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I'm currently in Sarasota, Florida where our son will be getting married on the beach this weekend. While I'm in Sarasota - the place where I began a TV sporstcasting career - I will also be researching a possible geodomain project. More details in..

The curtain came down on Canada's first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference Thursday evening in Vancouver, BC. The event closed with a live domain auction that netted nearly $700,000 thanks to a pair of blockbuster 7-figure sales. Attendees also watched E.CO s..

Day Two at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver conference featured a fireside chat with the father of Canada's .CA extension, John Demco, and a panel discussion about its future. There was also a .CA domain auction and a panel discussion about the future of..

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Audemars and Piquet families have been on the board of the Audemars Piquet watch company since its inception in 1875. That family commitment shows in both their style and their quality. There watches have become more modern with the times, note the h..

The Cvstos or Custos Challenge Chrono 577 Automatic Tonneau shaped watch is a big to wear as it is to say. Incidentally, Cvstos is pronounced the same way you would say Jasque Cousteau’s last name. It’s aptly named the challenge because I..

The Universal Geneve Tri-Compax is one complication short of being a grand complication. It doesn’t have a minute repeater but amazingly, it has everything else. It’s a tripledate moonphase chronograph. The moonphase complication is the o..

Morning Folks!! When it rains, it pours. One of my all time favorite domains is VirtualTours.com. I have waited a long time for things to progress and still not the vision I see. My true vision is to be able to go “Virtually” to any and every cor..

Morning Folks!! Do you know how to read between the lines?? The single most important post in the domain industry in a very long time was posted last night. It is much more than a post. This is something you need to read several times and study. This..

Morning Folks!! We had a record amount of nominations this year cast by the domain industry for the 7th Annual T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards. Congratulations to all distinguished nominees!! 2010 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NOMINATIONS Ballots will be sent out later this..

Changes at Twitter is another good sign for the .co tld. Per twitter’s email that I received: “t.co URL wrapping In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our [...] Related posts:Check Available Twitter Usernames and Do..

Last week Sedo kept busy. The highest domains bought were devisen.de @ 55930EUR and magazyny.pl 33000EUR. Outdoorfountains.com at 22000 USDled the .com sales. Here is the complete Sedo list. Domain name Price Currency .COMs outdoorfountains.com 22000..

Rick Latona is having an auction that has 25 letter .GL’s which ech name starting at just $1,000. .Gl is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name [...] Related posts:Are you addicted to Facebook ? Go to Facebook for Help.

If you’re reading my blog, I have to assume that you will have read Frank Schilling’s latest post, after all, his views are more important than mine and he is a lot more successful at domaining than I will ever be. If you haven’t re..

Every now and again, usually when I have a spare few hours, I scan my domain name list to find a likely candidate for some development. Sometimes, that development will involve creating a small site with an occasional affiliate link, some Adsense and..

I was in discussion today about the subject of development and in particular over-development. It’s too easy when developing a domain, to get sidetracked into areas that you really shouldn’t be concerned with. I’ve been there and do..

Is ICANN Handling Too Many Policy Issues? | White House To Meet With ICANN On Illegal Online Pharmacies | Australian domain registration | .IL Domain Names in Hebrew Available Soon | Pentagon considers preemptive strikes as part of cyber-defense stra..

Temporary Drafting Group Work Session on New gTLD Registry Agreement Issues – to be held 8 September 2010 | Applicants Sought from Internet User Community for Seat on Board of Directors | ICANN's Tokyo Meeting Provides a Little More Clarity on the..

The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom: The FCC's move to treat broadband providers like phone company monopolies could spur international efforts to regulate the Web | Public Comment: Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Regist..

There was a neat article today on Huffington Post about Juan Calle and the .CO Registry. Aside from the mildly insulting comment that seems to equate domain parking with cybersquatting, it’s a pretty good article about the Registry and its mark..

I bought ActingCoach.com several months ago hoping for a quick flip. I posted it for sale on forums, and I also received a few inquiries from end users (from the parking page), including one nice (profitable) offer. I passed on that offer hoping to r..

I am looking to buy a couple (or maybe more) high quality profession domain names, and I would be interested in seeing your priced submissions. As I always do, I have posted the requirements for the domain names I want to buy.  Please do NOT submit..

The domain name Voke.com has been sold at Sedo.com for $35,000 USD. Voke.com was purchased by Voke Entertainment Technologies LLC from domain legend Frank Schillings company Name Administration Inc. Voke.com has a current registration of July 18, 200..

My DVR was set and the show was set to air in it’s normal time slot at 8 PM CT but episode 3 of Pitchmen for the 2010 season never aired on Thursday night (9-2-10)! Considering the hostage situation that took place at the Discovery Channel, thi..

Do you have planning in place for your domain names if something were to happen to you? Some domain names are worth millions of dollars but it is often the case that one YOU have login details, location of the domain names etc. What would happen to a..

Escrow.com and I are giving away a free DNCruise conference pass, cruise to Cozumel Mexico and even including round-trip airfare (up to $250). If you are a domain investor, own at least ten domain names and are available for a cruise from October 11-..

I’m famous, I made it on CNN Money. Ok, so it was just for a split second, lol. Watch the video, you will see myself sitting next to client Kevin Wood whom purchased Companion.com $45,000 and Hoarders.com $1,500 during DOMAINfest’s live a..

I was reading TMZ.com, which I do daily. Yes I like celebrity gossip, lol. During my daily read of celebrity news I found an article which included GoDaddy. It appears that Michael Jackson’s estate is suing the owner of MichaelJacksonCasino.com..

From Israel Internet Asscociation (ISOC-IL) Hebrew Domain Names ISOC-IL is expanding the Domain Name Registration service with the option to register Domain Names containing Hebrew characters, like איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il, which will soon..

From the Washington Post Pentagon Considers Preemptive Strikes as Part of Cyber-Defense Strategy The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an..

From the Wall Street Journal Are “Sext” Messages a Teenage Felony or Folly State lawmakers around the U.S. are struggling to decide if teenage “sexting”—the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive photos by cellphone..

News today that VOX.com will be shutting its door. The site which mixes social networking in with a blog hosting site, like Typepad.com. The site ranked by Alexa as the 1,037 busiest site on the net, gets according to Compete.com over 1.2 Million vis..

The domain name owner of DandG.com just fought off a complaint by Dolce & Gabbana. (the decision has not yet been reported) However is a nice win for the domain holder who was represented by Mike Rodenbaugh of Rodenbaugh Law. Its a very interesti..

The land rush auction for Slots.co started yesterday and the current high bid is as of time of publication is $15,500. So we are opening up a poll on what you think this domain will sell for. The auction closes in 6 days unless extended under the bid..

It give us great pleasure to announce the very first episode of Domainer Income TV. The show is unlike anything you have seen before. Its run by professional domain investors who are raising standards and are bringing a new level of education and tra..

A few minutes ago we heard back from Sedo in relation to our story yesterday. As such we are posting their feedback in full below: “We can confirm that Google is one of Sedo’s advertising partners, but cannot confirm that they are the source..

Early this morning I received an email from Sedo regarding possible changes to the way their “primary advertising provider” monetizes Sedo parking pages. I’m going to take a wild guess here (I could be wrong) and say that “pri..

Revenue slides but bottom line improves in first half of year. Revenue at domain name brokerage and parking company Sedo for the first half of 2010 was down compared to the same period last year, but earnings were up. Sedo Holding reported (pdf) reve..

Nearly a century of royalty payments bought out. Bingo.com, Ltd has bought out its remaining royalty payments on the domain name Bingo.com for $900,000 in equity. The company had a deal with the prevous owner of the domain (Bingo, Inc) to pay it 4% o..

Jobs domain pro merges one of his companies with Recruiter.com. Jason Davis has struck another large domain name deal by merging his RecruitingBlogs.com with Recruiter.com. Although technically a merger, Recruiter.com’s domain name was its main..

One- and Two-Character .TRAVEL domain names will be released in the near future following ICANN’s approval of the proposal to release all of the domain names. The .TRAVEL registry is currently deciding a process for releasing the domain names that..

Nokia appears to be interested in applying for the .NOKIA top level domain according to a Domain Incite report. During a meeting of ICANN’s vertical integration working group on 30 August Nokia working group representative Tero Mustala said, “our..

Responding to a Domain Name Wire article on whether there is “policy overload” at ICANN and whether they are “handling too many policy efforts at once”, David Olive responds on the ICANN Blog saying the answer with a definitiv..