Wired is reporting that Feds have seized 307 sports related domain names just days before the Super Bowl. Of these, 291 domains were used to sell fake or non-licensed apparel and the remaining domains were being used to stream unauthorized live sporting events. The seizures came from the Homeland Security's ICE unit. When I first heard the news I immediately visited FirstRowSports.com. First Row Sports is a site that I may or may not have used to watch football and hockey games in the past. (I do have 3 TV's in my living room for football but what can I say sometimes there's 4 games I want to watc... Read More »

You may have noticed that I've been slackin' on the writing lately. Sometimes I feel like I'm busier without a job than with one. I had a job interview yesterday for a really great company. I'm not going to lie, I do want this job, and I feel like I'd be a good fit. It seems like a real challenge and that's what I'm looking for. I'll spare the details for now as I don't want to jinx it, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I figured I'd take a little time and share some of the sites I visit regularly on the web. I enjoy having a wide range of interests and I think that's reflected in what I visit onli... Read More »

It's simple.  Click yes or no........and one personal question at the bottom .. . And the bonus   Quipol... Read More »

Goldchains.com hit a pretty good number today at $32,000.  I would imagine that will be one of the higher sales in next weeks top sales.  I'll try to gather the final prices of this sale later today.  I'd also like to toot my own horn again as Gentler.com is almost done and sits at $2300.  It was a featured name on our list and it sat at $350, adding $2K.  Would it have gotten there on its own?  Maybe but being the arrogant fool I am, I'll call it the DomainShane effect in action yet again.   Update:  Gentler.com finished at an amazing $5100. There were only 3 bidders but 2 of them did... Read More »

If any of you have an extra $13, a guy over at Reddit needs a few extra dollars to renew a domain name. He's a little short and could pay you back next month or so. He'd really appreciate it. The details are below. On a side note, I was wondering if I could borrow $23.50 from someone. I forgot to pickup my dry cleaning for DomainFest and I'm a little short. I could pay you back in 5 or 6 months after Godaddy pays me for one of my premium sales. ... Read More »

Wrecked. It was a bar I visited twice on my recent disappearance to Mexico. It's right on the ocean and a great place to drink and get, well, wrecked. They don't serve food, just $2 beers and shots, or a bit more for my Don Julio's. After several of each there's  a great place 200 feet down the street where my waiter fed me fish tacos and acted as pimp, offering to hook me up with a "really good looking" girl in town. Granted, I had just broken up with my girlfriend, but the idea of bringing something undetectable through customs really didn't seem like a great idea, so I passed. While I sat in Wrec... Read More »

Last week I had quite a few changes take place in my life in a very short period of time. I quit my job and my girlfriend and I broke up all within a matter of hours. Pretty much any routine I had went out the window in one day. I decided to take the rest of the week and get out of town. I called Shane and he was nice enough to say don't worry about the blog, take off. The picture to the left was my location. I sat there quite a bit just unwinding and clearing my head. As you can see it was really shitty weather. I ate a lot of fresh shrimp cocktail, fish tacos, and drank quite a few cervezas. T... Read More »

As I noted I had a heck of day yesterday. One thing after another. Here is part two of the bad day. I sold a name this week.  Happy with the price, excited about the sale.  Then, I get an email asking if I really am the owner.  I'm not one to use privacy so just the heading alone got me worried.  Sure enough I'm not on the whois. I asked the old question.  "Did I buy it with little time until expiration and forgot to renew?".  "Did I forget to hit accept?".  It was much simpler than that.   I had purchased the name through Godaddy Buy it Now Premium auction and they took my money.  I got an em... Read More »

If you like it dirty, dirty.com to be exact,  then you're going to love the pre-bid list of names up for auction at the AVN Internex Auction. If you love to raise chickens and are looking for a male chicken then this may be the auction for you.  For a mere $300K you can have penis.com.  That's assuming the name doesn't go higher at the auction. Normally I like to list out all the names but in this case I think you are better off looking for yourself.   Many of them aren't family names.  Cavitysearch.com is probably not your dentist looking for tooth decay.  I'm not exactly sure when the auction s... Read More »