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Premium domain names continue to be an outstanding investment. This is nothing new to domain investors, and despite a recent slowdown in the reseller market, the actual numbers confirm that the end user market remains strong.
Looking at DNJournal's List of Top 100 Reported Sales of 2006, 2007 and 2008, the top 100 median sales […]

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Here I am once again back in the Qantas club in LAX after attending DomainFest. I find it disconcerting that I was greeted by name by the staff prior to showing them my boarding pass. It really causes you to think whether you’re travelling too much when this sort of…

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At 8.00 am on Tuesday 3 February 2009 we will have a system outage lasting about an hour and a half when we will be deploying software upgrades. During this time Online Services and EPP will be unavailable. The Automaton will not process email requests, but they will be received and queued for processing when it restarts. All other Nominet systems will continue to work normal during this period.

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• “Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running”
• “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore.”- Dale Carnegie

• “Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.”- Mark Twain
• “If and when the unavailable, extremely rare, powerful generic domain names become available and the unattainable domain assets become attainable, you must strike like an Eagle… rarity brings value.”- Inside Domaining

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InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Thursday, January 29, 2009
A high percentage (84%) of Super Bowl advertisers last year integrated domain names into ads, as 70% ran paid search advertising to coincide with their 30-second TV commercials, which ran in the area of $2.7 million. This year, the 2009 Super Bowl 30-second spots run up to a record breaking $3 million per TV ad!

Will Madison Avenue and their high roller, Super Bowl advertisers flash powerful, persuasive, descriptive, intuitive and memorable domain names on your big plasma TV screens for the entire duration of the 30-second spot or will they miss the boat and just show the URLs briefly as usual at the end of the ad for a mere few seconds?

• GoDaddy leverages their staggering Super Bowl ad spend with continued success through aggressive, controversial viral videos, mobile viral advertisng, and a social media campaign on YouTube. How ’bout microblogging your domain industry giant with viral video ads and mobile coupons on Twitter Mr. Parsons?

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