Trademark Squad?

Who is the secret winner of the retweet.com auction? A solid domain & underlying technology sale has been reported on Mashable and announced by DNN; the sale occurred on Flippa – a selling platform that mainly caters to developed web sites. The apparent sale – which still needs to be confirmed –...

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How xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Sold for $2.7 million dollars

Lots of money for the sensible domainers. It doesn’t happen every day that a domain sells for a whopping $2.7 million dollars, in a market that is hit by a hefty dip in the global economy. Against all odds, ************.*** made it. The niche market of ******* has been doing rather well in the past fourteen...

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As Domainers return from the Kilimanjaro expedition, one is missing!

Missing domainer, Boris, sent this image via satellite. He's currently in the Himalayas! The Kilimanjaro expedition of domainers has returned to base, according to DNJournal. With 26 climbers out of 27 making it to the Kilimanjaro summit, one is gone missing. Various sources cite that Boris Doofus of Ukraine, a...

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List of Domains not Dropping this fine Sunday Morning

Domains are dropping like popcorn popping, yo! Let’s face it: domains drop daily and there are tools to find them. If you want the best results, you gotta use the best tools. So here I am, on a fine Sunday morning, ready to give it to you raw - the method to success, that is. Greetings to y’all, domainers...

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Hey, cabron! Puerto Rican Domain Registry charges $1,000 bucks!

Hey cabron! I am proud that .pr domains cost a thousand bucks a year. Puerto Rico might be a US “unincorporated territory” without a state status, but it has several benefits that stem from this unique relationship: No federal income tax. Puerto Rican residents don’t pay Uncle Sam a penny. Nice...

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Bad Economy? Chef Patrick makes some last minute DNCruise changes

The current state of bad economy hasn’t been easy on entrepreneurs, especially those that rely on booking of participants to various events, gatherings and conferences. Recently, we announced how Chef Patrick is launching DNCruise – a floating domainer conference. It seems that financing hit a couple of...

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Ten Reasons why .tel is the next .com

The .tel TLD sports a kewl logo. There are so many reasons why .tel – which was launched by the TelNIC registry a year ago – is the next .com and we had a hard time to trim them down to ten. Ummm… It’s different You can have your own .tel Cool purple logo! TelNIC says it’s great It’s...

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Altamonte Springs renames itself ‘Microsoft, Florida’

Welcome to the city of Altamonte Springs, Florida. Not willing to fall behind in terms of creative and marketing promotions, Microsoft has offered $2.5 million dollars to the city of Altamonte Springs, Florida to rebrand itself as “Microsoft, Florida“. Only recently, Google apparently offered the city...

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Chili2010 – Cook for Clean Water

Chili is the favorite food of many domainers, that find it nutritious and empowering. This coming March 1st, 2010 several Internet professionals (bloggers, gamblers, domain flippers, self-taught photoshop moms etc.) will be having a great cooking gala called “Mega Chilimanjaro” in an effort to gather a...

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Bad Letter LLLL .com spends $62.4 million on another company

Some say that not all letters of the alphabet are created equal. In the world of domaining, letters are somehow attributed a value related to how common they are. Using this concept, common letters are more valuable in combinations of letters, such as LLL .com’s and LLLL .com’s. Some crazy folks even consider...

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More Domainers return to 9 to 5 day jobs

Domaining can be a dirty and unrewarding job. In a shocking reversal of a trend that lasted for at least the past two years, more domainers than ever are returning to their previous 9 to 5 day jobs. Citing a case of a “bad economy”, an astonishing 43% of people delving in domains on a daily basis have...

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