The February Cover Story is out at DN Journal. It is the story of Ron Sheridan, the highly regarded Business Development Director at DomainSponsor who just left that position. As Frank Schilling told us, "Ron’s fingerprints are on every facet of the modern domain industry." Orphaned at 7, here is how Sheridan soared to the [...] Continue reading →

I've been trying to move my feeds from FeedBurner to my Google account for some time, but a glitch in the migration process has me stuck at this page:When I click the [Next] button, I returned to the same page. If I click on "cancel and do not move feeds," I am taken to [...] Continue reading →

A top-level domain idea for indigenous peoples — .indigi. There are many indigenous groups of people — American Indian tribes, for instance, or Australian aboriginal people — who would be great candidates for a new TLD, but can’t afford the steep ICANN fees. To give them at least some identity on the [...] Continue reading →

Bido.com is set to make a comeback next week. The one-name-a-day auction platform debuted early last year but went dark due to repeated technical snafus. The company plans to load upcoming auctions into their system Monday (Feb. 16) with the first auction to begin Thursday (Feb.19). [...] Continue reading →

As my 350 closest friends are aware, I have been pursuing .NYC hard for over a year, and in fits and starts since 2000, in conjunction with my friend Bill Semich, who manages .NU. dotNYC is the company behind our latest (and now it appears final) effort to get New York City to get [...] Continue reading →

Though Yahoo spurned Microsoft's offer to buy the company last year (and subsequent overtures to buy just Yahoo's search business) it is starting to look like Microsoft intends to get Yahoo's search expertise one employee at a time if necessary. For the third time in the last 90 days Microsoft has lured a top executive [...] Continue reading →

Massive wildfires are raging through Australia's Victoria state destroying lives and property. Victoria is home to many well-known domainers. One of them, personal friend Michael Gilmour, is appealing for help with an effort to speed relief to people who have lost everything. [...] Continue reading →