Heather Dopson, a community builder at GoDaddy, and Joe Styler, the aftermarket product manager at GoDaddy, chatted about the basics of buying Expired Domains on GoDaddy’s auctions. They talked about the timeline of when and …
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Breaking: ICANN & Verisign Propose 6-Year Extension Of The .COM Registry Agreement Until 2024
ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement …
Read More »Some Domains You Can Buy Cheap On The Undeveloped.com New gTLD Auction
The Undeveloped.com New gTLD auction is underway with just 7 days left so the Undeveloped team shared the most undervalued names that they currently have in auction. The auction runs from the 20th June to …
Read More »Sedo: Number Of Sold Domains Is On A Steady Decline Since 2010 (Down 38,7%)
I wrote an article 2 days ago called “Is Sedo Slowly Dying?” and Andrew Allemann from DomainNameWire.com added more stats on this article. So here are a few more numbers I found about the amount …
Read More »Google Domains Offers A Free Domain Name
Google Domains wants to grow its domain name business so they are now offering one free domain name (.com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info, a $12 value) to each of their customers. The free domain …
Read More »How DigitalTown Will Use 11,000 .City Domains (DT Bought 400 .City Domains In The Aftermarket)
Robert Monster, CEO of DigitalTown.com and Epik.com, made a lengthy comment (and then a few more smaller comments) on the article I wrote about the announcement of the new DigitalTown platform involving 11,000 .City domain …
Read More ».CO Has Its First Auction In China On 22.CN (CY.co, XD.co, XN.co, etc.)
.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., will launch its first Chinese auction on July 5. The auction, which will be held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, will offer many two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concludes …
Read More »Is Sedo Slowly Dying?
I have been following the Sedo domain name sales reports for years now. This week’s report was the smallest I have seen. Sedo domain name sales have been on a steady decline for 3-4 years …
Read More »Video: Summary of Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou, China
Pinkard Alan ‘Pinky’ Brand attended the Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou, a conference with over 1,000 attendees. On behalf of ChopChop.domains, he put together the following video summary that will give you a little taste …
Read More »DigitalTown Announces .CITY Domain Network – Buys 11,000 .City Domain Names
DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) today announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .CITY domains for use with an international rollout of the DigitalTown’s flagship Smart City Platform and the Global Smart City Network. …
Read More »GoDaddy Warns About Phishing Email Targeting Valuable Domain Names
Joe Styler, GoDaddy’s Aftermarket Product Manager, issued a warning on NamePros about a new phishing email targeting owners of valuable domain names registered with GoDaddy. These kind of phishing emails are not uncommon so people …
Read More »Donuts Wants To Buy Rightside’s 30+ Domain Extensions For $70 Million
Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …
Read More »No Action Will Be Taken Yet Against .EU Domain Names Registered By Residents In UK
EURid, the .eu and .ею domain name registry, issued a statement today regarding the United Kingdom referendum results and .eu domains owned by UK residents. On 23 June 2016 voters in the UK referendum expressed …
Read More »Report: 92% Of NGOs Have A Website (70% .ORG, 9% .COM, 18% ccTLDs & others)
The Public Interest Registry and the Nonprofit Tech for Good published the report of a research project: “2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report”. This is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how …
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