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Naming A Product, Buy Matching Domain Name Also— It happens A LOT! A company is getting ready to launch a new product and spends a good deal of time researching the "name" of the product to be clear of trademarks, something flashy so it is remembered and relevant but then fails to purchase ...
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Sedo's Benelux Auction is Underway— Sedo is hosting a Benelux auction for domain names with the  .nl and .be extensions....
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GoDrops.com ? Beta Testers Needed— My partner and I are looking for 10 experienced domainers to become GoDrops.com beta testers. Beta testing will go from March 15th to March 29th, during which you will gain access to our full drop lists with statistics to make your deleting domain pu...

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Poll: How Long Until New Top Level Domain Names?— When do you think new TLDs will be available for registration? Another ICANN meeting has wrapped up. Blows were dealt to many, but some progress was made. With EOI off the table, the focus is on settling the “overarching issues”. The ...

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Closed Captioning? YouTube wants you!— There are millions of hearing-impaired people around the world that cannot enjoy the goodies offered on YouTube and other web sites. Now, there is hope and it takes your participation to do it. ...

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Blocking Farmville on Facebook— I recently posted a comment on my Facebook wall about blocking those annoying Farmville posts that seem to frequently appear on my wall, and judging by the messages sent by friends on and off Facebook, I thought I would share how I did it in case you...

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Want To Learn More About ccTLDs? — I do! Honestly I don’t know enough about ccTLDs so I’m glad to see that my good friend Morgan Linton of MorganLinton.com has launched a new blog, ccTLDinvestors.com. The online magazine was created to specifically discuss ccTLDs. In addit...
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ICANN Board Drops Bomb on Registrars Hoping to Launch New TLDs — Board opts for separation of registrars and registries for new top level domain names. ICANN’s board resolved today that there will be “strict separation of entities offering registry services and those acting as registrars. No co-owner...
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ICANN nixes Expression of Interest for new gTLDs — The ICANN board has voted down the community proposal for Expressions of Interest for new gTLD applicants, requiring a $55,000 application fee. The proposal was mainly driven by proponents and applicants for new gTLDs with the hopes of speeding up th...
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55 Handpicked Expired Domains Available For Registration — As always, these are quality two-word .COM domains that have recently expired and are currently available for registration. The previous list published on DotSauce had a record breaking 95% registration rate. Each name on this list has been hand sel...
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire
ICANN Board Drops Bomb on Registrars Hoping to Launching New TLDs — Board opts for separation of registrars and registries for new top level domain names. ICANN’s board resolved today that there will be “strict separation of entities offering registry services and those acting as registrars. No co-owner...
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OzDomainer.com Podcast Featuring Yours Truley — Thank you to Ed Keay-Smith of OzDomainer.com for the invitation and having me on his podcast show. Ed has interviewed some very well known domain investors like Rick Schwartz, Rick Latona, Ron Jackson, Castello brothers and many more. If you have not...
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The Power Of Twitter — Last week I talked about the new book Twitter Power by Joel Comm and why I use Twitter. Today I am going to tell you how the power of Twitter has worked for me. Wednesday I posted an article about the top domain sales of 2008 not developed. Well, it ...
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Toys.com - bought by Toy R Us for $ 5,100,000 — Bidding has finished.toyrsrus bids $ 5,100,000National A-1 bids $ 5,000,000National a-1 asks for 10 minute breaktoyrsrus bids $ 4,915,000National A-1 bids $ 4820,000toyrsrus bids $ 4,815,000bidding is going quick so i?m going to skip a few aNational ...
Barry/ Predictive Domaining
Domaining for Generation G — I was reading an interesting article on Trendwatching.com about Generation G. That’s G for Generous. For those speculating on domains for new trends, this has some interesting predictions. They discuss the disgust at the excess in the corporate...
Conor/ Green Taxi
Disaster Derivatives For Dummies — The complex derivatives that are PART of the blame for the economic nightmare we are entering are often overlooked by the average reader.  No more. Until today, even I had not ventured into trying to understand the risk management for CDO’s.  ...