This is the first part of a three part series that I will release by the next few days on the domain parking survey that concluded a few weeks ago. that was precisely the same questionnaire that I used in 2007 and compared to 2008 the results proved to be surprising.
I would first like to […]

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, DC – October 31, 2008 – dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Web domain, today announced that industry veteran Pinkard Alan Pinky grade has been appointed to the position of Director of Global Domain Sales at dotMobi.
grade, who has more than 12 years experience in the domain industry, is […]

ICANN has announced today that it has signed an exchange of letters with the country cipher top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .cc-Cocos (Keeling) Islands, eNIC Cocos ( Keening) Islands Pty Ltd.
The Accountability Framework program provides two mechanisms by which ccTLD managers can formalise their relationship with ICANN. The first is an Accountability Framework document […]

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, DC - dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Web domain, today announced that industry veteran Pinkard Alan Pinky make has been appointed to the position of Director of Global Domain Sales at dotMobi.
type, who has more than 12 years experience in the domain industry, is charged with building […]

contemporary Domainer Domainer Mardi Gras Conference theme and agenda has been posted (http://domainermardigras.com/?page_id=8)! The theme of the Domainer Mardi Gras is Risk Management for the contemporary Domainer .
Today’s contemporary Domainer is being impacted by rising domain name registration fees, approval of new Top Level Domains, changes in monetization rules by advertising network […]

The previous articles in that series on domains can be reviewed by clicking on the following hyperlinks:
Part 2 - The domain bubble (http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php/20081027478/MyBlog/index.php/20080818456/MyBlog/Part-2-The-domain-bubble.html)
Part 3 - What caused the domain bubble? (http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php/20081027478/MyBlog/index.php/20080915460/MyBlog/Part-3-What-caused-the-bubble.html)
Part 4 - Domains and the sub-prime shock (http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php/20081027478/MyBlog/index.php/20080918461/MyBlog/Part-4-Domains-and-the-sub-prime-shock.html)
Part 5 - Domain values and opportunities (http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php/20081027478/MyBlog/index.php/20080924468/MyBlog/Part-5-domain-values-and-opportunities.html)
Part 6 - The Pressures on PPC (http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php/20081027478/MyBlog/index.php/20081003470/MyBlog/Part-6-the-pressures-on-PPC.html)
Part 7 […]

Another interesting online domain tool can be found at Exactfactor (http://www.exactfactor.com/). They have developed an On-Line SEO tools that gives the websites owners the ability to automatically and easily check their websites keyword position. Instead of manually looking for the position of your website in the Search Engines, Exactfactor provides a simple and energetic online […]

We came accross an interesting new domain tool. SpyFu (http://www.spyfu.com/Kombat/) is a competitive intelligence tool to evaluate and compare domains. It shows for selected domains the top organic and paid search keywords, estimations about the ad spends and plus allows reverse look-ups by starting off with the keyword or keyword phrase and the top sites […]

VERO BEACH, Florida, - North Carolina-based Himalaya Rankings, LLC and John Sweeney have been ordered to transfer five domains to Private Communities Registry, Inc., doing business as PrivateCommunities.com, by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a provider of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy by the World Wide Web Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
On August […]

TORONTO, - Tucows Inc., (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) a global provider of domain names, mail and other World Wide Web services, today announced the launch of YummyNames (http://www.yummynames.com), a new service providing exclusive access to a large selection of premium domain names from the Tucows Domain Name Portfolio. Created particularly with marketers in mind, YummyNames allows folks […]