Domain Investing

Since the .CO Registry opened up its gates ten days ago, more than 370,000 .CO domains have been registered. Initial concern over the long-term visibility of .co domains was calmed down by Google’s reassuring statement that .co domains will be given equal treatment among .com, .net, .org and the various other TLDs and ccTLDs. A [...]

I always like to dig into things a little deeper than most because it often brings to light some things we may not notice just by looking at something. So, today I wanted to do a little bit of digging and get some stats on domain names that are currently in the Pre-Release section on [...]

After a post like last weeks’, where I spoke on .ie and their restrictions, you may be thinking that it is too hard to get involved in ccTLD investing. Trust me, I know it’s easier to just stick with .com but I have seen huge rewards from going global. It’s a little harder to get [...]

Finally last night I got an e-mail from the .CO registry concerning the land rush applications I placed. This is the first notice or any information regarding the land rush applications I have received since placing the orders. The first notice tells you to set up your account: “”As a result of your recent application(s) [...]

Have you ever wanted to estimate the traffic of a domain before buying it? I bet so, and I know that checking traffic indicators, like Alexa Rank, number of Yahoo Backlinks and Google Pagerank all by hand takes a lot of time. And if you have a list of dozens or even hundreds of domains to check, [...]

I had always still used Whois.sc to get to whois.domaintools.com. The domain name simply did a forward in the past but that is no longer the case! Pretty wise by DomainTools.com to do this, because Whois.sc will start ranking better in search engines IMO. So what does the New Whois.sc look like and what is new? Doing [...]

To continue the series on driver’s watches like the Rolex Daytona and Breitling Windrider Chronomat which have been blogged about this week, today we’ll look at the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch. The “Moonwatch or Moon Watch” is technically called the Omega Speedmaster Professional. What’s interesting about this watch line’s story is that Omega didn’t make the [...]

We just updated our Domain Parking StockIndex tracking the prices of public companies. We dropped Dark Blue Sea which was bought out, and went private earlier this year, and added Sedo.com (Sedo Holdings) which is traded on the Xetra, part of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Shares of Sedo.com have a 52 week high of $4.33 [...]

A while back, I wrote about Intercontinental Hotel Group’s massive UDRP filing for 1,529 domain names that they believe infringed on some of their hotel brands. They ended up winning a large majority of the domain names in this filing, and the few domain names that I checked smartly forward to the proper IHG website [...] Related posts:Branding vs. Generic Domain Names With few exceptions, company brands and generic domain names are... Vail Resorts Gets Domain Names Vail Ski Resorts seems to be way ahead of the... How to Potentially Lose $11,000+ in Less than a Year According to the World Intellectual Property Organization website’s list of... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

A few months ago I implored Rick Schwartz to consider making TRAFFIC an invitation-only event, once again. That conversation generated quite a bit of feedback and obviously invited opinions for and against the argument. In today’s blog post, Rick stated that his intention of getting domainers together at a TRAFFIC conference without sponsors and “outsiders” [...]