New resource for Domain Developers and Domain Industry Bloggers, The Yahoo! Style Guide

Yahoo! Style Guide

Domain developers and bloggers now have a resource - The Yahoo! Style Guide.  TechCrunch, Mashable and numerous other web sites are reporting the news.  According to Yahoo!, "Polished and expanded for its public debut, "The Yahoo! Style Guide" covers the basics of grammar and punctuation plus a … [Read more...]

Domain Names and Development, “Group Buying” Weekend Edition

"Daily Deals"

In the Hot world of "Group Buying" there have been a number of developments since my last blog.  There are a lot of news stories both in the Group Buying industry and Group Buying domain names. GroupOn buys GroupOn.se Name for $12K On June 16, the domain name GroupOn.se sold through Sedo. The … [Read more...]

Rick Schwartz switches gears from trading his domains to auctioning

Eat Shit

Before Rick Schwartz had announced his plans to auction off several of his .net and .org domain names, The Domain King had laid out plans to exchange several of his domain names out of his personal collection with other domain investors.  According to a recent post on his personal blog titled … [Read more...]

Like Some Domains, Social Media Vanity URLs can be unintentionally confusing like Twitter’s @BP

Twitter @ BP

Although Bryan Pendleton (the grad student, tinkerer and hacker) registered the vanity URL twitter.com/bp with Twitter early on, he's been the target of mistaken identity by people upset about the BP oil spill which continues to take a toll on the environment and economy. The official Twitter … [Read more...]

Hallpass Media launches another website from their Portfolio of Domains: VirtualPets.com (in Beta)

"Virtual Pets"

Hallpass Media run by Bill Kara, has launched its newest website, VirtualPets.com (currently in Beta). The casual game company that acquires and develops killer game properties unveiled VirtualPets.com earlier today, where casual gamers can adopt, dress up, care for, or play with their favorite zoo, … [Read more...]

Another CamRoulette.com Domain Name Sells for Big Bucks, This Time WebcamRoulette.com for $47,500

Webcam Roulette

Ron Jackson just posted his official weekly domain sales report, and according to the sales chart WebcamRoulette.com sold for $47,000 at the Moniker /iGaming auction held earlier this month. The highest domain sale of the auction was poker.ca for $400,000, in auction that had few reported sales … [Read more...]

IndependenceDay.com – unused internet property by 20th Century Fox, What a Shame

"Independence Day"

Independence Day, otherwise known as the Fourth of July here in the United States, commemorates the day that the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Contintental Congress on July 4, 1776.   Independence Day also happens to be a Fox Film that debuted in 1996 and at one point … [Read more...]

Domain King Rick Schwartz sells two more domains in the six figures, one hand registered for less $100

Sydney Hotels

It's not often that Rick Schwartz sells a domain name or least shares the sale publicly.  Since the nineties, he has only sold a handful of names out of his portfolio of thousands.  But the total sales for those domains is in the millions.  The Domain King, who got his start in 1995, with the … [Read more...]

Does anyone really care about the .CO landrush, asks Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney

.com Domain Names

Next week the .CO Landrush takes place starting June 21 through mid-July. General availability begins July 20 once the global sunrise and landrush processes are complete. Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney.com, recently wrote a post about the .co landrush and asked his readers whether anyone … [Read more...]

Professional Poker Player and Domainer, Dutch Boyd wins second WSOP Bracelet

"Dutch Boyd"

He did it again. Dutch Boyd the professional poker player and domainer has won his second WSOP bracelet.  He won his second bracelet this past Sunday in the six-handed limit hold 'em event and collected over $200,000 in winnings. The buy-in for the tournament was only: $2,500. Not a bad … [Read more...]