Category Archives: Domain News
New Generic Top Level Domains Getting Lots of Attention
Today is the first day ICANN is officially letting people apply for the “.yournamehere” totally flexible domains and there is quite a bit of hand wringing going on about how it will impact the domain ecosystem. The people promoting it, … Continue reading
New Google Domain Parking Flag
In a post to its “Inside Search” blog today, Google announced a new set of policies for indexing parked domains. While there were very few specifics, it is clearly not good news for people who use domain parking to generate … Continue reading
Clothes.com Domain for Amazon Include in Zappos Deal
Erick Schonfeld, at Techcrunch, noticed (When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came In The Box) that Amazon got a little extra bonus in its $928 million deal to by Zappos last month. The domain, clothes.com, had been purchased by Zappos … Continue reading
Comcast is Monetizing Domain Typos
Jeremy Kirk at PC World writes an article (Comcast Redirects Bad URLs to Pages With Advertising) explaining that Comcast will now be forwarding web visitors who mistype urls to a page designed to show advertising. Rather than providing a “did … Continue reading
Domain Monetization in a Micro-Hoo World
Microsoft and Yahoo have been trying to put a search deal together forever. Headlines indicate it’s heating up again. Andrew at Domain Name Wire (What Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Would Mean to Domainers) continues his speculation of what would happen if the … Continue reading
Inc Magazine Article on Domain Name Shortage
Max Chafkin at Inc Magazine (Good Domain Names Grow Scarce) writes about the shortage of “short, pronounceable names” for .com domains. His point is that small businesses are increasingly finding it difficult to register their targeted business name and are … Continue reading
Continued Domain Growth Slowdown
Andrew LaValle at the Wall Street Journal writes about VeriSign’s latest report on domain growth in the fourth quarter of 2008. The report says 10.1 million new names were registered, but that figure was down 17% from the same quarter … Continue reading
April Domain Sales Examples
It’s always interesting to look at the recent domain name sales transaction reports. DNJournal published a list of the highest domain sales prices during the first week of April 2008. Here are the highest priced domain sales for 2008 to … Continue reading
Booming Internet Real Estate Market
There was an interesting article by Thomas Claburn at InformationWeek yesterday about the increased market demand for cyber real estate, while traditional real estate markets are experiencing a market depression. In the first quarter of 2008, $38,029,543 in domain sales … Continue reading
Network Solutions Registering User Searched Domains
It is being widely reported by AP, Techcrunch, PC World, Computerworld, and others that Network Solutions is locking up domain names that potential buyers are researching on the Network Solutions site. NS registers the domain in their own name and … Continue reading