“Dumb Americans” buying stolen domain names

Let’s face it: the times of great deals regarding the so-called “coinage domains“, are long gone. Back in 2004-2006 one could still get great deals for LLL .com and LLL .net domain names at various domain forums. The definition of a “great deal” is subjective, but anything under $2,500 for a LLL .com and $300 […]

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Newb domainers: Deleted domains aren’t “aged” or “17 years old”

A post proclaiming that the domain name CanadianWebmaster.com is “aged” and “17 years old” caught our attention; its seller pointed us to Archive.org in order to justify this inaccurate claim. Buyers that are being told a domain is “old” or registered in the 1990’s (or earlier) are strongly advised to take this type of sales […]

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Sahar Sarid, Mugshots.com and the DomainTools mystery records

Domain investor, Sahar Sarid, “mysteriously” disappeared from active domain investments two years ago. The popular domainer decided to travel the world and according to various reputable sources such as Mike Berkens at The Domains, he’s doing quite well on his planned sabbatical. It’s not a secret that many years ago, Sahar Sarid owned the domain […]

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DomainTools rolls out updated Brand Monitor tool

DomainTools has sent out the following press release, regarding an expanded and newly renamed tool, ‘Brand Monitor‘. Dear Brand Alert User, DomainTools strives to give our members the most valuable and relevant data at all times. We are continuously evaluating our services to better meet our customers’ needs. Brand Alert is one service that was […]

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Thank you, DomainTools

A little over three years ago, DomainTools gave me a call inquiring about advertising opportunities on DomainGang, which was then barely two months old. They immediately seized on the opportunity to secure the premium, top right ad spot and thus became corporate sponsors. Many were shocked to hear the news. DomainTools is the definitive WHOIS […]

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Facebook launches Graph Search without the .com

Facebook announced the launch of its latest major upgrade, called Graph Search. The feature is essentially a smart, local search engine that will be able to return meaningful results – searching billions of content items available on Facebook. The results are personalized and follow the security and privacy features selected by its users. There is […]

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DomainTools sold for $365.25 million dollars

DomainTools – the top WHOIS tool for all domainers – has been sold in an all cash deal totaling $365.25 million dollars. That’s $1 million for every day of the year! “We are beyond words, and definitely looking forward to further improving the experience of our users,” said the company CEO, Tim Chen. “That’s the […]

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DomainTools: Free game of Hangman for everyone!

DomainTools – the industry leader in WHOIS information management – introduced a new, fun online game this morning. “We are rolling out DomainTools Hangman(tm) which is a fun way to process data,” said Monica Gordon, Marketing manager for DomainTools. “By combining the research metrics and our proprietary data storage algorithms, we can offer domainers eager […]

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Ho, ho, ho! Santa’s back in town already with DomainTools

We know. You haven’t had turkey just yet, and Santa is already here, looking for milk and cookies in exchange for goodies. DomainTools – Santa’s favorite WHOIS tool – is offering a FREE professional membership, worth $500. That’s a lot of WHOIS queries, for a full year – and a lot of savings to spend […]

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DomainShield .com sold – Justifies own name

The domain name DomainShield.com – registered in 1999, according to top WHOIS tool, DomainTools – was sold on NameJet a couple of days ago. Sure enough, it justifies its own name by having a “domain shield” plastered on its contact information, but those familiar with NameJet user names will not have a problem guessing who […]

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Facebook bully exposed thanks to DomainTools’ historic WHOIS

Using DomainTools is a daily necessity; for Kimberly Smith, mother of 17 year old Tracy, it was a solution sent from heaven. “The days were so harsh, Tracy would come home crying after kids would say mean things to her at school” says Kimberly Smith. “She was being bullied on Facebook by this clique of […]

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Big Data Pricer: Sedo owns the .com – thank goodness!

Yesterday, we broke the news of Sedo rolling out a brand new interface for adding domains to one’s portfolio. A feature called “Big Data Pricer” automatically attempts to tag a price to the domain, based on a secret domain evaluation formula that calculates its worth. When we tested it at 7:30pm eastern yesterday, the Big […]

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