Elliot Silver’s 1st photo as a dad!

Domain investor Elliot Silver became a father for the first time on Thursday, after wife Karen delivered a beautiful, healthy baby girl – Hailey. Elliot spent 24 hours with his wife and newborn at the clinic, and the Silver family is now back home. Here’s a photo of Elliot – clearly tired, sleep-deprived and scruffy, [...]

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DNForum closes trademark sales threads down – What does Flippa do?

Popular domain forum DNForum.com – voted top domain forum for 2011 – continues its firm practice of disallowing and closing down sales threads that offer trademark violations for sale. An example can be seen at this thread, where an obvious Google trademark domain was being offered for sale. The thread was closed with the notification [...]

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Mega Millions jackpot buys 500 top domains ever sold!

In a few minutes, the craze about the much publicized Mega Millions jackpot of $640 million will hopefully end, with a winner of this astounding amount of cash. Since the cash option will be a payout of $462 million, after a 25% tax haircut the lucky winner will be left with approximately $346 million dollars. [...]

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Domain quirk: UncleTom.com

There are domains and there are domains; for fun, we are starting a new column of commenting on developed domains that display something strange or creative, odd or otherwise unrelated to what the domain represents. UncleTom.com is one such example; the picture on the web site’s single page depicts king Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and [...]

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Sedo mixup: Periods and commas

In Europe, the period “.” is used in numbers to separate thousands, the way that in the US the comma “,” is utilized. Reversely, in Europe the comma “,” is used instead of a period “.” to denote decimal places. Confused yet? Sedo is a German company but with offices in the UK and the [...]

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Trayvon hood: Trademark application challenges that of killed teen’s mother

The mother of Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old student that was killed a month ago while walking home from a convenience store, applied for two trademarks related to her late son: I AM TRAYVON and JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON. Both of those marks were applied for a range of digital materials, such as DVDs, CDs [...]

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Face .com application can now guess your age!

Start-up Face.com is a pioneer in face recognition software. Despite attempts by Facebook to identify itself with the word “face“, the Face.com start-up maintains established IP attorney John Berryhill as the attorney in trust for the domain name. Face.com just announced yet another improvement of its software app, which will blow everyone’s mind off: age [...]

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Elliot Silver becomes a father!

Domain investor Elliot Silver and his wife Karen are the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl, as of earlier today. Congratulations to Karen and Elliot for this great addition to their life! Being pro-active, Elliot registered Hailey Silver dot com

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Correction: Domain Guardians sent out their 2nd newsletter

This is to correct an honest mistake in our article about the Domain Guardians; they sent out their 2nd domain brokerage newsletter yesterday, not the first one. You can view the 1st issue of the newsletter here.

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Facebook .XXX will offer new home to misbehaving members

One of the unique elements of dot .XXX is its clear and up-front statement: it’s adult. Even before its launch, the newest gTLD on the planet became the target of those that do not want users to peruse adult material on the Internet. But Mark Zuckerberg now plans to monetize the adult traffic of millions [...]

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Mike Mann in control of Trayvon .com – So what?

Domain investor Mike Mann is known for his constant acquisitions of domain names, particularly single word and two word compound .com domains. One of the names recently in the news is that of 17 year old student, Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida by a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch vigilante, George Zimmerman. [...]

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Domain Guardians: First batch of brokered domains sent to subscribers

Domain Guardians, the Australia-based provider of specialized services to domainers, sent out its first newsletter of brokered domains today, a month after launching the service. The list contains several quality dot .com and dot .net domains, such as Machinery.com and HandTools.com Domain Guardians is the brain-child of Mike Robertson and Jen Sale, both formerly of [...]

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