Back in April, Chinese mobile device maker Xiaomi purchased Mi.com for $3.6 million, some reporters noted that the MI made perfect sense for the company as Mi can work as an acronym for Mobile Internet. Since that acquisition it seems that brand protection specialist Mark Monitor has been out scooping up Mi domains in other [...] Continue reading →

  I’ve stayed away from all of the new gTLDs except for a few numerics but the other day I decided to work with dot ninja to build out a name that I think I could do a good job with.  Over the next month I am going to build a website on Garden.Ninja.   [...] Continue reading →

A few years ago, I built a niche web site on a newly registered domain, AsbestosRoofCleaning.co.uk. As you might imagine, this three-word domain was available to register at the normal price. I didn’t have to go to the aftermarket. The idea behind the web site was to provide information about cleaning asbestos roofs as you [...] Continue reading →

DotWeekly.com DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures I was reading an interesting article that I ran into on Digg this evening and the story included two domain name stories in it. If your not sure who Matt Rutledge is, don’t worry, I didn’t either until I read the story! He started the site Woot.com . Well, [...] Continue reading →

Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. 114.com for $2,100,000 $2.1 million is good for #3 on the list of 2013′s reported sales, behind only KK.com at $2.4 million, and IG.com at $4.7 million. The domain is parked, yet [...] Continue reading →

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A domain investor from Uruguay attending ICANN50 in London, has reportedly bitten three participants of the conference, according to BBC News. Jose Santos Maria Delacruz was representing his home country of Uruguay as a technocrat with more than 2,500 domain names. Delacruz attacked and bit three French representatives during a heated discussion about gTLD protectionism, [...] Continue reading →