Later this month the .ME Registry will be auctioning off 188 more previously held back premium .ME domain names through Sedo.com. The first premium .ME auction this year tallied approx $340k in sales, led by hotel.me at $25k. This months auction will kick off on May 24th and run through the 31st. This batch is [...] Fortsæt læsning →

An article titled When Should Domain Names Match Company Names? was published this morning by Karen E. Klein on Bloomberg BusinessWeek Small Business Advice Section.   The post was a response to this question asked by a BusinessWeek reader: When is it necessary or advisable for a startup to have a matching dot-com domain name? What should [...] Fortsæt læsning →

Domain Holdings announced yesterday that they have come to an agreement to exclusively broker Attorney.com.  Registered since 1994, Attorney.com is held by Vertical Axis Inc.  The sale is only for the domain name and is priced at $2.25 million.  The domain currently serves up a hitfarm parked page.  According to Alexa it gets some natural [...] Fortsæt læsning →

Mike Awada, a good friend of mine and contributing editor here on NameTalent just released this article on Astounde.com.  If you haven’t yet visited Astounde, it’s definitely worth checking out.  Mike writes about a variety of interesting topics including domain names.  His most recent article titled Why It’s Important To Own Your Name .Com may [...] Fortsæt læsning →

Domaining Europa 2012 event kicked off today at the Sorolla Palace Hotel in Valencia, Spain.  Organized by Dietmar J. Stefitz and Jodi Chamberlain this event promises to provide all participants with a huge dose of domain industry expertise.  The line up of speakers and panelists at the 4th annual Domaining Spain event is stacked with domain [...] Fortsæt læsning →

Someone asked me the other day what the highest .US domain sale was. I honestly had no idea so I started my search in the DNJournal archives and on NameBio and DNSalePrice. I wasn’t expecting a lot but I was a little surprised when I saw how few .US domain sales reported even [...] Fortsæt læsning →

Colleen Taylor of TechCrunch just reported that Ditto.me website and app has been acquired by Groupon as announced earlier today on Ditto.me blog.  There was no mention of the financial details of deal. Så, what does Groupon have in store for the one year old startup, Ditto.me? Nothing. They will be shutting off the service [...] Fortsæt læsning →