2008 is almost gone and the industry has brought another year of challenges. It’s officially time to pat ourselves on the back for simply surviving while global economies are in disarray. Before the holidays come and people disappear to spend unthinkable time away from the computer (without incurring too much withdrawal I hope) we at [...]

First and foremost (for the 4 letter freaks out there) the value of this site has nothing to do with the domain. Nothing, nada, zilch. The value of the website and the traffic attached to the domain is a direct result of the owners work developing the content. In simple words the domain xkcd.com was [...]

This post is not about domain names per say but it will shed some light on the minds of people who spend $70,000 on (trademark).me domains or hope to sell hamburgerwithnochesse-please.info for $100,000. As far as the domain community goes I think we are a pretty smart bunch of people. The simple fact that we [...]

This article is going back to one of the reasons we started this blog. Newfound Names was chosen as a company name for two reasons. A love for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and a play on words for what every new acquisition means to us – a new found name. It has [...]

Google. The six letters which continually shape the internet as we know it. Whether its reshuffling of organic search placements, random and unpredictable quality scores for Adwords advertisers, searchable email, billion dollar buyouts of companies that seem to vanish or an office complex we all envy (seriously, who would not want their company to have [...]

SnapNames has officially rolled out the “buy it now” feature in addition to thier regular auctions. To view all the buy it now names currently for sale simply use the advanced search and 1) Leave the search term box empty 2) Choose “Buy It Now” from the drop down menu. 3) Press the Search Button [...]

What I love about the crew at Moniker is they keep developing services domainers want and doing so without greed. Register.com will charge you $49.95 to forward a name, GoDaddy has about a zillion options when checking out and Network Solutions .. well, I think we all have the same feeling there. A couple months [...]

DomainJunkies.com just posted about Google adding an “Adsense for Domains” feature to Adsense publishers. This domain parking program was previously only available to large (very large) portfolio owners and has been basically closed for the last couple years however it seems a roll out to most North America publishers is now in the works. You [...]

For the owners of a good holiday domain and those doubters who do not see value in owning a domain that performs only once a year then view the chart below. A little bit of development can go a long away…. Congrats to Kevin and the .info owner – Yes, I said .info ————————————————————- Enjoy [...]

Sahar posted a recent article on why domaining sucks. I will be the first to say domaining does not suck although we are going through a slow period (like every other industry at the moment). His article was certainly only a highlight of some points that do suck in this industry and not a gloom [...]