I was just reading Sedo’s recent state of the domain report and these statistics jumped out: the lowest per quarter sales for at least the previous four quarters average sales price of $2,225 46 percent of total sales this past quarter were for domains priced below $500 $500 and $2,500 accounted for 40 percent [...] Continue reading →

I just returned from the TRAFFIC domain conference in South Florida last night and was quite moved to have won the prestigious Domainer of The Year Award for the third time. The REAL honor (and award) is just being nominated, but getting the hat-trick (my third win) left me feeling very proud and humbled indeed. [...] Continue reading →

I’m not sure what it is about summer that makes time spent working, seem to inch-by so slowly. The Olympics were an additional distraction this year, a one-two punch of long days and the spectacle of competition in London may help explain why collective traffic volumes swooned so deeply this year.  Summer is always a [...] Continue reading →

I was recently at the Googleplex in Mountain View, and so was Lady Gaga..  I know why I came but I’m constantly amazed by the parade of famous and not-so-famous who put on their Sunday best to kneel at the altar which is Google – a forward thinking company that has most of us [...] Continue reading →

A interesting note from a very smart person:   “This morning I woke up to find .gov missing. Now, I know that some people would find that an exciting, positive event. But on the net it wasn’t so positive, but it was exciting. What seems to have occurred is this: – DNSSEC keys for .gov [...] Continue reading →

Watching the news this morning it was hard not to feel bad for our friends the Greeks. Yes, their leaders made some unwise choices. Perhaps they don’t work the same hours, or with the same zeal as their Northern neighbors. Too many Greek countrymen work for their government, effectively draining the public coffers rather than [...] Continue reading →

Welp, its official: https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2456470&topic=23388&ctx=topic Google has shut down its in-house Domain channel. AFD direct through Google is gone!~ Before the handwringing outsiders and the misinformed begin to spout inaccuracies like “domain traffic is dead!” or “it’s a Facebook and Twitter world so abandon your names you delusional old-timers!”,  let me take this opportunity to tell [...] Continue reading →