While I was away visiting family the past four days ICANN again decided to delay final approval of their plan to roll out an unlimited number of new gTLDS. While I see no need for new gTLDs, I am starting to feel a little sorry for people who have invested money in businesses that [...] Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to write this kind of a post and address a topic that’s been on my mind for like almost 2 years now… Not sure how to do it without hurting some people’s feelings and ruffling a few feathers. Probably impossible. Anyways, I’ve written and re-written it maybe a half dozen times. Shit! [...] 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 →

It’s right about that time of the year, few more weeks and 2010 is history… It’s almost over pretty much and for me a good opportunity to reflect on things. Overall, it was pretty shitty in my book because a lot of bad shit happened. Got nothing to complain about on the business side of [...] Continue reading →

When .xxx goes live, ICM Registry, which is hoping to have their .xxx application approved by ICANN this week, plans to have three sunrise periods next year. The first sunrise period would be for all porn-related trademark owners, allowing them to claim their .xxx name. The second sunrise period would allow non-porn [...] Continue reading →

This is something. Remember when Chris Bosh won a case against a bonafide cybersquatter and the judge rewarded all of the squatter’s domain names to him to satisfy a judgement? That’s one thing. But here’s something else: Copyright Troll Domain Demains What do you think of that? [...] Continue reading →

The 2011 DOMAINfest Global conference coming up February 1-3 has announced a new Fantasy Domaining Contest (similar to Fantasy Football) with some attractive prizes up for grabs. They have also made some key changes in the PITCHfest Contest that debuted at the 2010 show last January. [...] Continue reading →