The New York Times has an interesting article on “Domain Flipping” - describing the practice of domainers who find underdeveloped web sites, purchase them, fix them up and boost traffic and them sell them at a large profit.


The article suggests that while the media may report on the million dollar buyouts of websites such as Wired News and Celebrity Baby Blog most domain flippers aim lower — perhaps making only hundreds or thousands of dollars on a flip.


To read the full article click here.

Dotster has a $3.99 sale on .info domains. .info domains are the fastest growing domain on the internet, but there are still millions of great .info domains available, so get them while you still can! To get the deal, make sure you go to Dotster and use the coupon code 399DOTINFO in the coupon field at checkout.

Something I should have caught last month:
Starting July 1st, Yahoo is increasing their domain renewal fee from $9.95 to $34.95 - OUCH!

New Domain registration prices will remain at $9.95 in order to entice new users to sign up. I think that if enough people complain about this 3.5X price increase, Yahoo will have to reconsider this decision.


Meanwhile, I am changing Yahoo’s $9.95 first year only price to be indicated as a ’sale’ price with a regular price of $34.95. Perhaps at some point when I have more time I will rewrite the code so that a first year only price can be better indicated.

Now that .ME open registration has been in full gear for a few days we can take a quick look at who has the best deal. Keep in mind that a .ME domain requires a two-year registration period.


From our .ME page we can see that GoDaddy and Moniker have the best prices at around $40 for 2 years followed closely by namecheap.com at about $44 for two years. Keep in mind that GoDaddy charges 8.99/yr for private registration while Namecheap has a promotion for a free year of private registration (regularly $2.88 yr). So it looks like Namecheap is the way to go for now.


We will be updating our .ME page regularily so take a look whenever you want to find out about the best .ME deal


Drop us an email to let us know about some of the .ME domains your getting.

The first-come first-served registration for the Web’s newest Top-Level Domain Name Extension (TLD) starts tommorow (July 17th).

The “land-rush” period, a 20-day period that was the first opportunity for the public to apply for .ME domains, concluded June 26th. The period between the 26th of June and July 17th was being used to award domains where multiple applications for the same domain were received. The Land-rush period and Sunrise period have seen over 30,000 .ME applications.

A two year minimum is required for .ME domains during the initial open registration period.

For more information click here

Are you looking to strengthen your brand or exposure with your American audience? Then chances are you should be buying up some .us domains — and right now 1 and 1 has a great deal on them — Only $2.99 for the first year. Grab a few before the price goes up and while some great names are still available.

Click here to find out more about the deal.

Verisign, the global registry operator for .com and .net issues a quarterly report on the current state of the domain name industry. Here is some interesting info from the latest report.

• There are over 162 million domain name registrations accross all Top Level Domains (TLDs) - a 26% year-over-year increase
• 62 million domains are of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) variety - a 33% year-over-year increase
• The largest TLDs in terms of base size are .com, .de, .cn, .net, .uk, .org, .info, .nl, .eu and .biz
• The ccTLD growth was fueled in particular by .pl (Poland), .cn (China), .es (Spain), .ru (Russian Federation) and .fr (France) - each of which experienced double digit growth quarter over quarter.
• Year-over-year .cn’s growth was a whopping 199%
• New .com and .net registrations were added at an average of 2.6 million per month in Q1 2008
• India’s internet user population, at more than 41 million, grew by 25% last year.
• At the end of Q1 2008 there were about 410,000 .in domain name registrations