Domain Name News

Namemedia Promotes Bob Mountain to Senior Vice President

Bob Mountain promoted to Senior Vice President NameMedia. Bob’s Promotion recognizes his contributions to our company and the entire domain industry.

Verisign Reports 2011 Closed With 225 Million Domain Registrations: .com/Net ...

Verisign today announced its latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief report for the 4th Quarter of 2011.

The fourth quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 225 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which …

How Anonymous Plans to Use DNS As a Weapon

An Anonymous threat to take down the global Domain Name Service may have been a mere troll, but the group is looking to use the DNS itself as an offensive weapon.

Highly Coveted CO.com Domain Name for Sale via DomainAdvisors

DomainAdvisors, a leading broker of ultra premium domain names, announced today that, after 15 years off the market, the highly coveted CO.com domain name is now available for acquisition. DomainAdvisors will broker the sale of CO.com, in a joint effort with SellDomains.com, for Paul Goldstone. “We’re delighted to join forces with DomainAdvisors to maximize the outreach and awareness for the offering of CO.com. DomainAdvisors’ strong background and experience in premium [domain brokering makes them a great fit for this unique opportunity,” said Mr. Goldstone, owner of Co.com and founder of several successful domain related companies.

Winged Media Launches Game Changing Website Development Platform

Winged Media, a market leader in domain technology and internet platforms, today launched Devname.com, the next generation domain development platform for domain name investors. The Devname platform has also been integrated into Winged Media’s premier platform for domain trading platform, Protrada.com.

The Devname platform solves one of the biggest issues facing domainers; developing cost effective, dynamic, revenue generating websites at scale.

From a domainers point of view Devname does all the hard work behind the scenes to produce quality, socially activated, content rich and revenue generating websites.

Recent announcements by Google about underdeveloped domains no longer being indexed have delivered a timely warning to domain developers. Devname websites deliver increased traffic and are search engine friendly to ensure continual ranking and higher valuation when a domain name owner wants to sell the asset.

Developing on Devname also gives domain name owners 100% from their own revenue feeds and the opportunity to earn additional revenue from advertising, product and lead generation feeds.

Winged Media CEO and Founder, Troy Rushton, “When we were looking for a scalable development platform for our own portfolio we researched the industry and looked at every solution available. It soon became clear that we’d have to build our own. Devname is the result and it’s way ahead of anything else out there. These websites are built using amazing technology in the backend to get clients’ domains developed, ranking and producing revenue quickly.”

Using a revolutionary semantic engine, developed in-house at Winged Media, the Devname platform looks beyond the simple keyword of a domain to the intrinsic meaning of the domain name. This degree of analysis means domains are developed with more relevant content and revenue streams.

Rushton continued, “This technology is a game changer for the domaining industry. We’re very excited that Devname.com is now open for business both directly and via Protrada.com.”

Examples of the websites the Devname platform can produce are accessible at <a href="http://www.devname.com/company/preview">http://www.devname.com/company/preview</a>.

Porn Alarm for Internet Domains

Within three months of the launch of the internet “pornography” domain “.xxx,” 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies

A New Generic Top-level Domain Can Be Free

Most new gTLD applicant do not necessarily want to earn money from their domain name extension! .BRANDS, for example, will be using their domain names for themselves and they will not earn money from the sale of domain names. So, who are these new gTLD applicants who do not want to earn money from selling domain names and who do not want to spend money in an application?

UDRP Decision Could Mean Rush for Valuable Domains

Brand owners should try to acquire attractive domains as soon as possible through the UDRP system, given a recent controversial ruling.

.CO Goes Big at SXSW

.CO will be in your face at SXSW interactive. Say what you will about .co (and I know a lot of you will), but you have to give the TLD credit for doing more

US Gov't Claims Right to Seize Any .com Domain

This troubling declaration of power comes after US authorities shutdown the online sports gambling site Bodog.com last week — even though the website was owned by a Canadian company, which many assumed put it outside of US jurisdiction. Not so, apparently. That’s because the only company allowed to issue new .com domains is VeriSign, which is based — you guessed it — in the US.