CurrentAffairs.us, DomainValuation.us for sale on Bido
The two domain names DomainValuation.us and CurrentAffairs.us will be auctioned off on Bido this week. First to hit the auction block is DomainValuation.us. The auction will go live on Monday, November 02, 2009 around 12:30 pm EST. Link to the auction: http://www.bido.com/Auction?name=domainvaluation.us CurrentAffairs.us, a great keyword domain for a news website or forum, will be on auction on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 around 12:30 pm EST. Link to the auction: http://www.bido.com/Auction?name=curre

28% of one- & two-letter .DE domains grabbed by one company
Last Sunday I commented on DENIC releasing one- and two-letter domains as well as pure number domains, which were previously impossible to register. This Sunday I will have to comment on the actual results of the allocation process. As it stands now, 28% of all one- or two-letter domains that were claimed and registered during the initial registration phase were acquired by one

Denic to make million-dollar domains available for the first time
Denic, the registry of Germany’s .DE top-level domain, has announced that it is going to make one- and two-letter .DE domains available for registration in a few days for the first time. In addition to these, it will then also be possible to register pure number domains such as 123.de, which, unlike under .com, could not have been registered so far. As per Denic’s rules, it was not allowed to register domains without any letters or domains shorter than three letters under the .DE TLD. Those rules are now about to be changed after a 2008 Frankfurt court ruling involving Volks

Stay on topic on your blog!
I am a person who is interested in many things. Although this blog is clearly about domain names, I actually enjoy studying other subjects too, such as finance and economics, but do I write about them? Rarely. That is so because whenever I have written a post on something other than domain names, interest in that blog post was low. Too low, I should say. My stats also indicate that the number of readers who unsubscribed was significantly higher on days when I published a finance-related article, for example. I have only written a handful of those so far, but I’m afraid I won’t be doing it again in the future. Blog readers seem to be looking for one specific topi

Economy may be recovering, says Google
Search engines have access to tons of valuable information, treasure troves full of clues to human behavior and what their millions of search engine users are up to. That is why the big search engines have great power even beyond their new role as brokers of advertising spaces on the Internet. Every day search engines analyze our behavior and collect data we generate, and which they then store in databases. I have often wondered what data they have exactly and what they’re using them for. I’ve also known that professionals from dozens of industries are working at Google, for example, but what does an economist at Google do other than helping the company’s managem