February, 2009

Could ICANNs vanity extensions one day be as easy to get as registering a domain?

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Damn you Rick Dees! Having lunch with Jay Westerdal in New Orleans he posed an interesting theory. What if, years from now, you could go to GoDaddy.com and register .rick with your credit card? While that scenario is incredibly unlikely it’s interesting to contemplate what it would do to domain...

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Not everything is about domains. Rick Latona Auctions is now accepting any and all submissions to our auctions. Allow me to explain.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I think that’s a Jonas Brother’s signature. LOL A month or so ago I was thinking about our auction business. It occured to me that I have an auctioneer, an auction staff and a willing audience. It was one of those “whoa” moments where I realized I should be auctioning...

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Economy be damned. We’ve extended our marketing reach yet again with Search Marketing Standard Magazine

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Search Marketing Standard Magazine – You can subscribe by following this link. In April of 2008 I took a very risky move and started to advertise in Website Magazine. We took out a 2-page spread to make sure that everyone noticed us. In August we added Internet Retailer. Again, with...

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Interview with Kashayar Mahdavi – CEO of Telnic Limited, the people behind .TEL

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

I’ve never actually done an interview on this site but in this case I felt it was important. I myself, am not entirely sure what to think about .tel names, especially when it concerns the reseller market. So, I’ve decided to ask a few pointed questions to Khashayar Mahdavi, the...

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Welcome Ray Neu – The newest member of our family. He’s now our Director of Marketing

Friday, February 20th, 2009

*Above – Howard Neu, Jim McCann (800-Flowers) and Ray Neu at a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. convention Ray Neu is a young man but don’t let that fool you. He’s gown up surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the domain industry. His father Howard Neu is Rick Shwartz’s business partner at...

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Technology Sucks. If you tried to signup for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs over the last few days you might have received an error. It’s been fixed now.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Several of you have received security warnings when you have been going to the TargetedTraffic.com/cctlds webpage to register for the conference. What caused the problem was that there were elements in the site that were similar to elements found in triblabla.awasr.cn, a known website which hosts malware software.  We have...

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Is a crappy .com or a great ccTLD better? Could a ccTLD be better than an equivelent .com? These are the questions you need to be able to answer before investing in ccTLDs.

Monday, February 16th, 2009

The first thing I look for is relevancy towards the market. As discussed before, UsedBoats.co.uk is relevent to the UK market because British people are very unlikely to buy a boat from someone in Los Angeles. However, I wouldn’t put much value on a name like Macros.co.uk because British people...

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The Phoenix Forum – Rick Latona Auctions Will Be There

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

While this blog isn’t about the adult internet business, as an auction company, we can’t ignore the opportunity. For years, Internext was the game in town for adult Internet companies. Around four or so years ago the Phoenix Forum took its place on the leader board. Run by Ron Cadwell...

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$3000 a Day Domainer

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

First, I’d like to say that I did not make this video. I was in no way involved in the production of the video. To add to the mystery, I can’t tell you who did make the video. What I can tell you is that it’s a friend of mine...

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