This is a hard thing to find out unless you’re a regular follower of the domain name industry. Unfortunately, one can’t run a WHOIS search based on owner name.

However according to this post on Domain Name Wire, NameMedia (they run buydomains.com) may indeed be the largest owner of domain names.

This post also [...]

There is an art to selling anything. The same is true for selling domain names. I personally don’t feel qualified to give you advice in this area, but I can point you to Domain Name Wire’s series “Selling Domains 101″. Currently, this series is made up of five posts that cover various aspects of selling [...]

The domain name market is exploding with places to sell domain names. A lot of registrars are beginning to offer their customers services for selling their domains. If you are interested in selling a domain name here are eight places to consider:

Sedo – Sedo has becomes one of the quickest growing domain name marketplaces. [...]

Transferring domain names refers to the process of switching domain name registrars. Transferring domain names has nothing to do with the process of transferring ownership. The transfer of ownership is typically referred to in terms of buying and selling.

Why would you want to transfer a domain name from one registrar to another?
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One of my favorite domain registrars is Moniker. Feel free to use your own registrar of choice. I will be using screen shots from Moniker as examples.

On the Moniker website, I enter my desired domain name in their Advanced Domain Search window.

Clicking “search now” returns all the possible [...]

Brand based domains are domain names chosen based on a particular name by which that website or product will be known or marketed. These kinds of names are typically not keyword rich. Keep in mind that even keyword based domain names are “branded.”

Almost all current retail brick and mortar stores use their retail name [...]

Domains based on keywords are the most common since they typically use words that are typically used in the English (or native) language. My website, Recommended Web Tools is an example of a domain name based on keywords.

What are keywords?
Keywords are the actual words and phrases used by people searching the search [...]

So what makes up a quality domain name?

use real words found in any standard dictionary preferably use generic words not esoteric words no more than 4 words used in the domain. If 4 words are used, these words should be fairly short (see character length below). Ideally 1-3 words make a better domain [...]

Internet – The collective whole of networked computers across the globe. This includes the World Wide Web, email, FTP and other protocols.

World Wide Web – a portion of the Internet where websites reside. It is graphically capable and is supported by such languages as HTML and CSS.

URL – Universal/Uniform Resource locator – [...]

It almost seems silly to me to answer the question “What are domain names?”. It is almost akin to someone who has been driving for years asking “What is a street address?”

I have watched beginners and followed various reports and keyword lists to determine the following:

- average World Wide Web users tend to [...]

Looking for a good domain name registrar?

Every year Name Intelligence (they are the company behind the Domain Tools website) produces a series of awards. These awards are focused on the Domain Name industry and are aptly named “The Name Intelligence Awards“. They hand out these awards during the spring (so, yes, [...]

I am starting 2007 with a series on domain names. Look for several domain related posts in the next weeks. I will also be publishing an ebook on domain names. I hope to do this by weeks end (if not, then next week.) This ebook will focus on beginners and will be available for free. [...]

Do you have one of those long unwieldly URL’s from Flickr, MySpace, YouTube or other personal web sites? Ever tried to share that URL with a friend?

You can’t dictate it, it is too long and too complicated. You can send it in an email, but long URL’s sometimes get broken when the email is [...]

iREIT President Marc Ostrofsky defines cybersquatting:

Let me defining cyber-squatting, since I’ve been called a cyber-squatter. A cyber-squatter is someone who owns a name that is trademarked, copywritten or otherwise [intellectual property]-protected by another firm. But as an industry, we typically only buy generic names like “cars,” “shoes,” or “mutualfunds.” I wouldn’t ever own [...]

Every day thousands of domain names expire. Snapnames is a great resource to find and purchase those expiring domain names.

What is an expired domain name?

When a domain name is registered (purchased and submitted to the correct registration authorities), it has a certain life. Typically, a registration period is one year. Sometimes owners [...]

Sedo is the place to go to buy or sell a registered non-expired domain name. In contrast, places like Snapnames focus on soon-to-expire domain names or something like Domaintools locates actually expired domain names.

Sedo claims to have 3 million domain names for sale. It is hard to verify that number, but from doing [...]