After moving my entire portfolio away from Sedo in October of last year, I finally stopped receiving those lowball $60 queries via the GoDaddy TDNAM. No hard feelings; Internet Traffic pays more for parked domains, and offers a multitude of tools to maximize your domain sales ROI. There is one thing, however, that is done [...] Continue reading →

The process of reclaiming stolen domain names isn’t easy; the main culprit appears to be the lack of a solid process that would handle such cases. With ICANN rolling out dozens of new gTLDs, it’s important to ensure not only the security of the new domain names that will emerge, but to improve and streamline [...] Continue reading →

It’s been almost five years since I released some information on domain security, as implemented by Network Solutions in the past; those were the days that domain registration was a monopoly. In a post titled “Sedo scammers take advantage of email predictability“, I referenced the method that domain hijackers used in the late 90′s to [...] Continue reading →

As Elliot blogged about, Network Solutions has changed their process of transferring out domain names. Just like its sister company, Register.com, Network Solutions now looks into every request to transfer out domains, manually sending out the authorization code after three days. While some might think this is for increased security, it’s definitely adding frustration to [...] Continue reading →

A little over a decade ago, I learned a valuable lesson about why the reserve price exists. Having won a non-reserve auction on eBay for a LLL.com that ended up being sold for approximately $157 (not a typo), I listed it for sale a few weeks later. Feeling overly confident about its closing price, I [...] Continue reading →

When I attended TRAFFIC Las Vegas in 2010, it was my first time in Sin City and my second time attending the TRAFFIC domain conference. Las Vegas kept all of its promises: very little sleeping, lots of drinking and gambling, lots of womanizing. Luckily, that part forever stayed in Vegas! TRAFFIC kept its promises as [...] Continue reading →

It’s a very simple argument, really: don’t make an offer on a domain, that is tied to some silly disclaimer. Most lawyers will tell you that an offer on paper - real or virtual – is a binding offer. Want to invalidate such an offer? Accompany it with some made-up mumbo-jumbo that seeks various conditions [...] Continue reading →