As a sponsor of the BCIC - New Ventures BC Competition, Webnames.ca would like to congratulate all the companies who have qualified for Rounds 2.5 and 3 of the competition. Rounds 2, called the Feasibility Test, ended on May 9th. Competitors in this round were required [...] Continue reading →

ps. Good News Musk Oil- Elon Musk offering charging stations for the new Telsa's (stock went from $25 to 100 so stay tuned!)  What does all this have to do with domaining? Well to develop and get traffic you need to know your way around Google and that's where the Matt Cutts flowchart comes [...] Continue reading →

Afternoon Folks! As of this moment and over the weekend this blog will finally be moving to the WordPress platform. So Ricksblog.com may be dark at points in the coming days as we get things set up. Rick Schwartz [...] Continue reading →

Developers of .CO domain names, average a high IQ, according to a recent study conducted by the St. Paulus University of Medical Psychology. The study presented a blind sample of 450 entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley area with a series of MENSA-approved questions, adding a field about their active web site. An astounding 97.5% of [...] Continue reading →

ICANN announced today that it has selected the first two new gTLD Data escrow agents. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data through one of the approved data escrow service providers. The data held in escrow may be released to ICANN under certain [...] Continue reading →

After perusing the listings of recent domain sales, we located BoatsForSale.com that was sold by Frank Schilling for six figures. As it turns out, the week before a similar domain was sold; once again, by the ever-busy Frank who has put together a dynamic sales team in the Caymans, led by industry heavyweight, Jeff Gabriel. [...] Continue reading →

The weekly batch of new gTLD Initial Evaluation results has just been published, revealing 81 passes and one failure — the first failure that isn’t a dot-brand. DOTPAY SA, a Swiss company, only scored 7 out of the necessary 8 points on its financial evaluation and is therefore now categorized as “Eligible for Extended Evaluation”. [...] Continue reading →