Someone asked me recently what my favorite website was. It's an interesting question really because I rarely have time to use the web as entertainment. To me the question implies that industry related sites don't count. I'm also discounting the must visit sites like Google, Facebook and your favorite news site. So my question to [...]

The next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event takes place in Dublin August 24th - 26th. This will be our fourth event in 2010 and I must say, we are getting better at this. The best part of bringing the show to each corner of the world is meeting the local domainers. We had many domainers from British Colombia [...]

A few months ago we made a radical switch to move all finance, support and domain transfers to our team in Manila. To say that some of our customers have been frustrated would be an understatement. The time difference has been a major hassle. We'd send an email to them, only to get a question [...]

The extended T.R.A.F.F.I.C.  Vancouver domain auction is open for bidding. There are 379 total names on the list. The auction ends at June 22nd. Financing is available on most names. Please contact us if you have questions on how that works. A complete list of the names can be found below. Domain Name Cars.net Pizza.net [...]

*photo courtesy of dnjournal.com You have to admire Frank Schilling's business acumen. After entering the domain business in 2001 he quickly assembled one of the most lucrative portfolios of names in the industry. Frank parlayed that revenue into a diverse range of business opportunities which include everything from rum cakes to wristwatches. When my own [...]

Today at 4pm Pacific or 7 pm Eastern our Vancouver live main event T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction is taking place at proxibid.com/ricklatona. Please contact us if you need help bidding or if you have financing questions. We are standing by to help. The complete inventory is below: XXE.com WelcomeTo.ca Webcam.me VisitJerusalem.com HolidayGreeting.com Vancouver.com.mx UUY.com UsedCar.net & UsedCars.net [...]

This is a reminder to everyone that our .ca auction is today at 4 pm Pacific which is 7 pm EST and entirely too late in Europe. If you are in Europe and have an interest in one of the names, I strongly recommend you place a proxy so our system can bid for you [...]

Both Wednesday's .CA auction and Thursday's main event auction are open for pre-bidding now at Proxibid.com/ricklatona. Many premium names have been added to the lists since it first published. The .ca auction alone has added great names like diet.ca which is only in the $5001-$20,000 reserve range. Heck, we even have one lot of 500 [...]

Please find below the preliminary inventory for our Main Event at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver. We have other premium .com names that will be added but we can't publish them yet as we are waiting for the agreements to come back in. As always, there is room still for great names if you have something you want [...]

This is my third post in my Lessons Learned series and my first about sales and marketing. I may come back to management in the coming days or weeks as I continue to work through these in my own head. As previously stated, this exercise is for my benefit as much as yours. I'm putting them in [...]