Domain Name News

The Week of Domaining In Review: February 22, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Me…., Google; Linkedin; Amazon; Bmw; Dupont;…, Best Selling Author & Social…, Gucci Wins UDRP On 71…, Moniker Has a New CEO:…, SteelBuildings.com: an Example of What’s…, New gTLD Registrations Top 125k…, PeopleBrowsr Tones It Down in…, Board Confirms: ICANN Seeks Non-US…, .wiki Picks Namejet.com for Sunrise…, .org Adds 206k Registrations; Up…, The New gTLD .hiv Project…, .uno Wants to Be The…, Verisign Gets Patent for Recovery…, CentralNic Inks Agreement With Domain…, .music New Top Level Domain…, Dot Desi Reseller, LLC Selects…, Sedo 2013 Annual Market Study, Insurance.pro Decision Acknowledges Limits On…, CentralNic Gets Its Foot in…, Aeropostale Files Uniform Rapid Suspension…, Candy Crush Saga Maker King.com…, RPG Life loses battle for…, JD.com Might Have Sold For…, Latest Top Level Domain Related…, NCC Buys .trust New gTLD…, ARI Parent Goes All Surfer…, Afternic Changes Payment Thresholds, Ends…, ICANN Heading to Geneva After…, M+M Sees 200,000 .london Names…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: Strategy, Marketing and Leadership Lessons for New gTLD Registries and Investors

  Many believe the .CO registry is the “poster child” for how a new top-level domain answers all the above questions and is succeeding in the minds of individuals, businesses and entrepreneurs. That makes the top-level domain a better investment than many, if not most, other top-level domains other than .com.

  With new gTLDs going live every week for the upcoming couple of years, this interview contains critical information that both new registry operators and investors alike should familiarize themselves with.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: February 15, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Registrars Adjust Registration Prices On…, IBM Wins First New Top…, .shabaka Faces Many Challenges Bringing…, .CEO Starts Sunrise Today &…, Tucows On New TLDs, 2013…, IBM Wins Its URS On…, UDRP Filed Over ThamesRivers.com, Tucows Reports: Revenue Up 11%…, .photography, On Day One, Becomes…, The .com Firewall: Is a…, BusinessForSale.com Survives UDRP, .web and .webs: “There Can…, Brandshield Raises $1.4 Million &…, ICANN Plays “Make Believe” With…, Mike Daniels Former NSI Chairman:…, ICANN Reveals gTLD Objections Appeals…, .toyko & .nagoya Selects Pool.com…, EU Guns for ICANN’s Relationship…, .vegas to Launch Summer of…, Breaking: The EU Wants Global…, DomainHoldings Launches New Ad Exchange…, 2nd Dispute Filed Over New…, Delegation Wait Time Varies Wildly…, Video Game Industry Fails to…, First Aftermarket of .guru Domains…, .club Holds Winter Domain Name…, New Top Level Domain Name…, How Common Words Like Pizza,…, CentralNic Appoints Experienced Domain Name…, .photography Beating .camera, Rightside Registry Offers Its Own…, Company Uses UDRP to Go…, Universal Postal Union Loses Objections…, ICANN Says Brands are at…, Sedo is Ready & Has…, New gTLD Committe Tells ICANN…, BidPal Cybersquatting Lawsuit is Either…, Verisign: We’re Not Afraid of…, Linkedin Acquires Bright.comThe latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: DNSeattle Keynote: The Shave Network – Building a Real Business on a Premium Domain Name – With Luke Webster

  In 2011, Luke Webster found an underserved niche in the $13 billion shaving industry: straight razors.

  He imported razors and sold them online using his vast experience in search engine marketing. As sales grew, so did his venture. When Webster came on DomainSherpa in March 2013, he shared that his business was grossing six figures per month.

  So when DomainSherpa produced the first domain name meetup in Seattle, DNSeattle, it was a no-brainer to invite Northern Idaho-based Webster to keynote on how he built a business on an exact-match domain name – including his experience and how his business has grown in the last year.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

Additional Resources

• DomainSherpa Review – Feb 13, 2014

  In this show:
  * A recently-purchased portfolio of four- and five-figure domains from a successful domain name investor and entrepreneur
  * 15 mostly two word .com domains in the pre-release at NameJet are reviewed
  * We switch up the lightening round from “Registered or Available” to “Name That Price” and crown a winner
  * A fantastic discussion in the After Show about Mike Berkens’ recent sale of Malls.com for $350,000
  * New gTLD purchases by Sherpas
  * Trademark registrations of new gTLDs
  * Analyzing drop lists
  * Finding trending topics
  * And much more

  This is the show where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors and talk about the value of specific domain names. By listening to the Sherpas, we expand our thought process so we can become more successful investors ourselves.

  We’re joined by four Domain Sherpas: Adam Dicker, Michael Berkens, Page Howe and Rick Schwartz.

  Read/Watch »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: February 8, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Verisign Reports Revenue Growth and…, Versign Reports: 127.2 Million .com/.net…, GoDaddy Starts Using GoDaddy.uno Domain…, IBM Files First Uniform Rapid…, IBM Files Urs Complaints Against…, TMCH Sees Cybersquatting in 1&1′s…, Google’s .search Top Level Domain…, U.S. Government Weighs in On…, Slam Strategy: “Dotcom Means Nothing…, New gTLDs Take Over The…, MarkMonitor Allegedly Hacked By Syrian…, Yes, There is Cybersquatting in…, First Eight gTLDs Have 26,000…, .guru Rockets to Over 10,000…, Kevin Newman Interviews Bill Sweetman…, Twitter Reports Earnings First Time…, Teamwork.com Buyer Explains Why $675,000…, 17 Year Old Vernet.com Saved…, 7 Year Old StableTable.com Saved…, New TLDs are Here But…, Insurance.pro Saved in UDRP, Paris Hilton Wins Case to…, Rightside Announces They Have Over…, Donuts Made About $750,000 From…, European Commission Weights in On…, Donuts and Famous Four Lose…, Calzone Makes Monitoring New TLD…, Meet The First New gTLD…, UDRP Filed On Y8.net; Entouragemovie.com;…, Sedo Co-founders Invest in App…, Go Daddy Bodybuilder Ad Needed…, Domain Registration Agreements are Getting…, Super Bowl Ad Winners; Twitter…, How GoDaddy Found Gwen, The…, GoDaddy Super Bowl Ads Once…, DomainNameSales.com Average Sale $15k; Set…, Go Daddy Tightens Security After…, NC State University Loses Domain…, Digging in On Donuts’ Sunrise:…, TLDH Raises $33.6 Million for…, Nominet Names The Date for…, TLDH Raises $33.6m to Fight…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: What You Can Learn About Hand Registering Domain Names from the Domain King – With Rick Schwartz

  More often than not, hand registered domain name portfolios submitted to the DomainSherpa Review are not considered to be valuable by our panel of experts. Maybe there are a few domains worth keeping out of 50 submitted. Maybe.

  Today, we’re turning the tables on one of the regular reviewers on the DomainSherpa Review.

  Past Domain Sherpa and frequent DomainSherpa Review expert Rick Schwartz opens up his list of 390 recently hand registered domain names, and shares his thought process for how and why he registered the domains.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

Additional Resources

• DomainSherpa Review – Feb 6, 2014

  In this show:
  * 70 political domain names are discussed and valued
  * 20 nice .net domains in the pre-release at NameJet are reviewed
  * “Registered or Available” game — we crown two kings
  * A fantastic discussion in the After Show about keeping pairs of domains (.com, .net + .org)
  * Starting today as a new domain name investor for $80

  This is the show where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors and talk about the value of specific domain names. By listening to the Sherpas, we expand our thought process so we can become more successful investors ourselves.

  We’re joined by four Domain Sherpas: Adam Dicker, Michael Berkens, Page Howe and Rick Schwartz.

  Read/Watch »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: January 31, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Pre-seed.com Lost in UDRP to…, Google Reports: Paid Clicks Up…, Day 1 Donuts Trademark Review:…, 17 Year Old InterBanking.com Saved…, .brussels & .vlaanderen Pick Pool…, Here’s Andrew Allemann Honestly Thinks…, Nominet Sets June 10 Date…, Want to See The New…, Directi Joins Domain.com Family in…, Neustar Reports & Shares are…, ICANN Labs Takes a Breather…, Donuts’ EAP Opens Today, But…, EU Body Tells ICANN That…, .uno Wants to Be The…, Public Company Files UDRP On…, Moment of Truth As First…, What New Web Domain Names…, .club Sunrise Period Starts Today, UNiDAYS Guilty of Reverse Domain…, Chinese ICN TLDs Plan Two…, 7 New Donuts gTLDs Available…, Trademark Holder Loses UDRP Bid…, Captain American, Wolverine, and X-men…, GoDaddy’s 2nd Super Bowl Ad…, ICANN Makes Progress On Data…, First European Registrar to Get…, DotAsia and Momentum Events Announce…, Amazon Gets a Win in…, New TLDs Disappear From GoDaddy…, Buydomains Defends UDRP Brought By…, Daniel Schindler of Donuts Says…, Traffic Picks Halloween for Its…, Dailymail.com “Sold for As Much…, Web.com Has 50 New gTLD…, Scottish gTLD May Launch Before…, Scottish gTLD May Launch Before…, Rightside Bans Company “Ridicule” in…, Donuts Tops $5 Million in…, Registered in 1994 Graceland.com Hit…, Did You Know Apple Let…, IBM/Deloitte Goes With Trademark-Clearninghouse.uno &…, Trademark Clearinghouse Using .uno to…, Uniregistry’s New TLD Launch Plans…, Man Who Sold Teamwork.com for…, Uniregistry Bans Front-page Porn in…, Gripe Sites and PPC Banned…, Ten More New gTLDs Go…, Google Unveiled Smart Contact Lens,…, Why Google Wants to Give…, Verisign: Rise in Value of…, Domainfest Returns to Hollywood, Plans…, Two .xxx Domain Names Sell…, Domain Name Conference Planned in…, Porn Won’t Be Allowed On…, Nat Cohen Sells Lgg.com for…, Cobb International Guilty of Reverse…, Sell Bikes? There’s a Web…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: StockPhoto.com: Pre-paying $250,000 for a Lifetime of Customer Traffic – With Jon Yau

  Instead of hand registering a $9 brandable domain name like ShutterStock.com or iStockPhoto.com and paying for CPC marketing forever, Jon Yau plunked down $250,000 of his family’s savings to purchase StockPhoto.com – a domain name with 50,000 worldwide exact-match searches per month.

  Yau considers this investment a “pre-payment” for the endless stream of potential customers that visit his website daily through direct navigation. And with plans to continue to grow his photography database, he expects only to increase his customer conversion rate and revenue.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

Additional Resources

• DomainSherpa Review, Sherpa Challenge – Jan 30, 2014

  In this show:
  * “The Sherpa Challenge” is accepted — four Sherpas show what domain names they’ve hand registered, drop caught and purchased
  * 20 nice domains going to auction at NameJet soon are evaluated
  * “Registered or Available” game — see who won today’s competition

  This is the show where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors and talk about the value of specific domain names. By listening to the Sherpas, we expand our thought process so we can become more successful investors ourselves.

  We’re joined by four Domain Sherpas: Adam Dicker, Michael Berkens, Page Howe and Rick Schwartz.

  Read/Watch »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: January 25, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Google Unveiled Smart Contact Lens,…, Why Google Wants to Give…, Verisign: Rise in Value of…, Domainfest Returns to Hollywood, Plans…, Two .xxx Domain Names Sell…, Domain Name Conference Planned in…, Porn Won’t Be Allowed On…, Nat Cohen Sells Lgg.com for…, Cobb International Guilty of Reverse…, Sell Bikes? There’s a Web…, Cartier Sues Nominet Hoping to…, Web.com: Weblock Program Will Be…, Harvard Business School Study: Display…, Quartz: “The Biggest Land Rush…, Confirmed: There Will Not Be…, UDRP Panel Refuses to Give…, GoDaddy Posts Its First 2014…, Donuts Has Bad Luck of…, Go Daddy Turns to Man…, TKO: There Will Be No…, TeamWork.com Sold for $675,000 to…, Company Wins UDRP On Domain…, DotConnectAfrica Files for ICANN Independent…, Guy Buys iSound.com for $31k…, Did Expedia Get Caught Trying…, Big Company’s Website Suspended Thanks…, Booking.com Which Applied for .booking…, Namesilo.com Becomes 2nd Domain Registrar…, Matt Cutts On Guest Blogging,…, What Wordpress Founder Matt Mullenweg…, Pool.com Gets Contract for .wien…, Candy Crush Maker Now Looks…, Trademark Owner Loses Bid to…, UDRP Panel Oversteps Its Authority…, Panel: .kosher Top Level Domain…, Famous Four Open Its First…, Bing: Domains Just Not That…, Namecheap: a Top Ten Registrar?, ICANN BC Committee Tells ICANN…, Donuts Comments On ICANN Last…, New gTLDs Top 100 As…, Google Removed 350 Million Bad…, Search Marketers Playing a Virtual…, Yogaglo Gets Defensive With Domains…, .health Applicants Survive Community Objections, Donuts Loses .insurance But Can…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: Why Numeric Domain Names Are Worth More Than You Think – With Giuseppe Graziano

  Listed among the DNJournal.com top domain name sales of 2013 are 114.com for $2.1 million, 88888.com for $245,000 and 1001.com for $100,000.

  I would not have paid registration fees for any of these domain names, so I clearly don’t understand the value of domain names comprised only of numbers, usually referred to as numeric domain names.

  Luckily there’s an expert ready to share what’s behind those high sale prices and who’s buying 80 percent of the numeric domain names.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

Additional Resources

• DomainSherpa Review – Jan 23, 2014

  In this show:
  * 118 “really cool brandable” domain names are reviewed
  * 15 nice domains going to auction at NameJet soon are evaluated
  * Both sides of the “plural versus singular” debate as it relates to NoseJobs.com
  * “Registered or Available” game — see who won today’s competition (new winner!)

  This is the show where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors and talk about the value of specific domain names. By listening to the Sherpas, we expand our thought process so we can become more successful investors ourselves.

  We’re joined by four Domain Sherpas: Adam Dicker, Michael Berkens, Page Howe and Rick Schwartz.

  Read/Watch »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: January 18, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

HKIRC Launches .hk Lock Better…, Google Registry Tells ICANN They…, Verisign: .com Registrations Blow Past…, Google Unveils Publisher Plugin for…, Nominet Bans Rape Domains, GoDaddy Announces New CIO, Uniregistry Wants ICANN to Slow…, Details On .uno, .luxury, .xyz,…, Net Neutrality Ruled Unenforceable, Logicboxes Releases Registry Wallet for…, Eight More New gTLDs Delegated, TLDH Opens Up List of…, TLDH to Invest in Rival…, In The Face of Confusion,…, Go Daddy CEO Calls Current…, Heritage Auctions and Rightofthedot.com Partner…, Demand Media Files With SEC…, GoDaddy Signs Registry-registrar Agreement With…, UDRP Panel Hands Over KnowhowInsurance.com…, New TLDs Come Out With…, Panelist Awards .Charity to Famous…, You Snooze, You Lose New…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: Rapid Prototyping to Test Your Business Idea for Free on Facebook – With Raj Beri

  We all have domain names that are begging to be developed. Or an idea that we would love to test and see if potential customers like it enough that we can build a profitable business.

  But what if we don’t want to design the user experience, hire a developer, build a website, sign up for hosting, or spend any money launching? Can it be done?

  It can. And Raj Beri has returned to the show to tell us exactly how to do it. Listen in as Beri describes how to rapidly prototype and test a business idea, including with what industries or with what products or services, and how successful it can be.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: January 10, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Uh Oh: .basketball Community Objection…, Mediapost: “Google Holds Right Cards…, Direct Nav Company Files Patent…, Another Domain Name Escrow Service…, CentralNic and Co.com Ink Deal…, CentralNic to Manage .co.com’s Back-end…, Go Daddy Fires Back at…, Gold is Not a Clearly…, Brazilian Company Guilty of Reverse…, UDRP Panel Orders Hp.nu to…, Namescon Will Be Biggest New…, Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone Launches…, Luxottica to Acquire Glasses.com Domain…, Cisco Acquires a Domain in…, New Escrow Service Agreed.com Launches…, Republican National Committee Loses Fight…, New gTLD Launches: Registrar Coverage…, gTLD Market Passes 150 Million Names, GoDaddy’s Afternic Gets Another Large…, The Bob & Renee Parsons…, Domain Name Game.cn Sells for…, Overstock Gets Hit With $6.42…, Afternic Adds China’s 2nd Largest…, Donuts Picks Young British Firm…, ICANN is Hiring for Positions…, Gucci Wins 184 .org Domains…, Gucci Wins 182 Domain Names…, CNN Covers The Selfie Olympics…, Latest Go Daddy Phishing Attack…, Washington Post’s 2014 in and…, .me Announces .me Loyalty Program…, Donuts Appeals Ridiculous .hospital Objection, Vienna is The First City…, .email and Two Other New…, Google’s and Cleveland Clinic’s .med…, SeekingAlpha: “New gTLD’s Pose No…, GoDaddy Gets Sixth Patent for…, Neustar & Web.com Make Forbes…, Before Launching Its New Home…, Aio Quitely Acquires Aio.com But…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: .Club: 1 Million Registrations by Year 1, 5 Million by Year 5 – With Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass

  .Club is targeting one million registrations by the end of Year 1, and five million registrations by the end of Year 5. And they have the focus, marketing plans and public relations in place to help achieve their goals.

  In this interview, .Club CEO Colin Campbell and CMO Jeff Sass discuss the winning auction (in which they beat out Donuts and Merchant Law Group with a bid somewhere less than $5 million), their registry mission, potential customer base, customer adoption, marketing, availabilities phases, valuation of both their domains and .com equivalents (e.g., wine.club versus wineclub.com), and much more.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

Additional Resources

• DomainSherpa Review – Jan 9, 2014

  In this show:
  * 2 reader-submitted domain names are reviewed (one Challenge, one geo-related)
  * The DomainSherpa Challenge is taken again
  * 25 Names pre-auction at NameJet
  * A new “Registered or Available” king is crowned, and much more!

  This is the show where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors and talk about the value of specific domain names. By listening to the Sherpas, we expand our thought process so we can become more successful investors ourselves.

  We’re joined by four Domain Sherpas: Adam Dicker, Michael Berkens, Page Howe and Rick Schwartz.

  Read/Watch »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: January 3, 2014.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

.email and Two Other New…, Google’s and Cleveland Clinic’s .med…, SeekingAlpha: “New gTLD’s Pose No…, GoDaddy Gets Sixth Patent for…, Neustar & Web.com Make Forbes…, Before Launching Its New Home…, Aio Quitely Acquires Aio.com But…, Sedo and Tucows Ink Domain…, New York Times Interview Vin…, Tucows Executes Reverse Stock Split,…, These are The First Four…, 10 Year Old Domain Klickerz.com…, 7578.com Hit With UDRP, Anti-google Group Fairsearch.org Loses Objection…, Anti-google Group Fairsearch.org Loses Objection…, First New gTLD Sunrise Ends…, .ninja Springs to Life As…, Verisign is Taking Back Expired…, ICANN Has Spent $120 Million…, The Oscars Files Another Suit…, NAR Pitches .realtor Domains (Free…, HomeAway Sues Airbnb Over BirdhousesThe latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: 7 Interviews to Help You Build Wealth in 2014

  All domain name investors say their parking revenue has decreased over the past few years. Stop complaining and do something about it.

  The last two weeks of the year are the perfect time to think strategically about building a business that creates cash flow in 2014.

  The DomainSherpa editorial staff has selected seven interviews — our must-watch recommendations for entrepreneurs and wantrapreneurs.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

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The Week of Domaining In Review: December 27, 2013.

The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

The Oscars Files Another Suit…, NAR Pitches .realtor Domains (Free…, HomeAway Sues Airbnb Over Birdhouses, Mack Trucks Plays Grinch &…, Registrar Bigrock Gets ICANN Terminated…, Porn.xxx Ranks On 1st Page…, Calle: New TLDs Will Be…, WIPO Panel Awards StAndrews.com Domain…, St. Andrews The Golf Course…, Applicant Says .islam Ban Would…, Is ICANN Going to Hold…, Today’s New gTLD Passes, Signings…, New gTLD Price Wars As…, VeriSign Inc. (VRSN): New Analyst…, Crunching the new gTLD numbers, Chinese Premium Domain Names Available…, KPMG to Replace KPMG.com With…, WIPO Pats Itself On The…, More Stupid Government Interference With…, Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) UDRP…, This One Graphic Threatens to…, Extortion.sucks — Vox Pop CEO…, You’ve Got to Be Kidding:…, After Asking for $40k to…, Indonesia Will Roll Out Shorter…, Clear Examples of Inconsistency in…, UK Bans 1and1.com New gTLD…, Applicants Spank IO in .health…, 1&1′s New gTLD Ads Banned…, Donuts Officially Richer Than God…, .buzz and .support Go LiveThe latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

This Week’s DomainSherpa Interview

• VIDEO: 7 Interviews to Help You Build Wealth in 2014

  All domain name investors say their parking revenue has decreased over the past few years. Stop complaining and do something about it.

  The last two weeks of the year are the perfect time to think strategically about building a business that creates cash flow in 2014.

  The DomainSherpa editorial staff has selected seven interviews — our must-watch recommendations for entrepreneurs and wantrapreneurs.

  Watch The Full Show Now »

Additional Resources

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