When forced to choose an alternative, most go with .net. If a domain investor can’t get the .com for a domain name but has to choose a secondary gTLD, they choose .net 62% of the time. That’s based on 1,137 survey responses in Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual industry survey. Survey respondents are asked: “If [...] Continue reading →

HP buys domain for cloud offering and a look at 18 other end user domain purchases this past week. HP is the biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report. The company purchased CloudFolders.com for what amounts to pennies (or a fraction of a penny) to the company: $3,790 at Sedo. Interestingly, the [...] Continue reading →

It’s February 29, 2012, and there won’t be another February 29 until 2016. I am sure more than one person is wondering what the expiration date would be for domain names registered on “Leap Day” since there will be no February 29th next year. For that question, CentralNic CTO Gavin Brown has your answer: In [...] Continue reading →

I have a nice big list of Godaddy expired auctions today. Go through the bottom list too as there are plenty of names I would have put up top had the list been smaller. ProOnline.com and WillWay.com are currently getting the most money thrown at them while AskOut.com and Devans.com [...] Continue reading →

Minds + Machines is to apply to ICANN for .bangaluru, a top-level domain for the Indian city of Bengaluru. Parent Top Level Domain Holdings announced today that M+M will enter into a joint venture with local partner India TL Domain for the application. Confusingly, the proposed gTLD appears to be a misspelling – or at [...] Continue reading →

I want to start off this morning by stating the obvious.  We have a new sponsor of the Big List here on DomainShane, Escrow.com.  As I stated the other day, if a domain seller won’t take Escrow.com then you should be wary.  With the help of a friend (thank you very much friend) I was [...] Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, we wrote about how on the day of Whitney Houston’s death, the domain name BobbiKristina.com was registered by some obscure adult entertainer and was placed for sale on AfterMarket.com. It was subsequently removed from the marketplace by force, but it seems that now GoDaddy has stepped in and repossessed the domain! According [...] Continue reading →