Cast your ballots now for TRAFFIC awards. Every year the organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference ask for nominations (and then a vote) to pick the best companies and people in the domain name industry. This year’s voting is due by Wednesday at 8 pm EDT. To participate, just make your selections from below [...]

Are you cool? Then plan to visit Austin this November. I’ve long talked about holding a domainer dinner in Austin. As I talked to others in the industry about it one common request kept coming up: hold it in conjunction with a University of Texas football game. So that’s what we’re doing November 12-13. Details [...]

Another domain name parking service added to stats sharing system. This past year has been a big one for domain name parking service SmartName. It has combined all of its parking brands into one as well as rolled out (or enhanced) both SmartName Shops and a content parking solution. Apparently a lot of people are [...]

Epik pushes the envelop at next week’s Domain Swap. Domain lifecycle platform Epik likes to try new and innovative things. Next week’s Domain Swap event at Epik DevCon in Seattle is another example. The Domain Swap brings in much needed liquidity and a common currency to domain trading, something that has been absent from similar [...]

Drug company loses dispute, but panelists disagree over key point. A recent UDRP brought by drug giant Sanofi-aventis is interesting on a couple counts. First, the company lost the case over the domain name ferrlecit.com. The respondent is a former licensee of Sanofi-aventis. It registered the domain name while it was a licensee. So it [...]

Foundation backed by George Soros loses arbitration for domain name. Open Society Institute, a think tank and foundation founded by billionaire George Soros, has lost a domain name dispute over the domain OpenSociety.org. The majority of the three person National Arbitration Forum found that the domain name wasn’t registered and used in bad faith. Two [...]

Let’s increase the security on webmail. Last week Google launched its new Gmail Priority Inbox feature to great fanfare. It’s a fantastic feature for people suffering from email overload. I have another suggestion for Gmail. Usage of web-based email services has exploded to the point that many people and companies keep critical information in their [...]