Posts Tagged ‘Domain Owners’

Advice From the Most Successful Domain Owners of All Time – Part 2

Friday, October 9th, 2009
This is part two of a series of five with one piece of advice from some of the most successful domain investors, domain developers, domain monetizers, and others involved in the domain industry. I asked them for one piece of advice they would give to a part-time domain investor looking to build his business . I believe there are quite a few people who are part time domain investors, and I also believe just about anyone involved in the industry can apply some of this advice to their own business

ICANN’s Missing Picture: The Domain Registrant

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
The main source of funding for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doesn’t get the attention it deserves. In my open letter to new ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, I made made a key point with regards to domain registrants: “Remember that domain owners ultimately fund your organization. Registries and registrars merely funnel domain owners’ money to ICANN.” It’s a fairly simple idea, but here’s a flow chart. The orange line are registration fees. Registrants pay

.tel Landrush to Start Soon (ITNews)

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
LONDON, January 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - Two-Week Countdown Begins With two weeks to go before Landrush for the innovative new top level domain .tel, trademark owners have a limited time to apply for their domains before applications for any domain open to all.

.tel Landrush to Start Soon (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
With two weeks to go before Landrush for the innovative new top level domain .tel, trademark owners have a limited time to apply for their domains before applications for any domain open to all.

Domainers Don’t Care if VeriSign Increases Prices

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Do domain name owners care if VeriSign can drastically increase .com prices? Apparently not. ICANN has released new details about its proposed registry agreement and added a line-by-line comparison to previous registry agreements. These agreements dictate the terms that registries such as VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) must follow as they run top level domains. You can see details of the new information on ICANN’s web site. As written before on Domain Name Wire along with several other domain news s