Perhaps letting domain registrars do as they please is OK. For the 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey I added a new option for the most important factors when selecting a domain registrar: what they do with expired domains. With all the commotion over ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Tucows Signs Up To $1.8M Expired Domain Name Deal
· Expired DomainsDomain name registrar signs deal to sell expired domain names to third party. This is a follow-up to Domain Name Wire's report this morning about Tucows (AMEX: TCX) selling a $1 million portfolio of domain names and entering into an agreement to sell ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Tucows Inks Expired Domains Deal with NameJet
· Expired DomainsNameJet now has three of top four domain registrars on its platform. Starting today, NameJet is the exclusive sales channel for domain names expiring from domain name registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX). NameJet is now the exclusive provider of inventory ... Continue Reading10 Comments
SnapNames Awarded Domain Backordering Patent
· Expired DomainsCompany awarded divisional patent covering business of expired domains and domain monitoring. Expired domain name service SnapNames, a subsidiary of Oversee.net, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,472,160, covering a broad array of expired domain ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Deadbeat Bidder at NameJet? Just Pay Ten Bucks.
· Expired DomainsAre expired domain auction services doing enough to deal with deadbeat bidders? Expired domain auctions can get very competitive. But often times the winning bidder never makes the payment, sending the domain back to auction and wasting everyone's ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Domain Name Conspiracy Theories
· UncategorizedEveryone's got them. But not all of them are true. Spend much time on domain name forums or at trade shows and you'll hear a lot of conspiracy theories: auction tampering, domain renewal notices "lost" on purpose, etc. I hear more than my fair ... Continue Reading16 Comments
Sedo and Pool Explain Employee Policies for Bidding
· Expired DomainsSedo has strict policy on domain speculation, Pool outlines rules. [If you have arrived on this article from Slashdot, NoDaddy, etc., you may wish to see how this all started with GoDaddy.] Many people (63 comments and counting) have commented on ... Continue Reading12 Comments
OVT Matcher Software Releases Upgraded Version
· Expired DomainsTool for finding domain names with traffic releases improvements. OVT Matcher, a tool that automatically checks lists of domain names for "Overture Scores" from January, February, and March 2007 has released an upgrade. (See OVT Matcher Makes Finding ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Expired Domain Services Let Employees Bid Against Customers
· Expired DomainsTwo of the major services let employees compete with domainers. [Note: See update at bottom of article.] Earlier today a reader tipped me off to a discussion at NamePros about GoDaddy's TDNAM service. Apparently GoDaddy VP (and owner of DNForum) ... Continue Reading85 Comments
Tucows and Afternic Deal Q&A
· Expired DomainsBill Sweetman of Tucows answers questions about its deal with Name Media's Afternic. After today's announcement that Tucows (AMEX: TCX) is sending expired domain names to Afternic, there were a couple lingering questions. I asked Bill Sweetman, ... Continue Reading17 Comments