Several months ago, I learned that Cheesecake.com had been listed for sale in September, and Brooke Hernandez of Domain Advisors was representing the seller of the domain name and website. According to Toby Clements, brother of one of the owners, Cheesecake.com was recently sold. From today’s TobyClements.com domain sales newsletter: “On a completely different note, I [...] Continue reading →

ICANN has published a DRAFT of final report of the “Whois Policy Review Team’s”,  whose mission was to  “review the extent to which ICANN’s Whois policy and its implementation are effective, meet the legitimate needs of law enforcement, and promote consumer trust.” The Final Draft Report [PDF, 1.04 MB] is opened for public comment until [...] Continue reading →

Today we have a nice long list of 132 expired domain names. These keyword .com's all dropped today, January 30th and were all available for registration at the time of this post. Tastes vary amongst domain investors but my personal favorites are Shikera.com, LetterCode.com, DigDo.com and MyMasquerade.com. Have at them [...] Continue reading →

Openreach, the lead deployment arm of BT, has issued an announcement asking residents and landlords of apartment blocks to join a pilot project that will eventually bring broadband download speeds of up to 300Mbps to residents. "Participants will gain access to Openreach’s Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) technology which delivers super-fast broadband speeds," [...] Continue reading →

Thousands of domainers are flocking to Domainfest, which opens its gates tomorrow, January 31st in Santa Monica, California. The three-day domain conference will accommodate a large party of domain investors from India and Pakistan, where domaining has exploded in 2011 due to new regulations by their respective governments. Thousands of Indian and Pakistani domainers are [...] Continue reading →

According to a blog post on paidcontent.org, Verizon has filed suit against Parked.com, the ICANN  accredited registrar Directnic and John Doe defendants for cybersquatting  on more than 600 domain names. The 36 page federal suit was filed on January 27th in the Central District of California, including over 8 pages which just lists the domain [...] Continue reading →

A few days ago, I received an Instant Message from an acquaintance who told me about a new (free) service his company, First Beat Media, recently launched – LeadRefs.com. The site aims to help domain investors find buyers for domain names. Essentially, the service does Whois searches for similar domain names and provides contact information [...] Continue reading →