During the course of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C live auction and the DomainFest live and no/low reserve auctions that took place over the past two weeks there was no shortage of coverage from domain blogs including many who offered their top picks or best bar...

The official announcement, just days ago, of the brand name for Apple's new tablet computer dubbed the iPad was met like so many other buzzworthy tech, pop-culture, and political bombshells with a slew of related domain name registrations. Following ...

Back in November of last year, at the height of the Snapnames auction scandal, I wrote a personal assessment of the situation comparing it to the Absolute Poker scandal of 2007.  In comparison I recalled how quickly it was that Absolute Poker was ba...

Jamie Zoch has just written an interesting post on his blog with advice and some helpful pointers on submitting domain names to auctions. I wanted to expand on the section he wrote on auction promotion. I think Jamie is very on target with what he sa...

Its difficult to sell some domains no matter how hard you try. Here's the account of how I tried and failed to bring more buyers to a recent Sedo auction for a .us domain ... I received an offer via Sedo for the domain sledding.us. The initial offer ...

Here's yet another great example of why owning a category killer domain name is worth its weight. Free Backlinks Have you ever been writing something on a forum or in response to a blog post and to illustrate a point you needed to use an example doma...

Today I want to share with you three simple online tools I have found to be helpful for optimizing my developed websites. Google Webmaster Central Website Grader Majestic SEO Google Webmaster Central Webmaster Central is the first place you should go...

Opportunities to market your business are everywhere. It all depends how creative you can get or how many stones you're willing to turn over. How many of you still get paper bills in the mail the old-school way? If so you may take it for granted that...

As a domain investor like me you no doubt receive a lot of unsolicited junk email from people looking to pitch you their unwanted domains, often because you own the same domain in another extension, but sometimes for other reasons, some more or less ...

This may or may not turn into a semi-regular series in which I will profile cases of premium domain names where the owner is ruefully under-utilizing his/her web property. First, to be clear, no one has a prerogative to do anything with any domain na...