In my opinion, an advertising platform powered by Facebook would represent excellent news for our industry. I was one of the first advertisers back when FB launched its self-serve platform (you could only advertise on Facebook and they still haven’t made their platform available to third party publishers) and literally saw how the costs per [...] Continue reading →

Some bad and ugly top level domain name ideas. I’ve written about a number of company’s and city’s plans to apply for new top level domain names. There are also lists of proposed domains out there. Some of these potential top level domain names have some hope, but others just seem doomed from the [...] Continue reading →

Had a little time to peruse the recent 5 letter dot com sales from the last few weeks.  Actually it was a pretty slow two weeks for 5 letter dot coms. Per usual there aren’t many trends to pick up on other than the names are pronounceable and “clean”.  Clean meaning they aren’t acronyms and [...] Continue reading →

This is one of those posts where I write about something that has nothing to do with domain names but make a lame effort at tying it to the industry… I grew up in St. Louis and am a life long Cardinals fan. So last Friday I could hardly work. My hands were still shaking [...] Continue reading →

I bought WeddingEntertainment.com a few years ago and sold it shortly thereafter. I recently had the opportunity to re-purchase the domain name, and I am looking to re-sell it once again. WeddingEntertainment.com is registered at Moniker, and the buy it now price is $8,600, which is significantly less than the price at which I previously [...] Continue reading →

Good morning everyone (or afternoon depending on where you are) and welcome to Startup Monday! Today I’m excited to announce my very first give-away, a copy of Eric Ries’s new book – The Lean Startup. Eric is the leader of the Lean Startup Movement, a new approach that I’ve been learning about and implementing in [...] Continue reading →

Over the weekend, Christine Jones general counsel and corporate secretary of GoDaddy.com wrote a piece that appeared in Politico.com in support of the E-Parasite Bill. In the piece Ms. Jones write in part: “”It’s a welcome step in the right direction, and we at GoDaddy.com applaud the leadership in the [...] Continue reading →