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BC Government Gambling Website Brought Down by Privacy Breach

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:18:26 +0000

Apparently the Online Gambling site by the Province of British Columbia was not brought down by too much traffic after opening, as originally reported. The Globe and Mail now reports that the site was actually taken down because of a breach privacy that allowed players to see other player’s financial information and even use their [...]

Sedo Launches Sedo Pro World Tour Website

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:58:07 +0000

Sedo has launched a new website for the “Sedo Pro World Tour” Events. The event takes place in five different cities across the world over the course of seven months. The tour starts off in the city of the US headquarter of the company, Boston and ends at the European headquarter in Cologne in February [...]

Final Day for .CO Pre-Orders Before the Launch

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:40:49 +0000

Before tomorrow’s General Availability Launch of the .CO ccTLD domain registrations, today is the final day to place pre-orders. The local Colombian based registrar Mi.Com.Co has launched a site offering the top 300 places in its registration queue. Prices start at $300 and are lowered the later the spot in the queue is. Currently the [...]

Province of BC Overwhelmed by Success of Online Gambling Site

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:44:50 +0000

While the US state of Kentucky is fighting online gambling by seizing domain names, the Canadian Province of British Columbia has decided to try to get a part of the online gambling cake and was apparently overwhelmed by its success. The British Columbia Lotter Corporation had launched its controversial online gambling site, PlayNow.com, last Thursday and [...]

.EE Matches the Amount of Registrations for Two Months in Two Days

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:09:06 +0000

Two days after the Estonian Registry operator, Eesti Internet, has gone live with their new registry system, they added another 1,329 new domains, effectively doubling the amount of registrations processed over the course of the preceeding two months. The new model of the registry for .EE domains is now based on selling domains through accredited [...]

Survey For Registry Service Providers (new gTLDs)

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:54:35 +0000

In 2008 Jothan Frakes held an impromptu survey for registry service providers for new gTLDs at the ICANN meeting in Paris. The results were then consolidated into a matrix and published on the Names At Work blog by his friend Antony van Couvering – unfortunately DNN could not locate the information on the site today. [...]

Rick Schwartz Sells Punchbowl.com to MyPunchbowl.com

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:38:25 +0000

Rick “DomainKing” Schwartz has just posted a press release on his blog according to which he sold the domain name Punchbowl.com to Punchbowl Software, Inc , a developer of party and event planning website. The sales price of the domain has not been disclosed and the company states that it still working on a new [...]

Minds + Machines Parents Posts Loss While Waiting for new gTLDs

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:12:51 +0000

The parent company of Minds + Machines, Top Level Domain Holdings [AIM: TLDH] reported their revenue for the period to the end of April with £32,000 ($49,000), with a loss of £462,000 ($708,000). The company is pretty much in a holding pattern until the release of the new gTLDs by ICANN and is expecting finalization [...]

SnapNames .US Auction Ends Today

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:30:40 +0000

SnapNames’ .US domain auction in honor of Independence Day ends in about 7 hours at 3:15pm ET. So far only 20 of the 86 domains have received bids. AirlineTickets.us is currently leading the pack with a bid of $1,615, but many domains such as candy.us, slots.us and flights.us are not attracting any bidders, even though [...]

Fabulous.com Launches Yexa Beta for Registrars and Resellers – Exclusive Interview

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:45:36 +0000

As Andrew at Domain Name Wire revealed, Fabulous.com is going to be releasing a new solution for Registrars and Resellers by the name of Yexa. According to the PDF published on the preview site, that also hosts a sign-up form for the beta of the software, The software is going to allow customers to sell [...]

No Porn For You

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:06:14 +0000

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed yet another critical vote on the creation of a long-awaited .xxx domain. The vote – which has been postponed until June 2010 – will reportedly follow the formulation of a document that outlines various options available to the organization. Source

Domains in 2010

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:32:55 +0000

Well, here we are in the end of February. What have you seen so far in 2010 in regards to domains? Do you think they will rise up in value or crash? We are awaiting your comments and feedback! ~The Domain Blog

Noomle Launches Mobile System

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:54:16 +0000

As the only Ad-Hoc Development and Publishing Engine of its kind, Noomle.com is implementing mobile delivery into the value added propositions for Domain Name Owners. In continuation of its well respected “no revenue share” model, Noomle.com is adding a fully automated browser detection platform to its services to address the ever growing popularity of mobile [...]

Behind the Scenes at NamePros Live Auction

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:23:25 +0000

In this video you can see how RJ, Joseph, and I run the live auction over at NamePros. Live Auctions are held every two weeks. Enjoy!

Yahoo Renewals On The Rise

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:03:34 +0000

On July 1, 2008, Yahoo.com will raise thier renewal prices from the price of $9.95 per year to $34.95 per year. If you have domains at Yahoo, you should have recieved an email about the price increase. If not, then I suggest you turn off auto renew. Domains at Yahoo can auto renew, so you [...]

New Extension Takes On .MOBI

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:20:52 +0000

A new extension has been announced. The .TEL extension will launch in early December 2008. This extension could cause harm to .MOBI. It will be interesting to see how this extension will be adopted and used in comparison to .MOBI. The main idea behind the .TEL extension is: Integration of any and all means of [...]

Opinion: Sending Domains to Auction At Sedo

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:14:59 +0000

I don’t know who came up with this idea, but it seems to be a new trend of 2008. Several domainers came up with the idea to send your domain to auction by posting the starting bid at Sedo. Which seems ok when you first think about it. Now the topic of shill bidding arises. [...]

New Domain Auciton Site – BQB.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:56:03 +0000

Finally, a fresh new marketplace. I came across BQB.com, which stands for Better Quality Business. This is a auction site, similar to Afternic and Sedo, where you can list your domain names for sale. The best part about this website is that there are no fees. The only time you have to pay a fee [...]

Afternic – Another Hoax Sale

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:03:26 +0000

Once again, another domain has been listed on Afternic that has turned out to be a hoax. This time it was Auto.com. This domain was listed on Afternic, with a BIN price of only $10,000. Who in there right mind would pass this baby? A fellow NamePros member decided to take the gamble. He knew [...]

NamePros Approaches 90,000 Members

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:28:04 +0000

Our good friends at NamePros, have done it again. We reported to you in early 2007, that NamePros had passed 50,000 members. In just a little over a year, NamePros has doubled in size. Now if that is not impressive, I don’t know what is. We have noticed several changes over at NamePros. They recently [...]