The Czech company hoping to apply to ICANN for the .free top-level domain next year has secured an undisclosed investment from local domainer Jan Barta. Jeremie Godreche from dotFree described the deal as “an active and long term relationship”. Barta is the founder of Elephant Orchestra, a domain investment and lead generation company based in [...] Continue reading →

Reader collates stats about your blog in an easy-to-consume format. Google didn’t own FeedBurner when I started Domain Name Wire, and I also didn’t want to trust my RSS feed to a third party. That means I syndicate using plain old RSS. Fortunately, some major RSS readers including Google Reader now show you how many [...] Continue reading →

The domain name NBB.com just sold over at Sedo.com for $95,000. The domain name is current in escrow at Sedo awaiting transfer. The domain was owned by Malcolm Stone of Irvine Ca. To see some of the things that NBB stands for click here [...] Continue reading →

This is most likely the worst daily list ever assembled.  I’ve seen days where no decent names were available but this one might take the cake.  Even more surprising are some of the names that people are bidding on.  Godaddy and Namejet must be giggling.  It’s like throwing away an old pair of socks because [...] Continue reading →

And is WiseWindow.com (tagline: mass opinion business intelligence) the future of the average-Joe's improving their bets on the market? According to InformationWeek, "WiseWindow begins distributing sentiment data for consumer stocks such as airlines as a Bloomberg data feed. Here's how one quant applied the data. Social market analytics firm WiseWindow has begun providing [...] Continue reading →

This post isn’t for sympathy or a search for “you do a good job” comments.  It’s a a story of reality.  The reality is writing a site completely on your own is draining.  The time it takes to write, gather, and research takes hours and the time to criticize takes seconds. It’s not about money.  [...] Continue reading →

This is going to be my last post about the Dot Nxt Conference but an important one. In the audience from Dot Nxt was a women from Nigeria from a region known as Delta and she was at the conference to try to learn about getting .Delta for her community. [...] Continue reading →