ICANN should heed the FTC’s warnings about the potential dangers of the proposed domain name system and ultimately decide against the proposed free-for-all.

Domain industry professionals, firearms dealers and sporting goods retailers have a rare opportunity this week to secure the rights to premium domain name BuyAmmoOnline.com for a fraction of its appraised value.

I am please to announce on this the evening of the tenth of June, 2011, that the domain name PanaxGinseng.net has been sold in a private transaction. The two-word, keyword-rich, high-quality sub-premium domain name contains the exact term “panax ginseng”. Panax Ginseng is an herb (a root to be specific) that is commonly used in [...]

I recently came across a new comment on an older post in which the commenter requested that I provide a working definition of what exactly constitutes a premium domain name. I wrote a post about this very topic some time ago, but re-reading it today, there is very little substantively speaking that I would change [...]

Domain Appraisals Domain Appraisals are primarily selling tools to help market the domains to the end consumer, as well as to help companies like NameMedia (owner of BuyDomains) low-ball domain sellers.  They aren’t likely to impress anyone with experience or success within the industry.  For the price of the appraisal, one could register several new [...]

As the calender year winds to a close, the domain industry appears to have weathered the financial storm that is the year 2010.  With just a few days remaining until the start of 2011, the industry has compiled a very impressive list of notable sales from the past twelve months. While some of the big-money [...]

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has apparently been shutting down dozens of websites and seizing control over the respective domain names over the past few days, according to the website Torrent Freak. The Feds appear to be targeting sites that allegedly help facilitate [...]

The total cost amounts to as little as $7 per month standard hosting fee.  One deluxe hosting account from GoDotYourself.com is sufficient to host as many sites as you want, so long as you don’t exceed the astronomical bandwidth limitations.  If you do manage to exceed bandwidth restrictions, pat yourself on the back and take [...]

The domain name Guns.com has sold for a whopping $800,000 (U.S. Dollars). The sale of the premium, one-word domain name about guns was brokered by Moniker, according to DNJournal’s year-to-date sales reports. The enormous selling price makes Guns.com the fourth-highest sale of a domain name to occur in 2010. The others are (in descending order): [...]

Over the years since I first began doing web-related work, I’ve seen a dramatic increase in the buzz, chatter, and overall popularity of a subject with which I am intricately familiar. That subject is vitamin d3, a specific form of vitamin d that is superior in terms of its health benefits to other forms of [...]