Company to hold month long auction with just 50 domains. Moniker is holding a premium domain name auction starting next month that will be limited to 50 top domains. The auction will run for a full month beginning October 1820. Domain submissions are due by October 13. The company is looking for good 1-2 word ...

www. will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain. That’s why you usually see ads that just promote something like DNW.com instead of www.DNW.com. People know it’s a web address because of the ...

Mobile domain reaches five year anniversary. Five years ago yesterday .Mobi launched its landrush period, officially opening the doors to what would become a wild roller coaster for domain investors. Remember Flowers.mobi? I quickly came full circle on .mobi. I remember meeting the .mobi team at DomainRoundtable in Seattle and thinking “Wow, this is a ...

These figures from domain name management specialist Group NBT were overshadowed by news that private equity group Hg Capital has offered 550p cash per share for the group through a scheme of arrangement – a bid that's recommended by NBT's board....

Big milestone for world’s largest domain name registrar. Last week I said Go Daddy was going to hit 50 million domains sometime this week. Turns out the world’s insatiable appetite for domain names made it happen a bit faster than predicted: Go Daddy says it hit the milestone over the weekend. The lucky registrant who ...

Treatment of neurological conditions such as sleep–wake control, cognition, and depression could be possible by modulation of the TWIK-related acid-sensitive K+ ion channel (TASK-3, or K2P9.1)....

Why developing your domain names might be a bad idea. From time to time I read excellent blog posts that explain aspects of domaining much better than I can. Nat Cohen delivered yesterday with a post titled “The Dangers of Optimism -or- Don’t Develop“. His point in a nutshell: just because you’re a good domainer ...

Angolan ambassador to South Africa, Josefina Pitra Diakité, urged Monday in Luanda the need for higher interaction between both countries in the cultural domain, to facilitate possible business partnerships in other areas of mutual interest....

Parking company touts benefits over DNS. Domain parkers have only a few days left before the end of URL forwarding for Google parking. For most people that means switching to DNS parking. But there’s another option at some parking companies, including CNAME. CNAME parking basically lets you point the web traffic for a domain to ...

How to sell your portfolio in a hurry. A reader emailed me the other day asking if I’ve ever written about exit strategies for domainers. I don’t think I have, but it’s a good idea. So here it goes. The problem with exiting the domain industry. Most domain names aren’t very liquid. They can be ...