A new video came out presented by the SEMPO Education Committee called “2017 New Domain Research & Tactics”. SEMPO is a nonprofit trade organization serving the search and digital marketing industry and marketing professionals engaged in …
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Another reputation disaster: .XYZ takes back tens of NNN.xyz domain names
This is getting ridiculous from all aspects. I can’t even keep up with all the ridiculousness. Just after .XYZ launched this ridiculous promotion offering 1.111 billion numeric .xyz domain names at under a buck, a …
Read More »What is domain investing? (video)
GoDaddy published a video trying to explain in simple words what domain investing is. The video was buried in tens of other videos that were published on GoDaddy’s YouTube channel at the same time so …
Read More »Comparing Bitcoin with .XYZ domains! Doesn’t anyone care about credibility anymore?
I received one of the most ridiculous emails today from Frank Schilling, Founder and CEO of Uniregistry. The email is informing all Uniregistry customers of this new great “opportunity”. Uniregistry offers 1.111 billion (yes billion!) …
Read More »Recap of WHD.india & NamesCon India 2017 (video)
On May 18 and 19, 2017, WHD.india and NamesCon India were back-to-back for the first time. These complementary events brought together hundreds of people in cloud services, web hosting and domains in India. WHD.india 2017 …
Read More ».CLUB at Domaining Europe 2017 – Jeff Sass and Tanya Loh (video)
At the 2017 Domaining Europe conference in Berlin, Germany .CLUB’s CMO Jeff Sass presented an introduction to the recently launched .CLUB broker program, and 60-month easy payments on premium names at www.Get.Club. In addition, Jeff …
Read More »Tucows stops support for 9 Uniregistry New gTLDs
This is another hit to the Uniregistry New gTLD extensions. Tucows/OpenSRS will stop offering 9 of the Uniregistry extensions on September 8th, 2017 because of price increases. Registrants will not be able to register or renew …
Read More »Undeveloped.com and Domaining Europe auction ends today
The Undeveloped.com and Domaining Europe 2017 domain name auction ends in a few hours. The auction has been running since the 5th of May. Here are a few of the domains that had their reserve …
Read More »Renew or drop New gTLDs? The results are in and are not good!
Yesterday I asked readers to submit New gTLD domain names so I could review them and tell them if I would renew them or drop them. About 230 domains were submitted and I would probably …
Read More »Renew or drop? Post 10 New gTLDs domains and I will give you my opinion
I posted that I dropped about 200 New gTLD domains in March and April saving me about $45,000 in future renewals. A couple of people asked me if they should keep or drop their domains …
Read More »The people have spoken: Domaining Europe going to Rome in 2018?
Before Domaining Europe 2017 in Berlin was over Dietmar Stefitz asked the attendees where they wanted to have Domaining Europe 2018. Attendees decided that next year they wanted to go to Rome, Italy. Then Dietmar asked people online …
Read More »Just dropped 198 New gTLD domains and saved $45,000
Just saved about $45,000 of future renewals by dropping 200+ domains, including 198 New gTLDs. This is the review of my domain name renewals and drops in the months of March and April 2017. I …
Read More »Results of the tech .nyc domain name auction: web .nyc $8,638, startup .nyc $3,300
The tech .NYC premium domain auction was held at Snapnames and 18 of the 26 domains sold. Web.nyc and Startup.nyc were the top sellers. The 18 domains sold for a total of $28,872. The average …
Read More »Why do people tell me they will register an available domain and never do?
This happened to me 3 times in the past month. I had 3 domain name inquiries (for 1 .com, 1 .org and 1 .info) where the buyers said my price was too high (surprise!). All …
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