Greetings from Sydney Australia. What's amazed me about this current ICANN meeting is the sheer number of companies and individuals lobbying for their own extensions with ICANN. Last night we went to a party, hosted by Wolfgang Puck and the good people over at Mind and Machines. Chef Puck is going after .food. Are the [...]

Rick, Howard and I want to grow TRAFFIC into something very special for the industry. Just today we've cut a deal for a major CPA companyto give a really educational lecture/lesson in New York on buying traffic and monitizing outside the PPC industry. More on that later... The reason I am bringing it up now [...]

Rick Latona Auctions has cut a deal with the registrant of aged .cm names to auction. These are not being auctioned off the registry but the registry is aware. More details will be published soon but I wanted to give you guys a teaser on some of the names: casino.cm poker.cm loan.cm billboard.cm cars.cm 401k.cm [...]

You've asked for more ways to make money with your domains. Well, now you have it. Please take a moment to read the complete press release below. We've put a tremendous amount of work over the past months into this new service. In addition to the products that we now offer on aeiou.com, you will [...]

I've decided to take on an ambituous goal to interview all of the world's ccTLD registries. Some of them will take years before I can get them to agree and others will take years before they are even operational like some African nations. A man has to have a mission though and the project intrigues [...]

I have a pretty big announcement today. Actually, this is the biggest announcement I have ever made in my years in the domain industry. Yesterday I visited Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu in Boca Raton and agreed in principal to partner with them in the TRAFFIC shows for 2010 and beyond. Together, as a team, [...]

Our ccTLDs Extended Auction is ending TODAY at 5:00 PM ET.  We have over 1000 high quality names and ccTLDs on the list. Please take the time to review it carefully. You can go to www.proxibid.com/ricklatona and search for the name you want to bid on or the lot number for the name. The complete [...]

At long last, the nation of Colombia is going to turn their coveted ccTLD extension ".co" into a business. I've received word that on the 23rd of June the country will be accepting a bid. My source tells me that Verisign, Straat Investments, Affilias, Argus, and Technology Services (GTS), among others, have all expressed interest [...]

This week I'll be doing a series of profiles of my staff and partners. I thought it would be appropriate to start with the team that does the bulk of the work for our web design projects. They are the unsung heroes and without them nothing would get done. The design and development of the [...]

Sometimes you don't really get to know someone until you've done battle with them. In the case of Rick and Howard, my perception of them has changed forever. For instance, Rick Schwartz talks often on his blog and on message boards about how he doesn't want to work. He goes on and on about it [...]