It’s a year away, but dates are finalized. For a while there were too many domainer-targeted domain conferences. Then the pendulum swung the other way. TRAFFIC is adding an additional show in 2013, and today it announced the final dates. The show will begin Wednesday, May 29th in the evening. It will conclude with breakfast [...] Продолжить чтение →

USOC claims person continues to infringe on its trademarks. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Alan Bachand, an individual with whom the organization has a history when it comes to domain names. Обратно в 2009 the USOC objected to Bachand’s use of the domain name OlympicsBestHotels.com to pitch hotels [...] Продолжить чтение →

Ранее в этом году, Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu announced that they were considering adding a Las Vegas TRAFFIC conference to the 2013 calendar (in addition to the October conference in Florida). TRAFFIC has been held in Las Vegas before, but it has been a few years since the last event (I think the last one [...] Продолжить чтение →

No doubt in my mind that this has been a fantastic quarter for those that have a solid domain portfolio and looking to sell.  Prices have come back and solid names are coming out of the woodwork, even on the forums.  I actually had to hire my wife to be my accountant.  Never in my [...] Продолжить чтение →

Vint Cerf is critical of plans by various countries over a battle for the internet that is opening at the International Telecommunications Union in this opinion piece in the New York Times. Cerf writes that the ITU “is conducting a review of the international agreements governing telecommunications and aims to expand its regulatory authority to [...] Продолжить чтение →

My Mom is not a domainer. She cannot even program the VCR. She doesn’t have an email address and ‘Google’ sounds like a ‘ghoul’ to her. Being a septuagenarian, my Mom is dependent on others, despite her persistence with things. When people age, there is no magic substitute to do the work one used to [...] Продолжить чтение →

[news release] Today on May 12, 2012 Russian Cyrillic ccTLD .РФ celebrates its second birthday. Two years ago domain .РФ became one of the first IDN-domains in the world on May 12, 2012 registers of root server of global domain addresses received an entry about Cyrillic domain .РФ and on November 11, 2010 domain started [...] Продолжить чтение →