Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Looking back at 2015 and NamesCon2016 I have produced dozens of popular and well attended domain name conferences over the past 11 years, but most noteworthy to me is that within the past year, I have had the [...] Continue reading →

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Looking back at 2015 and NamesCon2016 I have produced dozens of popular and well attended domain name conferences over the past 11 years, but most noteworthy to me is that within the past year, I have had the [...] Continue reading →

I have produced dozens of popular and well attended domain name conferences over the past 11 years, but most noteworthy to me is that within the past year, I have had the privilege to assemble content and produce the largest Domain Name industry conference, NamesCon – where we broke records with 1200+ attendees for a [...] Continue reading →

Market Watch 3/31/16 Domain stocks ended the first quarter mixed. No real boig moves today, Rightside (NAME) saw the highest number of shares traded since January 19,2016. The stock closed at the low for the day $8.05. Neustar (NSR) was down another 2.5% after dropping 7.5% yesterday. Endurance Intl (EIGI) cpntinued to improve on the [...] Continue reading →

I’m going outside in this nice weather to cut the hell out of some shrubs.  It should be a good way to blow off some steam from the frustration of trying to track down a Java memory leak.  Yard work is therapeutic, and I need some therapy. Numeric .com Δ30MA .com [...] Continue reading →

Playbuzz.com is in the news today after raising $15 million dollars. According to VentureBeat.com, the company said it “raised $15 million in funding from Saban Ventures and Disney for its business of providing sponsored content. Playbuzz helps publishers and content creators distribute their content in ways that boost engagement and social distribution.” The domain name [...] Continue reading →

The domain name domainking.ng changed registrars yesterday, apparently as a result of our post announcing that Rick Schwartz filed an administrative proceeding similar to a UDRP with the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) which manages the Top Level Domain (.ng ccTLD) based on his “domain King” trademark. The domain name domainking.ng is being used as [...] Continue reading →