Adam Dicker had a great video yesterday about why you should go to TRAFFIC.  If you aren’t going you should be.  He also mentions all the people that you’ll meet but accidentally forgot me.  But my favorite part is when he goes to shut up the dogs, classic.  Take a look at today’s list and [...] Continue reading →

Verisign, managers of .com and .net domains, filed an ICANN complaint today, citing the ‘unfair advantage‘ of the .CO Registry and .CO domain names. “There is no doubt that the increased popularity of .CO domains is solely due to an artificial, unfair advantage the Registry has established,” said Verisign spokesman, Larry Laffer. “Without its bright [...] Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago a did a post about a $329 click on a parked page that got a lot of attention. The story was inspired by a couple of screenshots sent to me by the creators of the ClickMillions educational platform. I told them that I would be happy to post this data, [...] Continue reading →

There have been a few times I unsuccessfully tried to add a domain name to my parking account, and because the domain name was already listed in another account, it didn’t get added to mine. When you are adding names to your account, be sure that they are all added. Let’s say that I put a [...] Continue reading →

      The highest grossing movie at the box office this week is Pain & Gain. The movie is based on a a true story which took place in 1995 in Miami Florida, however in the first minutes of the movie a billboard advertising the domain name UseACondom.com is show prominently. which is [...] Continue reading →

.Com registry awarded patent for using registry data to trigger web crawling. With Verisign analyzing how to profit from its patent portfolio, competitors should pay close attention to the company’s new patents. Today Verisign was awarded U.S. Patent 8,433,700 (pdf) for “Method and system for triggering web crawling based on registry data”. The patent describes [...] Continue reading →

End users have already activated April purchases. Once parked pages beam with creativity and REAL business.  Would Estibot have gotten any of these right?  Would you have connected these names if you owned them to land where they did?  What can we learn from all this? A Merlin [...] Continue reading →