Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Name.com went to London earlier this month to attend a voting party for the Webby’s People’s Voice Awards. The event was sponsored by The Public Interest Registry, the registry behind the .ORG extension, to highlight several diverse organizations that are making the Internet a better place.
As suggested by the invitation, Name.com brought along one of […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
TechCrunch is reporting that Voice to Text messaging provider SimulScribe has acquired the domain name PhoneTag.com for $30k and is planning on rebranding under the new name starting April 25. It appears that Strong Inc. was the seller.
The name SimulScribe totally sucks for our business. People have a real challenge remembering the name and they […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
In addition to our own cross browser domain availability checking tools, RegZap and WhoZap, we’re pleased to announce that Name.com has been included in the latest version of QualityNonsense’s Domain Lookup FireFox Extension.
Domain Lookup is a Firefox extension that helps you discover valuable generic domain names while surfing the web. Just select the text you […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
The auction has been slow starting, but there are spurts of activity. So far the most action has been on lot #82 - Retire(d).net, which sold to the room for $23,500.
Through 90 lots there’s been 20 sales for $82,970 total. More to come.
Through 160 lots 38 names have sold for a total of $177, […]
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Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
I landed in San Francisco today in preparation for the Domain Roundtable. Name.com will have a booth this year so if you’re attending the show stop by and say hello.
Name.com’s CEO and Founder, Bill Mushkin will be participating in the CEO Roundtable to kick off the conference on Saturday at 9am:
Back by popular demand, the […]
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Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Do you worry about someone busting into your domain accounts? You should. As domain asset values continue to rise the threat to their security rises as well.
If you’re like most people you use the same password for lots of websites and services. Further, the password you use ise probably based on a special number or […]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
UDRP threats can wreak havoc on aftermarket buyers sleep patterns. When it comes to high priced generic auctions and sales it’s commonly thought that there’s no way anyong would drop a UDRP. But it happens. It happened to Xedoc Holdings after they layed out $166k for Shoppers.com in a Pool auction.
In what I hope becomes […]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Jay over at Name Intelligence/DomainTools.com just released a sneak peek at some of the low reserve domain names which will be on the auction block during the Domain Roundtable Auction on April 21, 2008. Jay has gotten a lot of flak recently about the quality of names in his online only auctions. Between these names […]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Name.com is taking the show on the road again and we’ll be landing in San Francisco next week for the Domain Roundtable. Even better, we’ve hooked up with the folks at Domain Roundtable to offer our customers and readers a $200 discount on registration. So there’s just no excuse not to come see us at […]
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Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Name.com continues to grow and we are in need of the following professionals:
Web Developer: Object Oriented / PHP etc.
We are currently seeking multiple developers to join our team. Our office is casual and the work environment is fairly relaxed and enjoyable. We have multiple positions to fill and welcome resumes from experience professionals as well […]
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