.Info Registry Affilias has asked ICANN to approve their plan to offer one and two character domain names. ICANN originally reserves all one and two character domains from being registered with all newer TLDs. .biz Registry Neustar recently launched one and two character domain names for registration and Affilias plans to follow their approach. Their [...] Continue reading →

After being away from home three of the past four weeks covering domain conferences (T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas, DOMAINfest Global & Domainer Mardi Gras), I owe my wife some time together. So, this afternoon we are off to a favorite place. Plus, Sedo confirms the $1 million sale of Poker.org - the highest .org sale ever [...] Continue reading →

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A case study in how to create goodwill for your business and drive traffic to your geodomaiin websites. Veteran domain investor/developer Rob Grant provides a successful template you can use for your own projects, but be ready to get involved in your community if you want to reap [...] Continue reading →

.CO Internet S.A.S has been aggressively promoting their new .co TLD, set to launch later this year. The Registry is working hard to overcome the image of .co being labeled as a "typo-TLD". In their extensive research, they found that more than 75% of those interviewed viewed .co as having to do with a "company", [...] Continue reading →

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Though no 6-figure sales were reported this week there was a flood of solid 5-figure sales. In fact we had almost enough of those to fill TWO Top 20 charts. In addition to the ones that did make our weekly leader board, we logged [...] Continue reading →

Well today had some great names drop in the .com.au space, and it still blows my mind that these names are let drop!! First up www.CarParts.com.au went at auction on Drop.com.au for AU$18,012 and was picked up by Michael Sojevic from the domain blog www.DNTrade.com.au. Well done Michael, that is a record for Drop.com.au where [...] Continue reading →

I typically like to wait for an end user to approach me with a good offer, however sometimes it is nice to just sell some domains on your own schedule. I have a couple of big purchases on the horizon, so this week I have been testing a few of the auction sites. [...] Continue reading →