Webfest Global 2013 Conference to Be Held February 5-7, 2013 in Santa Monica, California LOS ANGELES, California (October 18, 2012) — DomainSponsor®, the online direct navigation traffic monetization unit of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINfest® series of domestic and international conferences, announced today that online registration is now open for its [...] Continue reading →

As just announced by ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé at the ICANN 45 in Toronto today, ICANN launched a first version of MyICANN.org created to aggregate, organize and personalize all of the available information from ICANN. Explore the latest news from across the ICANN community. Pick out what’s important to you and have it delivered [...] Continue reading →

Over 4 years ago, I wrote a post about the results of the 2008 TRAFFIC auction. That auction did over $4.3 million in sales.  Can you imagine ?  Back then the entire industry was looking for a barometer of the state of the business during a tough time, and the results were considered dismal with [...] Continue reading →

Canadian company Irex Corp,  just launched www.DomainNames.ca, a marketplace for selected domains from their own portfolio, such as ez.ca, cruise.ca and usedcars.ca. Since 2001, Irex Corp has been offering website services to both consumers and business interests through numerous verticals including real estate, education, web design and philanthropic initiatives. Related posts: DOT Registry applies [...] Continue reading →

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Architelos, Inc., a domain name industry consulting and managed services provider and Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), said today Donuts will adopt NameSentry, Architelos’ software-as-a-service platform for detecting and mitigating domain name abuse. The patent-pending NameSentry application protects new gTLDs from phishing, malware, spam, botnets and [...] Continue reading →

And here are the winners of the 2012 Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards as they were announced at a Brunch during the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show this morning: Best new monetizing Solution DomainPower.com Best overall Domain Solution Sedo.com Best Domain Blog DomainSherpa.com (Cyger) The “we get it” award SalesForce.com Developer [...] Continue reading →

The live domain auction for TRAFFIC is live and going . We’re live blogging.  Missed the first few.  We’ve got 100 lots or so to go through.  The audio is awful and the auctioneer sounds like he’s got marbles in his mouth so please forgive us if we get any of these wrong. UPDATE:  Now [...] Continue reading →