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Mobile phone company Motorola has failed in its attempt to appropriate the domain name MOTORAZR.com without compensation from the domain's original registrant, Vincent Nguyen of R3 Media.
Nguyen, who runs the phone and gadget review sites SlashPhone and SlashGear, had coined the expression MOTORAZR in July 2004, which led to his registration of MOTORAZR.com for a [...]

The latest weekly top 20 list of reported domain sales is shown below (thanks to DNJournal). Refresh.com leads the list; the domain was sold by Hong Kong-based Adosi Ltd. for $115,000 in a private transaction.
Last week also saw the expiration of a large number of adult-related domains, which were immediately snapped up by drop catchers, [...]

In a relatively short period of time, Sedo's domain auction service has established itself as a viable venue for domain buyers and sellers alike. The percentage of high quality domains has shown to be much higher on Sedo than on alternative markets such as domainer forums and eBay.
Additionally, many Sedo auctions seem to close at [...]

The situation at troubled domain registrar RegisterFly has descended into outright chaos.
Registerfly's parent company, Unified Names, fired and sued former President and CEO Kevin Medina earlier this month, blaming him for the company's meltdown due to his alleged embezzlement of operating funds.
Shortly after he was dismissed, Medina reportedly embarked on a spree of destruction throughout [...]

TrafficClub, a domain parking service and aggregator, and DomainSponsor, which was providing the former with two different versions of Google's pay-per-click advertising feed, recently parted ways.
Like most breakups, it wasn't pretty.
A few days ago we received the following email in our inbox:
Dear Domain Owner,
As someone with a valuable domain portfolio, we would like to invite [...]

One of the questions that we most frequently hear from new and potential domainers is this one:
"Is it really possible to make money by registering new domains and then reselling them?"
The answer is a definite and resounding yes. The Daily Domainer knows of many domains that were freshly registered in 2005 or 2006 and later [...]

Assume for a second that you're among the almost 80% of people that use Internet Explorer to surf the web. You're looking for Lexus Financial Services. You know that their actual domain name is LexusFinancial.com. But for some reason you enter Lexus-Financail.com into your browser bar - and you're in good company, because millions of [...]