Elliot Silver to become a Dad

As mentioned by domain investor, Elliot Silver in his twitter timeline: “I don’t know if I mentioned this publicly yet, but baby girl Silver is due April 5.” Congratulations Elliot and to your wife as well. Can’t wait for the first pictures and make sure you secure her name in dot com 😀

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Smart marketing: Domain.com capitalizes on the 11/11/11 craze

Yesterday, we posted about GoDaddy and its 11 cent domain promotion. While it seemed too good to be true, it was a clear indication of what can be done in today’s marketing in order to engage the masses of potential clients. It seems that Domain.com found our article insightfult and decided to seize this unique […]

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Sedo contract verbiage change cost seller six figures

According to a domain investor from Spain, his request to change the verbiage of a Sedo standard contract, cost him a sale worth six figures. Although he chose to sell a domain only, not a domain plus a web site, he noted that the contract incorporated lingo (aka, legal mumbo jumbo) that said the following: […]

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Friday Funny: All about .ME

Congratulations and TGIF to Rick Schwartz, who along with Ammar Kubba and Mike Berkens converted the $6k purchase of Meet.me into a sale of almost half a million dollars 😀

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GoDaddy to offer 11 cent domains on 11/11/11

GoDaddy is about to run its biggest domain promotion since Danica Patrick became the primary GoDaddy girl. According to a leaked memo, tomorrow – Friday, November 11, 2011 – GoDaddy will be offering domains for just 11 cents a piece! “Here at GoDaddy we care about the current state of bad economy in the US”, […]

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Hard at work: ICANN to redesign dated web site

ICANN announced that they are currently redesigning their dated web site and they want your feedback. “A cross-departmental team within ICANN has been working for months to improve the usefulness and the look of ICANN’s main website, ICANN.ORG. The completely redesigned site is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2012.” ICANN is actually […]

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Two years later: Hank Alvarez reaches out to the Domain Community

A few days ago, we wrote how the infamous Hank Alvarez – known as “halvarez” at his heydays as a sniping domain auction participant – appeared to have fallen off the face of the earth. His professional web site, HankAlvarez.com disappeared. Some speculated that Hank Alvarez died or that he finally went to jail for […]

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100 Years of Flight: Canadian federal website displayed porn

According to an article: “A federal government website that promoted Canada’s 100th anniversary of flight is now advertising U.S. and Turkish prostitutes after Transport Canada let its ownership of the domain name lapse.” Apparently, the domain lapsed and someone parked it at Sedo with an adult template! Since the initial outrage, they are now promoting […]

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About bloody time: Nominet to offer multi-year registrations and renewals

Nominet, the holding entity of the .uk namespace announced in a press release today that they will be offering multi-year registrations and renewals. “The new multi-year registration periods will offer greater choice for registrants, who can secure their domain for a longer term without worrying about regular renewals. It also gives registrars the opportunity to […]

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Silly Cybersquatter grabs Greek politician’s domain within minutes

It’s exactly this kind of domain registrations that have been given domainers a bad reputation: registering someone’s full name as a domain name. Within minutes of the announcement that Lucas Papademos takes over as interim prime minister in Greece, some guy from Denmark registered LucasPapademos.com according to DomainTools. Why is this act stupid? First off, […]

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Chat Roulette battle: Will the web site owners lose the trademark?

There’s an update to the ongoing battle for the Chatroulette trademark and it’s not what one would expect it to be. Last month we wrote how the Chatroulette.com operators were a year late in applying for a trademark with the USPTO. A Swiss company applied for the mark first, despite having no ownership of the […]

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