A/B testing is one of the most effective ways of ensuring your AdSense ad units are performing to their full potential. Last year Google launched AdSense experiments to make A/B testing easy for your ad …
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Recording and Presentation of the .NYC launch event
In one of the largest expansions of the Internet to date, hundreds of newly approved gTLDs will become available in 2014. The .nyc domain launch is one of the most anticipated arrivals – and is …
Read More »65% .club domains from day 1 are not registered in .com
The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I did a search and found that 65% or 16,702 of the corresponding .com domains are not registered. 5,415 from these …
Read More »DropCatch.com is having a few problems
I guess you all have heard by now about the new backorder service that was launched by HugeDomains.com that is called DropCatch.com. I was bidding for the domain name Bespoke.com but stopped at about $18,000. …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Name Spam Emails
In just a few hours I got 2 different emails from people or companies trying to sell me .uno and .xyz New gTLD domains. That is excluding all the registrars that are sending me 10s …
Read More »Student Wins The Domain ThePirateBay.dk From Domainer In A Strange Case
TorrentFreak reported that a student from Denmark filed and won a complaint against James McAvoy of Bristol, UK, “who appears to be a prolific purchaser of domains” as Torrent Freak says, for the domain name …
Read More »ICANN’s New WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking one or more providers to assist ICANN in the development, operation, and maintenance of the WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System. Every year, millions of …
Read More »Some DomainNameSales.com Emails Are Caught By Spam Filters (And What To Do)
I can confirm that some DomainNameSales.com emails are caught by spam filters. Sure it depends on individual settings and the the service that each buyer is using but it is happening. I don’t know how …
Read More ».luxury gets 235 new registrations for $800 each on day 1 but some are from sunrise
Yesterday was the day 1 the .luxury New gTLD as it entered General Availability. .Luxury had about 570 domains registered in sunrise (most of them) and landrush before General Availability started. The retail price for …
Read More »The Overall Environment Of The Domain Name Industry (infographic)
The Domain Name Industry is a growing network that is immense in scope, made up of organizations, businesses and individuals involved in the business of domain names. In an effort to explain the subject, ICANN …
Read More »10 .COM Hand Registrations Versus 10 New gTLD Hand Registrations
I thought about posting my 10 latest .com hand registrations but then I thought why not include 10 of my New gTLD hand registrations as well for comparison? I am always looking to buy domains …
Read More »VitaminC.com Sold For $104,000 USD To A Supplement Manufacturer
Sedo announced the sale of the domain name VitaminC.com for $104,000 USD. The buyer is a company from Nevada, United States called Livon Labs. (The domain is behind whois privacy but if you check the …
Read More »ICANN publishes final Initial Evaluation New gTLD results
ICANN published the final Initial Evaluation (IE) New gTLD results. Out of the initial 1930 New gTLD applications 1783 applications passed the Initial Evaluation. Of course some of the applications were withdrawn before reaching the Initial …
Read More »Sedo sells 473 domains worth $1,4 million: Intensity.com $57k, Zilli.com 23k Euro (May 5 to May 11)
In the past week (May 5 to May 11), 473 (466 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,4 million ($1,2m last week). Only 195 (189 last week) domains from …
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