I received an email from Anton Waldburg who let me know about his interesting domain name project called Listfish. The objective of Listfish is to connect the owners of unused domain names with people and startups that can utilize them. The domain names can be donated or an investment proposal can be made.

Here’s a description of Listfish and how it can help connect domain name owners and people who can use a domain name for their project:

There’s an interesting article you’ll probably enjoy on Crain’s Detroit about entrepreneur Earl Braxton, whose company is in the portable toilet business. You’ll likely enjoy reading the article about Braxton’s business, but I think you’ll find the short part about domain names to be of particular interest.

Here’s an excerpt from the article that discusses domain names owned by Braxton’s company:

During the past 15+years or so, politicians and aspiring politicians have used domain names to their advantage. Most register their own name domain names, many register catch phrase domain names, and some register the domain names of their opponents.

It seems that there is a domain name story about a politician registering an opponent’s domain name every election cycle. This year is no different, as Philadelphia news outlets have picked up on a Philadelphia City Council election where one candidate registered the full name .com domain name of his opponent.

Philadelphia Business Journal posted a poll asking people

In the wake of the Sony hacking news and changes to  the premiere schedule and venue of the controversial movie, The Interview, I thought it would be interesting to see how many domain names were registered with the  keywords, “theinterview” and “Sony.” It often seems that people will registered domain names related to current events, despite the fact that trademark domain name ownership is risky.

I took a look at Verisign’s DomainView Keyword Trend tool to see what domain names were registered with certain keywords in the prior 30 days, and here is what I found:

There have been