Hi all and sorry for no posts over the past few months. As most of you know my family and I are on the road for 7 months taking some time out and having a great time I can tell you We have a blog about what we are up to at www.laptopnomads.com [...] Continue reading →

Dan Kaminsky of IOActive discovered that there were recent attacks happening on the DNS (domain name system) and he claims that more attacks are very likely. The DNS system is the backbone of the naming system, directing registered domain names to their numerical IP addresses. The recent attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the DNS and redirect [...] Continue reading →

A second straight day of technical snafus has led Bido.com to pull the plug on the online auction service for the time being. Elsewhere Name.com will start offering 800,000 AfternicDLS domains to their customers. [...] Continue reading →

I was searching today for one of my recently launched mini-sites to see if it had been indexed yet and came across an interesting (at least to me) find. I found a Marchex domain ranking #1 in Google! As many domainers know, Marchex is a big domain portfolio owner. Back in 2004, they [...] Continue reading →

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it is a jaw-dropper. We saw a half-dozen six-figure sales this week and all of those domains were purchased by the same person. In fact the Aspen, Colorado based buyer wound up spending over $1.1 million on a total of 11 domains for [...] Continue reading →

Despite being labeled as 'cybersquatters' by most of the media, domainers seem to lead a pretty easy life. They wake up in the morning, register a few domain names for less than ten bucks each, and sell a few for $10,000+...right? In some cases, the answer may be yes, but for the majority of domainers, [...] Continue reading →

In a recent survey, would-be website owners were asked this question: If you wanted a certain domain name for your company, and it was already taken, what would your second choice be? At the bottom of the popularity chart, getting only 2% of the vote, was this response: “I would try to buy the domain [...] Continue reading →