.Travel shows up in a print ad. Here’s something I haven’t seen before: a magazine ad with a .travel domain name. Admittedly, I don’t read travel magazines. But while flipping through the latest issue of American Express’ Departures magazine, I came across a tourism ad for Egypt. The URL? www.Egypt.travel. (See the full ...

eNom joins competitors in offering easy domain reseller option. Joining the ranks of Go Daddy and Tucows, eNom is launching a domain reseller package that includes a web storefront for non-techies. eNom’s system, called “Instant Reseller“, is essentially a reseller-in-a-box package that includes a fully hosted website and customized storefront, a shopping cart feature, order fulfillment and ...

The 2010 GeoDomain Expo will be held in the Big Easy at the luxurious Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel April 28-30. Associated Cities, who produces the annual conference for domain developers, announced their keynote speaker today and they came up with a winner - Hotels.com co-founder David Litman....

Familiar faces top results from survey. Sedo and Parked.com were selected as the best domain name parking companies in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. Sedo took top honors with 23% of the vote, followed by Parked.com at 18%. Here are the top five vote-getters: 1. Sedo 23% 2. Parked.com 18% 3. NameDrive 13% 4. SmartName 6% 5. DomainSponsor and ...

The owners of PokerCompany.com made history last week when they purchased Poker.org for $1 million, by far the highest price ever reported for a .org domain. We have learned that they also paid the second highest price ever reported for a .org domain in the previously unannounced sale we are reporting today....

From “anything goes” to “nothing goes”, changes to .Cn registration enforcement will reduce the number of .cn domain names. China’s domain name strategy has always perplexed me. For a country known for censoring just about everything, I found it odd that the country was essentially giving away .Cn domain names for about 14 cents. ...

Paris loses challenge to Paris.tv. A French arbitrator disagrees. Ville de Paris — the City of Paris — has lost yet another domain name arbitration case. At issue was Paris.tv. This isn’t the first time Paris has gone after this domain name. It sent two cease and desist letters to the owner of Paris.tv ...

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, a better partnership between domainers and the world’s biggest registrar would benefit the industry. GoDaddy is the most loved domain name registrar. Ironically, it’s probably the most hated registrar at the same time. Respondents to DNW’s annual survey have selected GoDaddy.com as the best registrar for five years running. ...

Registry wants to offer name.xxx later this year. After winning an independent review against ICANN for denying ICM Registry’s application for a .xxx top level domain name, the registry says it hopes to begin offering .xxx domain names later this year. It has already opened up a process on its web site to pre-reserve names. Whether ...

Domain company plants flag in Texas. Last month I hinted that a domain name company was on its way to Austin. Now it’s official: domain parking and sales company NameDrive has set up shop in the capital of Texas. The company has leased space north of Austin, which it is currently readying for move-in. Four ...