I’ve spent the last few weeks pondering, reworking a list of of all the gTLDs, in an effort to rank them from top to bottom, left to right, and everything between. Doing so, I thought, might give us a better snapshot of the industry and potential areas of growth – of which there are a [...] Continue reading →

For a domain broker, it is the moment you dream of. Hanging outside a great club, dressed in costumes, having a drink, talking things over. Guy I’m chatting with is the Marketing Director of an industry leader – an industry for which I am brokering the best domain name. The best, by far. I explain [...] Continue reading →

Ahoy out there to all you domainers…Hello? Hello? Anybody left out there? Oh well, I do enjoy my own company and tooting my own horn, so I will continue with the train of thought, the main query: are you going to TRAFFIC? I, sadly, am not, which means all you out there waiting to catch [...] Continue reading →

What happens to two (or 13 in the case of .APP) applicants that have applied for the exact same string set?  This is not just a whimsical musing but a real multimillion dollar question for the hundreds of gTLD applications that have direct competition for the same string.  That competition could result in months of [...] Continue reading →

I still remember, back in the day, when Flash was first introduced by Macromedia to designers and developers – it looked, smelled and tasted like the future so I jumped right in, built an entire Flash site based on one of my products at the time, a line of licensed Andy Warhol cigars and humidors. [...] Continue reading →

The new gTLD system brings with it a host of new questions for intellectual property rights holders.  Will businesses need to buy hundreds of new domains just to protect their trademark rights?  ICANN has not ignored those concerns.  In addition to greatly expanding the available namespace, the introduction of new gTLDs will coincide with the [...] Continue reading →

What is a nonprofit corporation with $350 million in cash to do? If that nonprofit is ICANN, the answer is apparently “keep it.”  After receiving approximately $350 million in new gTLD application fees, at $185,000 per application, ICANN has no plans for offering a refund to the applicants.  In the public forum at the ICANN [...] Continue reading →