Small businesses make a key mistake when selecting web design firms. Here’s a common mistake small businesses make. They know they need a web site, so they contact a couple web design firms in town. The web designers pitch them on a project that includes site design, web hosting, and registering the domain name. The ...

Kentucky ruling brings up old debate about switching to offshore registrars. A blog post over at Wall Street Journal today titled “Online Businesses Subject to Local Laws…Everywhere” discusses the Kentucky gambling domain seizure. It mentions that the businesses who have had domains seized don’t have any presence in Kentucky. One commentor wrote “…just time to quit ...

Popular site offers way to liquidate domain names you no longer want. Last month I wrote about how I was trimming some unwanted domain names from my portfolio. A couple people emailed to ask which domains so they could buy them from me cheap. That’s great, but also an inefficient process. Popular domain blog aggregation ...

Recent sales at Sedo show that you should pay attention as deals abound. If you haven’t been watching domain auctions lately, you might be missing out on some great values. Consider these Sedo/GreatDomains sales completed over the past week: Fifties.com for $5,099 and BananaSplit.com $3,100. Now these aren’t the world’s greatest domain ...

This news just in from the DOMAINfest email newsletter.  The DOMAINfest website now has a beautiful and easy to use site design and some exciting new information and features for the the upcoming Global event to be hosted in Hollywood, CA during January 27th through the 30th. Preliminary Agenda - Just Released! Agenda highlights include five hard ...

TBILISI, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian TV channels broadcasting news in Georgia are still blocked, although restrictions on Russian-domain websites have been lifted, the Civil Georgia information portal reported on Wednesday....

Google hopes to solve on Tuesday afternoon a problem that has kept recent subscribers to its Apps suite from accessing their new Gmail accounts. After an organization completes the process to transfer its domain to Apps, it typically takes about 48 hours for its end-users' Gmail accounts to turn on, a Google spokesman said. [ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News ......

A look at the coming launch of new top level domain names and what it means for trademark holders, domainers, and the internet community. The overview of the new TLD (top level domain) process below is based on my research and a discussion last week with ICANN’s gTLD Program Director Karla Valente. Opinions are my ...

Yes, that is a title of a real, current legal case and controversy. (And, no, the links in this post are not spam… mostly gambling news sites seem to be reporting on this.)...

The global economic crisis could be good news for one eBay seller who has just placed the domain name afterthebailout.com up for auction on the site ......