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A great new book just hit the stands, “The Domain Game” by David Kesmodel is an intriguing book about our industry. The book is filled with people that I am intimately familiar with, so it was fascinating to read the book on many different levels. I was also mentioned a few times in the book but the best part was reading the many other stories in the book that I had never heard.

I almost lost my domain permanently because I was unaware it was expiring. I got an alert from our new Registrant Alert system on DomainTools and it saved my ass. I am extremely thankful we invented this system. It is nice to have an example I can point to so soon after launching the service. The alert told me that “Registercom” now owned my domain. That was a huge tip off that the registrar was about to delete my domain.

Acquisition is a major milestone in Thought Convergence’s strategy of developing a self-sustaining, symbiotic Domain Ecosystem that services the global domain community.

We are exclusively listing Harmony.com for sale. It is being offered at a $5 Million dollar reserve price. We will consider all creditable offers for the next two weeks. If you would like to place a bid, please contact me at “harmony [at] domaintools.com”. This is a fantastic generic domain with a lot of uses. This domain gets an incredible amount of traffic. This is a private auction. To participate you must apply.

Melbrourne IT just announced to me they purchased the Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) division from Verisign. This makes it clear that VeriSign is going back to focusing on the more profitable registry business. I talked with William Roper (CEO of Verisign) less then a year ago and he indicated that a leaner more focused business was his goal as the incoming CEO.

We are installing some really neat servers on our network right now. I could not resist taking pictures while the engineers were putting them together. We just purchased 10 servers (and one fail over server) that each take 64GB of ram. This totally takes me down memory lane (no pun intended) to when I had a summer job in High School, my first computer job was selling Memory for Seattle Memory.

We are installing some really neat servers on our network right now. I could not resist taking pictures while the engineers were putting them together. We just purchased 10 servers (and one fail over server) that each take 64GB of ram. This totally takes me down memory lane (no pun intended) to when I had a summer job in High School, my first computer job was selling Memory for Seattle Memory.

Looks like the domains with zero dollar reserves have little mini bidding wars going on several days before the auction closes. It is sort of fun to watch. One example is the combined two domain lot of SecretCode.com & SecretCodes.com. We let this Lot into the auction with a zero dollar reserve and people are aggressively bidding on it.

Super premium domain the Illusionist.com is for sale at the Domain Roundtable Live auction event on April 21st. The Illusionist.com is for a company that wants amuse an audience. The brand is perfect because it is used by some many people around the world. Everything from TV shows to Movies have used the generic description, there is really no way around talking about an Illusionist without using the proper name.