Klout, a social media analytics and ranking start up, recently added “Domainname” as a featured topic category. It doesn’t seem like Klout is giving this topic to many domain investors, but it appears that domain investing will soon be a viable and searchable topic on Klout. When you click the “domainname” topic link, an error [...] Continue reading →

Cybersquatters: Cybercriminals; UFOs discovered; campaign slogans; Happy work; Scared Dogs and as someone said about the "X" Factor changes "So a no-talent, who has no more talent than any of the no-talents who have ever appeared on X-Factor, or American Idol, was fired by the luckiest man in “entertainment”. Yawn." Owen Frager via Patty RosadoA [...] Continue reading →

Here are your Godaddy expired domain auctions for Tuesday, January 31st. All these auctions are ending today and many have no bidding activity at the time of this post. Getting Attention: Opina.com, Kbms.com, Berkheimer.com, and Vedalo.com. Developed on .net: MusicFancy.com Others of Interest: Swge.com, Phrenic.com, SocialPublisher.com, VintageRenovations.com, and RecipeBlast.com. These [...] Continue reading →

Emerging businesses are tricky. Though they even manage VC/PE funding, for every 10 such business models that are forecasted for sure success, 8 of them disappear with in the first 1000 days. I have been observing 2 business models for the last 3 years and now with certain degree of confidence can say that by [...] Continue reading →

Review Team Asks for Community Comment on Draft Recommendations that Could Bring Big Changes to Whois Whois allows you to look up the name and contact information of whoever operates any website domain – or at least, it should. But it isn’t always accurate. In some cases, Whois contact information is patently false, listing as [...] Continue reading →

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has launched the second and final phase of its consultation in the implementation of French characters (also known as Internationalised Domain Names, or IDNs) in .CA domain names. .CA holders and Canadian internet users are invited to provide their feedback on certain revisions [...] Continue reading →

A quiet week for domain name sales in the week to 25 December according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. My.net was the top seller for a comparatively small £49,000 ($75,950) through Sedo followed by vintageporn.com for $60,000 through HuntingMoon. Third biggest seller for the week also pipped the $50,000 mark, with viia.com [...] Continue reading →