FedEx is running a new campaign with big displays in their formerly Kinko's shops with the tagline "EarthSmart" as the program name. They don't own the domain nor thought it important to acquire, as they went to market as http://earthsmart.van.fedex.com Go figure! Meanwhile Verizon [...] Continue reading →

Verisign - the dot com registry - is safe, despite several hundred thousand homes and businesses being left without power in Virginia, due to storms. “Here at Verisign we have multiple back up systems to keep our domain services up and running non stop,” said Matt Black of Verisign. “We have diesel power generators, solar [...] Continue reading →

Congratulations to Frank Schilling and his Domain Name Sales Team on ending another month in grand style. Frank Schilling has no special talent- he just Googles to see if there is demand from multiple end users who would benefit from becoming category king and what [...] Continue reading →

By Ary Kenyach NameJet action list for June 30, 2012. These names must be back ordered by 8 pm Pacific. Selection is not that great today. I usually post names with 30 or more bids but there were not that many today with 30 or more bids. ODO.org would be my pick for today. [...] Continue reading →

By now you’ve all figured out my day job is owning a nursery.  I don’t sit behind a computer all day and most of the time my daytime online communication is merely checking my phone.  The good and the bad is I’m constantly outside.  Fresh air means little to no sickness (of course I’ve been [...] Continue reading →

As news of the new gTLDs, digital archery and ICANN dominate domain industry headlines, .TV continues to grow with more strong sales, developments and support from the domain community. Since my last .TV update, I have seen nearly $200k in reported .TV sales (see list below). Last month, Rick Schwartz wrote a post titled .mobi, .biz, [...] Continue reading →

As much as I enjoy working within the domain industry, there are still plenty of things that annoy me on a daily basis. I want to share my top ten list of things in the domain industry that I find annoying. There are probably plenty of others that I missed, so feel free to post [...] Continue reading →