Afternoon, Want to know what Juan Calle thinks of Domainers after taking MILLIONS of our dollars??? You are not much more than a “SQUATTER”! Calle: $30 price: “Deters Domainers from Cybersquatting.” He clarified his comments on his blog later on but just seems to have dug a deeper hole: “But, if you’re a cybersquatter, or [...]

The Week of Domaining In Review: May 11, 2012. The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you. Google Wants to Patent Making…, ConnectedWorld.com UDRP Challenged in Court…, Jewelry.co Gets $24,000 Bid On…, ICANN Targets Reopening Generic Top-level…, General Counsel Christine Jones Leaving…, Go Daddy Applies for .godaddy…, Domain Holdings Group Lands Exclusive…, If You Don’t [...]

I have been taking a break lately and I’m still not sure if I will continue writing as much as I did but I will see. Anyway, Andrew over at DNW.com reported on May 2, 2012 that the domain name GoFurther.com had sold for $10,000 at Sedo to a Mark Monitor client…. well, that client [...]

Had a great day yesterday.  Nursery was packed and my daughter’s school won the Middle School State Championship in track and field.  I always felt that winning a few state championships when I was younger was a key to my developing a little confidence and realization that if you keep trying to get better, you [...]

I often hear and read critical and/or snide comments about various non-.com domain registries and how many are presumed to be failures. Some people seem to think that if a registry doesn’t have millions of domain names registered and/or if the aftermarket for a particular registry’s domain names is weak, that the registry is a [...]

Morning Folks!! On Tuesday I published our response that we submitted to WIPO and our “Friends” in Brazil. Today I am making that link public. Interestingly enough, just this morning I heard of another domain win with the complaintant also being from Brazil when Mike Berkens sent me this link. I think we need to [...]

Most developers build a site, increase readership and then sell advertising space. Unless you own an ultra-premium geographic domain name like FrenchRiviera.com, in which case the brand alone is enough to set up meetings with some of the most exclusive potential advertisers in the region. Toby Hardy bought FrenchRiviera.com in 2009 and, in partnership with [...]

Asking for a domain name to be cancelled is one of the options a complainant has when filing a UDRP. Kevin S. Wiley of Gant & Hicks, PLLC, represented NFL superstar Adrian Peterson in a UDRP filing for AdrianPetersonOnline.com, and he requested a cancellation instead of requesting a transfer of the domain name. Mr. Wiley [...]

A ton of great names on the board today. Even I get in the action today with a few names at auction.  Sedo has an auction ending today but since its not my job to advertise their auctions I’ll let you decide which names are any good (many aren’t, a few are).  I listed the [...]

Farmville lovers may get a old, new game to play pretty soon! Farmville 2 According to some recent changes with the domain name Farmville2.com, it would appear that Zynga is getting its ducks in a row to launch a second series of its super popular game Farmville. Farmville2.com was not owned by Zynga and was [...]