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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This post began as a response I received in the comments section of the recent post about the sale of the premium domain name TheMedicalSupplyStore.com. Jaime from DotWeekly.com took exception to my use of the term “premium” in describing the post about the medical supply store domain. Jaime’s comment read: Just because a domain makes [...]

Premium Domain Sales:  TheMedicalSupplyStore.com FatLester.com is pleased to announce that the premium domain name TheMedicalSupplyStore.com has sold! Some of you veteran domainers may be questioning my use of the term “premium” to describe TheMedicalSupplyStore.com. The standard argument is that because the domain contains four words (nor four letters), and is preceded by the word “the”, [...]

List of 10 Funny Domain Names that are For Sale Domain names can be used for purposes other than to host personal and business websites, and to make money buying, selling and trading them. Many domainers (including myself) register domain names solely for the purposes of entertainment. For me, registering humorous domains and then developing [...]

Premium Domain Names about Guns and Ammo For Sale By: FatLester I am the first to admit that those gold-mine domain registrations from the early-to-mid 1990′s are largely a thing of the past. The odds of acquiring a genuinely premium domain name by way of registration is slim-to-none. However, every now and again, the stars [...]