I would think that most people in the domain space believe that just about everyone should own a domain name. Small businesses, politicians, bloggers, and others tend to appreciate owning the exact match .com domain name of their business or personal name. Many families even register the domain name of their baby shortly before or after birth. I had an idea about hosting  a “domain name buying party” for friends to buy domain names and receive affiliate revenue as a result.

The idea is pretty simple. Someone invites friends and family over to discuss domain names. The host then shows people how to register domain names at a specific domain name registrar, using their affiliate code. The host would get affiliate revenue for each registration, and they’d likely be paid for renewals, too.

This idea might sound out there, but I

I hope that you are finishing up a nice weekend. I spent mine with friends, family, and football :-). I want to share a couple of blog updates with you.

For some reason, I have been noticing a TON of spam over the course of the past couple of months. It seems like a massive influx lately. Luckily, the spam filter seems to catch most of the spam, but the additional spam means it’s more difficult for me to identify legit comments that were accidentally flagged as spam. If you post a comment and it seems to disappear, it likely means it was sent to the spam folder. If this happens to you, please contact me and I will try to find and approve the comment manually.

I am on Domaining.com most of the day, but I often

In a live event held this afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced “an entirely new payment process” that the company has branded Apple Pay. The branding is the Apple logo with Pay next to it, so I am not sure if it is ApplePay or Apple Pay. Interestingly, Apple does not appear to own the ApplePay.com domain name.

If you visit ApplePay.com, you can see that the domain name is used by a company called AppleOne Payroll. I checked the Whois record as well as the historical Whois record, and it does not appear that the domain name has changed hands. Perhaps luckily for

One of the leading men’s health and fitness publications, Mens Fitness, has named Sol Orwell one of 44 “Game Changers” for 2014. Sol, formerly known as Ahmed Farooq, is known by many in the domain investment space, as he has been an active domain name investor for many years. Shortly after launching Examine.com, I wrote about the startup to discuss Sol’s plans for the business as well as how much he paid for the Examine.com domain name.

Sol is in some good company on this year’s list of “Game Changers.” Some of  the other more recognizable “Game Changers” honored by Mens Fitness include Michael Sam of the Dallas Cowboys, Yasiel Puig of the Los Angeles Dodgers, musician and DJ Calvin Harris, and comedian and television host Stephen Colbert. Those chosen by Mens Fitness as Game Changers include people from a variety of fields who “have made 2014 their very own.”

On his blog, Sol recently reported that Examine.com has earned

http://t.co/2wQohnhC84 is now online

— DN.com (@wwwDNcom) September 4, 2014

For quite some time, I think Escrow.com was the only independent licensed escrow service for domain name transactions. More recently, Agreed, Escrow Hill, and eCop launched escrow services targeting the domain name space, and I just learned that another company, DN.com, has entered the market. Based on the timing of the tweet above, the company launched a couple of days ago.

According to the About page on the DN.com website, DN.com is “an international domain name escrow platform, affiliates with the well-known domain marketplace 4.cn. DN.com aims to assist customers to proceed secured international domain name transactions.”

As you may recall, the DN.com domain name was being brokered by Domain Holdings with an asking price of $750,000. Shortly after the listing went public, I noticed a Whois changed, and in a subsequent article, I asked “Did 4.CN Acquire DN.com?” Shane Cultra later reported that the company confirmed it had acquired the domain name and Shane  said the company planned to “create a brand new platform that targets a larger international audience.”

After reporting the sale of DN.com and reading more about it on Shane’s Blog,