What is an Exact Match Domain Name? Exact Match Domain Names are just that–domain names that contain an exact match of a keyword or keyword phrase. So, an instance of an exact match domain name would be “books.com” or “travel.com” or perhaps Keyword1Keyword2.com exactly where “keyword1″ is 1 word and “keyword2″ is an additional keyword. [...]

Google has made the decision to retire the “hosted domains” item that they have via the Google AdSense program. According to an e-mail directly from the Google AdSense team, they’ve evaluated the advantages of their companion network and decided to retire the Hosted Domains system with Google AdSense. This system shutting down is various than [...]

How do you know whether or not you should renew your domain name? I personally tend to think that if you’re in doubt, you should renew it. But, there is a better way. Here are fourteen questions to ask yourself to help you decide on whether your should renew your domain name or not.

The Weather Channel does not have a history of purchasing a lot of domain names. So, when I saw that they recently purchased a bunch of social weather domain names, I was interested in predicting what their plans are. I suspect that in the future that how we get our weather is going to become [...]

It is not very often that you come across a situation like this. The domain name JeffBezos.com has been sold at a domain name auction and then promptly returned to its rightful owner: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. I recently interviewed Bob Olea, the guy who bought the JeffBezos.com domain name and returned it to Mr. [...]

When large groups of domain names are purchased such as the one I came across today, most of the time it indicates that the company purchasing them has major plans in the works. That happened today, when I was alerted to the fact that Conde Nast Digital, the folks behind the popular Reddit website, purchased [...]

In April 2011 I first reported that Microsoft had acquired 47 domain names related to something (a brand or a company) named Synsup Labs. Those domain names had previously been pointed to the Bing.com search results. Now, the total number of domain names related to Synsup Labs that Microsoft owns is an even 50 domain [...]

In an interesting acquisition today by Microsoft, the company acquired 47 domain names and has pointed them to the Bing.com search engine. I usually watch the list of Microsoft domain names and have not seen such a large acquisition of new domain names in a long time. Perhaps this is the indication of a new [...]

Three high profile Poker domain names were seized today. The FBI has charged the founders of the three largest Internet poker companies doing business in the United States with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses. Others were charged, as well. The PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker domain names were seized as [...]

Overall, today Google registered 40 domain names. There are a few domain names that have piqued my interest today, including several domain names that are related to a possible Google deal advisor service, where Google may advise you on the best deals. Of course, this is only speculation on my part.

I just posted on my main blog about Namecheck, a new search engine for online names. You can actually search at one place and discover if a name has been registered as a domain name, on a social media site, or if it has a trademark. Namecheck is a pretty useful tool if you are [...]

Let me ask you: when was the last time that you sent a fax? When was the last time you sent a fax in order to register a domain name? Never? If you don’t know, before you could register a domain name online, you had to register a domain name via fax, which was back [...]

I just posted a blog post about invalid whois and the problem with people putting false information on their domain name record of ownership. If you are not aware of this, you might be interested in knowing that there is a rule by ICANN that says that you have to have accurate data in your [...]