Being a former East Coaster naturally I was stoked to head to Boston for HostingCon. I haven’t attended many conferences so I was excited to absorb information, hang out with my team outside of the office, and catch up with vendors and partners. Needless to say, by the time Wednesday rolled around I was officially [...] Continue reading →

Today DNJournal Announced that Chef Patrick has parted ways with ScienceFiction.com as Braden Pollock takes over as the owner/operator of the site. As many of you know Patrick spearheaded the transformation of ScienceFiction.com from a dormant domain name into an online destination for Sci Fi fans. The Chef cooked up a WordPress blog on [...] Continue reading →

In an update to our previous post about an email spammer sending out affiliate spam for .CO renewals at GoDaddy, it appears as though the same spammers are back at it, cycling through disposable Gmail addresses as the old ones get flagged/blocked.  Or does it? I certainly havn’t been able to keep them out of [...] Continue reading →

IISP.HK is an ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar. They are also thieves of original news posted by domain bloggers, including Domain Name Wire and DomainGang. Their full corporate name is ZhuHai NaiSiNiKe Information Technology Co., Ltd. In the News section, IISP.HK has copied hundreds of original articles systematically, without any permission; some articles are partial, [...] Continue reading →

The member nomination period for the CIRA Board of Directors Election has begun at noon today!CIRA's Board of Directors ElectionCIRA is actively looking for interested individuals across Canada to apply for the two open positions for the Member Slate of CIRA's Board of Directors Election! Canadians [...] Continue reading →

Above.com is delighted to offer this rebate program to clients seeking .ORG domains. If you own a domain at Above.com, of any type TLD, you can now receive a $2 rebate per domain after registering the corresponding .ORG domain name.   For example:  If [...] Continue reading →

Afternic just reported sales for the week ending July 29th. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 996,285. Here are the reportable sales: .com Sales 1rc.com  $14,200.00 frogos.com  $11,765.00 macadamianaturaloil.com  $10,800.00 [...] Continue reading →