They’re off to a fairly slow start. Will that change in 2015? This is the second in a five part series covering the top stories in the domain name industry in 2014. You can also listen to the companion podcast covering these five themes of 2014. 2014 was the Year of the New Top Level [...] Continue reading →

A new, revolutionary domain service by auction specialists, NameJet, aims at finding great domain deals – at the very last minute – without your active interaction. NameJetlagged, currently in beta, will allow NameJet users to locate and place bids on eligible domains auctioned at NameJet, even when they are asleep or otherwise occupied. “With NameJetlagged, [...] Continue reading →

After losing two UDRPs, light bulb store files federal lawsuit. If at first you don’t succeed… New York City light bulb store Just Bulbs has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) against the owner of the JustBulbs.com domain name, marking its third attempt to get the domain name through an arbitration or legal filing. The company [...] Continue reading →

German registrar Cronon, which retails domains under the Strato brand, has stopped carrying .uk domains due to what it says are onerous Whois validation rules. In a blog post, company spokesperson Christina Witt said that over one third of all .uk sales the registrar has been making are failing Nominet’s registry-end validation checks, which she [...] Continue reading →

Aaron and I have our annual meeting today. No expenses are spared during these meetings, meaning we operate under ICANN rules of meetings and get togethers.  We have lavish parties afterwards with the only problem being it’s just me and him.  Doesn’t mean we don’t spend six figures on it though.  We’ll be meeting again [...] Continue reading →

Blogs are meant to be read. But where are all the readers? Readers can be people holding mobile phones, tablet users at the gas station (or in traffic), laptop users tapping at the library, students researching at the library, or Window 7 phone users trading apps on the screen in a coffee shop. These people [...] Continue reading →

TurnCommerce acquired another 299 registrar accreditations from ICANN over Christmas week. The company, which is behind domain properties including DropCatch.com, now has at least 452 registrars in its stable. That’s over 31% of the 1,456 total currently reported by Internic. Each of the new accreditations is named “DropCatch”, followed by a number from 446 to [...] Continue reading →