Makeup giant buys category killer domain name Makeup.com. L’Oreal has purchased the domain name and web site Makeup.com, and one of the bidders in an auction for the domain name tells us it was for seven figures. Makeup.com has an interesting history. The domain name was owned by Communicate.com — now Live Current Media — earlier ...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A 165K sale at Sedo scored a runaway win in this week's aftermarket race. Four ccTLDs and a pair of .nets broke through the strong .com defensive line to join 14 .coms on our new Top 20 Chart. Two of those country codes crashed the top ten....

A look at where we’re headed for domain monetization. It’s no secret that the traditional form of domain name monetization — PPC parking — has seen a decline over the past three years. Nonetheless, this form of monetization is still the best option for most domain names. Certain segments of domain names can do ...

URL2Domain scans text and looks for corresponding domain names available for registration. Whenever I hear or read a new term I haven’t heard of, I add it to a list of possible domain names to register. A new tool call URL2Domain now makes that process easy: it will scan entire web pages to find words ...

Michael "Zappy" Zapolin has scored a major honor for his latest category killing domain name development project - PrescriptionDrugs.com. The Harvard Business School has selected the site as a candidate in their "New Ventures" competition. Zappy will present to a panel of judges this month with a spot in the final 3 on the line....

Four years after their first European conference in Barcelona, Spain, DOMAINfest will return to the Continent for a big show to be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic October 6-7, 2010. Here is what's on tap....

Domain name arbitration company offers lower fees for “simple” cases. Czech Arbitration Court, one of the providers of arbitration services under Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), is slashing fees to 500 EUR per case effective March 15 for certain cases. The 500 EUR fee will apply only in cases where the respondent does not reply to ...

Author of typosquatting report says domainers add little value, and questions the right to register large numbers of domain names. Cyber intelligence company Cyveillance has interviewed Benjamin Edelman, one of the authors of a recent report on typosquatting, and he has this to say about domainers: they cause harm and add little genuine value. It should be ...

Second DOMAINfest conference to take place in Prague. We now have the details about the second DOMAINfest conference for 2010, something the company foreshadowed back in July. Oversee.net announced today that it will hold the second conference in Prague, Czech Republic. It will be a two day event, October 6 and 7, 2010 at Hotel Intercontinental. ...

Johns Wu has a new favorite past time — domaining. Here’s an interesting story about Johns Wu, who founded the Bankaholic blog and sold it for about $15 million to Bankrate. He’s investing in high quality domain names — part of his “Grand Slam” strategy: Thankfully, the cash from the Bankaholic sale has enabled me to ...