News network wants Spanish domain name. Cable News Network, aka CNN, wants to get its hands on the CNN.es domain name. There’s just one problem: it was registered back in 2005. So the company has filed a domain dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization to try to get the domain name. At the time of ...

Communications company settles lawsuit over typosquatting. Verizon has reached a tentative settlement with 2Cool Guys, LLC, Warren Weitzman, and Arnold Trebach over alleged trademark infringement from domain name typos. The communications company filed the complaint in October, alleging that the defendants parked typos of its popular Verizon trademark in order to earn pay-per-click revenue. The terms ...

For online domain auctions, less is more. Two “extended” domain name auctions concluded this week. The results were underwhelming. In the Rick Latona auction, only 9 of 600 domain names sold. The Moniker extended auction sold 79 of about 2,000 domains. So what’s the problem? Too many domains, and especially too many poorly priced domain ...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Sweden's .SE Registry claims victory over .Com. According to a report published by the government commissioned Central Bureau of Statistics (SCB), "The .SE domain is growing stronger while .com is losing its’ foothold in Sweden."...

Escrow.com offers service for domain name purchase payment plans. I caught up with Escrow.com president Brandon Abbey during DOMAINfest last week. When I asked him about current trends in sales, he said the company is seeing more people wishing to do payment plans when they acquire domains. Escrow.com has a service for these customers. It ...

Go Daddy pulls in top honors in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. Getting buzz from Super Bowl commercials isn’t the only thing domain name registrar Go Daddy does well. For the fifth year in a row, the registrar has been rated best registrar in Domain Name Wire’s annual survey. This year 41% of those ...

Mardi Gras plus Saints celebration makes New Orleans the place to be this week. Last month I interviewed Domainer Mardi Gras Executive Directory Michael Ward about this year’s conference. After the interview, he sent an email to me about how important it was that people reserved their hotel rooms early. Here’s what he wrote: The ...

Eyewear company’s dates don’t add up. Zenni Optical, LLC, a retailer of eyeglasses, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a World Intellectual Property Organization arbitrator. Zenni Optical filed the complaint to get the domain name Zenni.com. But its dates didn’t add up. Zenni.com was registered in May 2002. But Zenni ...

I thought this would be an interesting question to see what you might be interested in learning more about. There are numerous resources and tools available that make…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Poll: What is the most difficult challenge you face as a domainer? ...

A look behind the people who responded to this year’s survey. I’d like to thank each and every person who participated in this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey. 537 people in the domain industry participated this year. If you’re one of the five people who will receive a free copy of David Kesmodel’s “The ...