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 values. It would crush domain [...]

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 off anything and everything that [...]

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 a two-page centerfold. Shortly after [...]

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 CEO of Telnic. He was [...]

*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 Targeted Traffic and the World [...]

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 cleaned up the code and [...]

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 could easilly learn about macros [...]

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 and the power behind CCBill, [...]

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 that has as much interest [...]