DOMAIN NAME MERCHANTS
SITES
Afternic.com - Domain Name Auctions, Research, and Management
A place for people to buy and sell domain names through auctions. Includes over 10,000 domain names, and valuations of domain names based on community members' opinions.
BuyDomains.com
"A seller of top quality business domain names." BuyDomains.com has bought a number of domains that they think would work well for businesses, and put them all up for sale.
DomainNameBuyersGuide
Rankings of domain name registrars, based on price and on legalese.
DomainRepo.com: Expired, Repossessed, Unused and Free Domain Names
Subscription information for the DomainRepo Newsletter, a weekly newsletter providing information on newly-available "good" domain names.
GreatDomains.com - Buy and Sell Domain Names and Web sites
Self-described as "the Internet's #1 Domain Name Broker," it claims to list over 150,000 names and sites for sale.
OpenSRS
Information on the Open Shared Registration System, an open-source system which allows any qualifying partner to register domains at "wholesale" costs.
RegSelect
Information on registering, parking, and protecting a domain name.
ARTICLES
Branded Web Domain Can Help Your Firm's Name Register With Clients
Advice on setting up a small business with its own domain name, an email address at that domain name, and possibly a simple website. (3/7/2001 at Los Angeles Times)
Discount Domains
A review of 4 domain name registrars that offer domain names, email, and web-hosting for under $40/year. (1/9/2001 at CNET.com)
Domain Appraising - The Domain Name Fair Value Game
The author asked the domain name appraisal firms to appraise a single domain name (liquidtrading.com), and got prices ranging from $200 to $160,000. (9/30/2000 at eCommerceBase)
DomainTheNet and i-DNS.net Launch Domain Names in Hebrew
DomainTheNet and i-DNS.net International will work together to sell Hebrew domain names to Israel-based customers. (12/27/2000 at InternetNews.com)
Dot TV
Thanks to exploitation of the .tv top-level domain name, the sovereign nation of Tuvalu can finally afford to join the United Nations. (9/5/2000 at MSNBC)
DotTV Auctions 'Triple' Expectations
DotTV, an Idealab subsidiary that has purchased the rights to the .tv top-level domain name from Tuvalu, says it has already tripled the sales of .tv domains it initially expected. (5/15/2000 at ZDNet)
Firm to Offer Asian Domain Names
Network Solutions, Inc. announces the availability of domain names utilizing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. (10/3/2000 at The Washington Post)
How Much for .brooklynbridge?
For years, companies have been accepting customers' money to reserve domain names in TLDs that don't yet exist; legal experts say, "Buyer beware." (9/11/2000 at Wired News)
The Internet's .1 and Only?
Group One Registry (London) wants to control a ".1" TLD, which will only allow domain names with numerals, which will be associated with cell phones, PDAs, and other "smart" devices; .Kids Domains Inc. wants to be the registrar for ".kids". (10/3/2000 at ZDNet)
ISI Gives Up Administration of .us
USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has stopped administering the .us country code top-level domain name; Verisign will temporarily administer it. (11/29/2000 at InternetNews.com)
.Kids Domains Inc. Proposes Safe Harbor for Children on the Internet
One of the proposals for a new top-level domain (TLD) is for .kids, a child-safe section of the Internet; the applicant has picked Tucows as its technology partner. (10/2/2000 at internet.com)
Land Rush Is Near for .INFO and .BIZ
Afilias LLC and NeuLevel LLC are expected to start fairly complicated processes for registering .info and .biz domain names, respectively. (4/27/2001 at InternetNews.com)
Multilingual Domain-Name Registrations Reach 700,000 mark in Test Program
Even though no standard has been set for dealing with "internationalized" domain names and they can't be mapped to IP addresses yet, 700,000 names using Chinese, Korean, and Japanese characters have been registered. (12/20/2000 at Computer World)
Netcraft: Domain Name Registration Slumps
According to Netcraft, there were only 1 million new domains registered in Q12001, compared with 4 million in Q12000. (4/19/2001 at NUA Internet Surveys)
New.net Defies Domain System
Bill Gross' Idealab has launched a new spinoff: New.net, which plans to allow registration in 20 unsanctioned top-level domains: .shop, .kids, and more; they hope to partner with ISPs and provide a web browser plug-in to encourage use. (3/5/2001 at Wired News)
The Other Dots Are Still Prized
Domain name registrars are already getting plenty of interest from those who want to buy domains using the new ICANN-approved suffixes; but they'll have to wait for Department of Commerce approval. (12/20/2000 at Wired News)
P&G Is Selling Internet Names at Hefty Prices
Procter & Gamble Co., which registered almost 100 generic/dictionary words as domain names in 1995 (before they were in short supply), is selling them (flu.com, beautiful.com, etc.) through GreatDomains. (9/5/2000 at St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Registrars Invited To Fight Against NSI
The president of BuyDomains.com has invited more than 100 other domain name registrars to form a trade organization to fight Network Solutions Inc. (9/18/2000 at ZDNet)
VeriSign Opens Web Database to 70 New Languages
On February 26, 2001, Verisign Inc. (through subsidiary Network Solutions) began offering domain name registration in 70 addition languages; domain names must still end in one of the traditional English-style suffixes (.com, etc.) though. (2/26/2001 at Excite News)
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