Sometimes I get so blindsided by an email that I don’t even know where to begin writing a post. I got an email through the contact form on this blog from a guy in the …
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ICANN 68 will also be held as a remote public meeting
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), probably the most corrupted organization on planet earth, announced that its ICANN68 Policy Forum, which was to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will now be …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $69,776 in March
Mike Mann reported selling 2 domain names in March for a total of $69,776. Prices started at $19,888 and went up to $49,888. Mike Mann sold 2 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …
Read More »WIPO 2019 report: 3,693 UDRP cases covering 6,298 domain names
Trademark owners filed a record 3,693 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2019. WIPO’s 2019 caseload covered 6,298 domain names in total. The Center …
Read More »GoDaddy acquires Neustar’s registry business
Goodbye Neustar! Hello GoDaddy Registry! GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today announced it is acquiring Neustar Inc’s Registry business. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2020. …
Read More »Neustar will continue running the .CO domain registry
The Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MinTIC) of Colombia announced as the winner of the tender for the operation and administration of the .co country code top level domain (.co ccTLD) to .CO Internet …
Read More »ISOC Ireland: “Ethos does not seem to understand or care about the .ORG community.”
The Internet Society (ISOC) Ireland send a letter to ICANN on March 31, 2020 saying that “Ethos does not seem to understand or care about the .ORG community.”. This is one of many ISOC chapters …
Read More »Thanks for nothing: Verisign waives the domain name restore fee!
Last week, Verisign promised to not raise the .com prices (even though ICANN had not YET granted Verisign the permission to steal millions of dollars from the global economy by allowing 7% price increases for …
Read More ».Club 2019 premium sales report
Since its launch .CLUB has earned total premium name revenue of $7.7 million USD. .CLUB is close to its sixth year of operation. They created 3 major programs and products to assist end-users to have …
Read More »Pay your fucking bills!
I see a lot of people lately that are looking for an excuse to not pay their bills on time. (or ever?) And I am not talking about people that have lost their jobs or …
Read More »Efty stats: inquiries are down, traffic is up!
Efty decided to share some important stats around the impact the coronavirus outbreak has on domain name inquiries and traffic across its platform. “The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is having a profound and serious …
Read More »Shop.app sold for $200,000 (bought on the 1st day of .app EAP)
The domain name Shop.app sold for $200,000 at Sedo and it was not a registry sale. The seller was from California and the domain was brokered by Yiming Yang. The domain name is pending transfer …
Read More »Adjusting your business to overcome the Coronavirus pandemic
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected almost everyone in the world one way or another. A friend send me an email telling he is in self-quarantine, he can’t practice his main profession and is using this …
Read More »DAN removes all Corona Virus related domains
DAN.com announced that starting today it will be removing all Corona Virus related domains from its marketplace. I mostly support the decision but I just think that the justification shouldn’t have been price related. It …
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