We are pleased to announce the launch of the first phase of Aftermarket.com. This first phase is a dual online & offline auction system using the new platform of DomainTools created specifically for the Aftermarket.com. Many people may be familiar with DomainTools auction platform rolled out last year - we have redesigned most of […]
I have been playing with Google Ad Planner for about a week now and it is by far the best third party metrics tool out there. I can now directly query Google for how popular a website is and how many users they have. I have found that if a website doesn’t have more then […]
I am pleased to welcome Tim Chen to our company. Tim is our VP of Corporate Development at Thought Convergence. As many of you may know Tim has worked in online media and advertising for ten years, including the last 2 1/2 years as the VP of business development and domain acquisitions at Internet […]
We just released a new RSS Feed Management system to DomainTools that allows subscribers to monitor alerts and other paid services using RSS feeds instead of email updates. Email alerts have bugged me for a while because they clog my inbox, RSS gets announcements out of the inbox and in a more usable area. We […]
We just got an outdoor sign on our building in Los Angeles. For those of you that missed the announcement Thought Convergence is the new parent company of Name Intelligence/DomainTools.com.
If you want to drive by and check it out the address of the building is 11355 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064.
A great new book just hit the stands, “The Domain Game” by David Kesmodel is an intriguing book about our industry. The book is filled with people that I am intimately familiar so it is personally fascinating to read the book. There are a lot of back stories that have been told in the book […]
I almost lost my domain permanently because I was unaware it was expiring. I got an alert from our new Registrant Alert system on DomainTools and it saved my ass. I am extremely thankful we invented this system. It is nice to have an example I can point to so soon after launching the service. […]
Acquisition is a major milestone in Thought Convergence’s strategy of developing a self-sustaining, symbiotic Domain Ecosystem that services the global domain community.
Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA, May 6, 2008 — Thought Convergence, the industry-leading provider of domain management, monetization and development tools and technologies for premium domain owners and aggregators of high-quality domain portfolios, […]
We are exclusively listing Harmony.com for sale. It is being offered at a $5 Million dollar reserve price. We will consider all creditable offers for the next two weeks. If you would like to place a bid, please contact me at “harmony [at] domaintools.com”. This is a fantastic generic domain with a lot of uses. […]
Melbrourne IT just announced to me they purchased the Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) division from Verisign. This makes it clear that VeriSign is going back to focusing on the more profitable registry business. I talked with William Roper (CEO of Verisign) less then a year ago and he indicated that a leaner more […]