Looks like we are all going to have some new competition in the domain blog industry. And I may be losing a writer.  Adam Dicker announced tonight that he is paying writers up to $20 per story.  Here is his description of the project Next week we will be launching a domain industry blog. I am looking for writers to write about: Current events in our industry New companies in our industry New products in our industry New services in our Industry New / current tools people could use in our industry. reviews of companies, products or services. CCTLD and TLD related stuff. ICANN rel... Read More »

 The numbers are pretty impressive.  Ever since Digg dug their own grave, Reddit has taken over the Internet and has become THE source of unusual, informative, or just plain crazy links.  It's made Conde Nast look like geniuses when they bought the site. Look at these stats from the month of December 2,065,237,338 pageviews 34,879,881 unique visitors 12.97 pages / visit 16 minutes average time on site Over 100 million monthly pageviews per employee   The last stat is a business owners dream.  One hundred million page views PER employee.  And they did all of it after selling... Read More »

Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has a problem... a big "pain in the ass", if you will. After coming from nowhere to lose out by just a few votes in the recent Iowa caucus, you can imagine that searches for his name on the major search engines has spiked in the past few days. Santorum's problem, however, lies in what searchers are finding on Google, Bing, etc. You see, back in the day (2003), Santorum decided to make some anti-gay comments in an interview with the Associated Press. After that, a website popped up asking users to redefine the term 'Santorum', and the chosen definition is displa... Read More »

I'll be honest...I can't stand the week between Christmas and New Years. Just too many list's for me and it seems to get worse every year. You know the kind...The top 10 who really cares of 2011. With that said, a list was brought to my attention today, and it helped me write my post...so I love this list, but just this one. It was big news in the domaining world when Overstock.com decided to re-brand as O.CO in early 2011. It was also big news when they decided to abandon that ship in November. It was a marketing blunder and just so happens to top AdAge's 'Marketing Muck-Ups: The Biggest Follies of ... Read More »

If you're not familiar with 23andMe, it's a DNA testing/screening company that was founded by the wife of Google owner Sergey Brin.  Anne Wojcicki is more than just the wife of a billionaire, she is pioneering genetic screening and translating the results to give you a clearer picture of your health and future.  Evidently she is also a shrewd buyer.  She recently picked up GeneticScreening.com for a mere $2200 this month at Sedo. [caption id="attachment_13328" align="alignleft" width="248" caption="(source Getty Images)"][/caption] As I stated in my article yesterday, I thought geneticscree... Read More »

In an almost comical flip flop, Godaddy just released the following announcement: Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress. "Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."... Read More »

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And when Mark Zuckerberg sues you, you change your name to Mark Zuckerberg. At least that's what one Israeli business man did. Rotem Guez has changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook threatened to sue him for his business practices. Guez founded a company called 'Like Store' which sold traffic to businesses for their Facebook fan pages. The only problem with this is it violates Facebook's terms of service and when Facebook decided to take action against Guez and his company, Guez did the most logical thing he could think of, change his name to ... Read More »

News just came out that the partnership between Godaddy and KKR is a done deal with all the employees and people owning options getting their money today.  Bob Parsons had very kind words for those that stuck with the company.  He stated "Many of you have stood by me through some incredibly difficult times, during which many of your peers abandoned ship. Please know that I deeply appreciate your loyalty and will never forget that that loyalty more than anything is what made this day possible. Thank you so much for hanging in there with me. I am very proud of all we achieved that made this deal possib... Read More »

Louis C.K. is funny. Scratch that. Louis C.K. is f-ing hilarious. If you've never seen Louis C.K.'s stand-up comedy, I highly recommend it...and because of his new online experiment, he's making it easier than ever to see him, while laughing all the way to the bank. Louis C.K., real name Louis Szekely, has in less than a week innovated the way media is sold online. When releasing his new stand-up special "Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater", he decided to do it in a completely unconventional manner, selling a no-DRM video for $5 from his personal website. For Szekely, this was a big risk, leaving... Read More »