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January 19, 2012 by Oz Domainer

This is a shout out to my mate Morgan Linton from MorganLinton.com Morgan is one of the most prolific bloggers in the domain space and his blog/s are always great to read and very very informative. Like myself, Morgan is a lover of WordPress and its power & ease of use. I have close to [...]

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An Article About Domain Names

Well, the title says it all! This article is going to be about domain names, just a little bit of different things floating around in my head that I didn’t want to write about in single articles. Juice.com which is owned by Marksmen (or may be brokered by them, but I’m not sure why whois [...]
January 28, 2012 by Jamie Zoch

TossPillows.com – A Buying Opportunity?

I spent the morning at the New York International Gift Fair piers, and one of the things I noticed was that there were a lot of companies selling toss pillows. There were all sorts of fabrics, colors, sizes, and designs – literally thousands of toss pillows. As I usually do when I come home from [...]
January 28, 2012 by Elliot Silver

The State of the Industry January 2012: DN Journal’s Biggest Annual Cover Story is Now Out

For the 8th consecutive year, DNJournal.com kicks off the New Year with our annual State of the Industry Cover Story, an endeavor that brought together 15 experts and company leaders from across the industry to get their thoughts on the key trends of the past year and what they believe is in store in the year ahead.
January 27, 2012 by Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com

Moniker publishes final DOMAINfest auction list

Two more valuable domain names added to auction. Moniker has published the final list of domains for next week’s live domain auction during DOMAINfest, as well as the online auction to follow. Bargain.com and Democracy.com have been added to the auction. Bargain.com’s reserve is north of $750,000 while Democracy.com is available for somewhere between $100,000 [...]
January 27, 2012 by Andrew Allemann

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VeriSign plans to apply for about 12 new top level domain names

Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, said on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com. In other [...]
January 26, 2012 by Andrew Allemann

2011 was record breaking year for .com and .net domain registrations

Over 32 million new domain registrations in .com and .net last year. 2011 set a record for new .com/.net domain registrations with over 32 million registration, VeriSign announced on its investor conference call this afternoon: In the fourth quarter, we added 1.9 million net names to the domain name base, and we processed 7.9 million [...]
January 26, 2012 by Andrew Allemann

GoDaddy reveals Super Bowl commercial featuring the Pussycat Dolls

You won’t have to wait until the Super Bowl to see this year’s commercials. It’s likely you’ve already seen GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial featuring .co. GoDaddy has linked to it from its home page for about a week. Now the company is releasing its second half commercial on the web, too. The spot, dubbed “CLOUD”, [...]
January 26, 2012 by Andrew Allemann

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.Com Registrations Pass the 100 Million Mark – Final Agenda Set for DOMAINfest Global

Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: .Com registrations pass another milestone - the 100 million mark. Plus, DOMAINfest Global releases the final agenda for next week's big show in Santa Monica and domain sales giants Afternic and Sedo have announcements about the latest expansion of their respective platforms.
January 26, 2012 by Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com

Tucows Joins Afternic DLS

I read a press release this afternoon, and it should come as good news for Tucows domain registrants who are looking to sell their domain names. The company has been added to Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion network, meaning that it is easier to list domain names for sale across the full DLS [...]
January 26, 2012 by Elliot Silver