No, TLDOffers.com won’t sell you top level domains. I’ve written before about new domain name aftermarkets and asked if there was room for anything to compete against the incumbents. Few people think it’s possible. Today I saw a press release for a new market called TLDoffers.com. The name threw me for a loop, especially after ...

A recent UDRP decision begs the question, do big companies get the benefit of doubt in UDRP? Most UDRP arbitration filings are against small time domain owners. So a recent case caught my eye because the respondent was a major media company, Scripps Networks. Scripps networks owns HGTV, Food Network, and DIY network among ...

Blissful Domain, a vintage furniture and clothing store, opened last Wednesday at 1523 Lititz Pike, next to shoe store RB Shap.The 800-square-foot store, in a former dry cleaners, specializes in second-hand furnishings, including flea market finds of the store's owner, Laura Esh. In readying the......

Casino.ru domain was purchased by Game Media Inc. at the price of 250 000 US dollars. The Casino.ru domain purchase became the largest transaction in sphere of domain acquisition, concerning RU area....

A comical look at the state of our economy (satire). [As CEOs of the "big three" auto manufacturers in the U.S. go hat-in-hand to the federal government today, I thought I'd take a humorous look at what may happen if the biggest three registrars ran into trouble.] Representatives of the “big three” domain name registrars — ...

Sitebox rapidly scaling down as it is no longer strategic to company. Local search and advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) is scaling down its third party domain name parking service Sitebox. Company executives believe the service is no longer strategic to the company. Sitebox produced revenues of $5 million in the first half of the year, ...

Two live domain name auctions kick off this evening. Two live domain name auctions that are part of the Traffic Down Under conference will take place this evening starting at 5:30 PM Eastern U.S. time. The first auction is organized by Aftermarket.com and starts at 5:30. I previewed that auction last week. Online bidding started ...

Opening night party to include exclusive access to two rides. DOMAINfest Global ‘09, a domain conference organized by domain parking company DomainSponsor , has announced that its opening night party will take place at Universal Studios. Even better, conference goers will get exclusive access to two rides without the wait: Jurassic Park and Revenge ...

Country code domain names carry risks. Here are a couple examples. Sure is pretty. Until the water rises. This headline isn’t a joke. Here’s how global warming and subsequent rising ocean waters could doom a domain name extension. Last night I read an article in The Economist about the Maldives, an island nation planning for ...

Be careful as you click through checkout on GoDaddy . If you’re used to quickly clicking through the GoDaddy checkout process to register domains, be warned: the default registration period has changed to 5 years. The graphic below shows the default when I tried to register the domain RegisteringDomainsForMultipleYears.com. Most domainers already stop at this ...