Most people are aware of a search engine technology merger having begun between Yahoo and Bing. Despite sharing and cross-referencing each other’s search engine results, I am seeing distinctly separate page rank for the same search terms when examining Yahoo vs. Bing. Bing, in particular, seems to give high priority to Yellowpage and/or Yellowbook listings. I find this odd [...] Continue reading →

As an observer of domain name news and as a domain investor/developer, I check the number of total domain registrations over time to identify rates of adoption. One might predict that domain registrations would have decreased over the course of the economic recession during the last 2 years. But this is not the case. They [...] Continue reading →

Ron Jackson of DNJournal wrote about a significant sale in the geo-targeted domain name category. Rob Grant, who owns a large portfolio of City+Real Estate domains, sold ParkCityRealEstate.com for $60,000 to a real estate firm in Park City, Utah. Ron explained in his DNJournal piece that Mr. Grant had used GoDaddy to broker the deal. [...] Continue reading →

Menius Enterprises acquired the domain name Methadone.US some months ago. I have been developing the domain into a methadone treatment information site using the DevHub website builder. Chemical dependency is a prevalent illness in American society and many of us have encountered it in one form or another, either directly or indirectly. Methadone is a very specific medication-assisted treatment approach used [...] Continue reading →

The Neustar registry has created a new logo for the .US web address. The new logo contains a fitting new tagline too, “America’s Address“. The .US domain name space currently enjoys just over 1.76 million total registrations, most of which originated with U.S. businesses or U.S. citizens due to the necessity of meeting nexus requirements for United States residency [...] Continue reading →

PremiumDomains.biz usually write about high demand generic domain names since these are the stock-in-trade of the domain industry, command the highest prices, and they also fuel a good portion of internet commerce. However, there exist creative and fanciful domain names which are so “catchy” that they can take on a unique life of their own, such as [...] Continue reading →

Hotel domain names are a specialty niche in the domain name market. There are generic super premiums like Hotels.com and there are other pure geo-targeted domain names like MiamiHotels.biz. Hotels.eu sold via Sedo in 2006 for $329,509 and exemplifies the high value attached to the “hotels” keyword in the domain name sales industry. SydneyHotels.com was acquired earlier [...] Continue reading →