PIR agrees to give ICANN an extension for deciding whether to accept or deny the transfer of the .org extension. Meanwhile “No Ethos Capital” tries to strengthen the PIC and .ORG Stewardship Council. See the …
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No Ethos Capital tries to strengthen the PIC and .ORG Stewardship Council
No Ethos Capital announces additional steps trying to strengthen the Public Interest Commitment (PIC) and .ORG Stewardship Council. All these additional steps is just a smokescreen trying to persuade some people that don’t yet know …
Read More »Anyone that buys a domain and tries to sell it is not a domainer
There has been a lot of talk about whether it is ethical to purchase coronavirus related domains. Well, it all depends on what kind of domains you buy AND what you do with them. I …
Read More »Namesilo to launch a new domain back-ordering platform
Namesilo will be launching a new domain back-ordering platform called Catch.Club. Catch.Club, that has not yet launch, claims to be solving the problem of using dozens of registrar platforms for backordering domains? No more multiple …
Read More »Will you be able to pay for domain name renewals?
As we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic the next couple of months will be difficult for everyone worldwide. It will be especially difficult for people that don’t have a steady income and/or …
Read More »Premium domains coming to .BIZ domains (.org and .info will follow!)
Starting Wednesday, 25 March 2020, the .BIZ registry (Neustar) will be launching their premium domains. These are previously registry reserved names that will be available for registration in 11 premium tiers through domain name registrars. …
Read More »Verisign Q4 2019 report: Internet grows to 362.3 million domain names
Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the fourth quarter of 2019 closed with 362.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.4 …
Read More »Saying domain prices are inflated is stupid…
Anyone that says that domain prices were/are inflated is stupid. Anyone that says it today, that is. Of course there are people that always say that domain name prices are going up or people that …
Read More »Facebook sues Namecheap – Namecheap stands firm
Facebook is suing the popular registrar Namecheap alleging it is “Protecting People from Domain Name Fraud“. This week we filed a lawsuit in Arizona against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, as well as its proxy …
Read More »Mike Mann sells Ready.org for 6-figures
Mike Mann announced on Twitter that he sold the domain name Ready.org for a 6-figure price. He actually announced the sale again a few days back but he deleted that tweet. I guess he was …
Read More »Enom updates pricing structure
Enom registrar, that is owned by Tucows, has announced that it will be changing the reseller price structure effective as of April 1st, 2020. My understanding (from the not so clear info given by Enom) …
Read More ».EU Q4 2019 report: registrations keep decreasing
EURid released its Q4 2019 Progress Report sharing the quarterly statistics, developments, and overview of the .eu website categorization study. Highlights include: Three major releases; 161 690 new domain name registrations recorded; Norway tops the …
Read More »DAN: fully automated ownership verification
DAN.COM announced today a new feature giving sellers the option for fully automated ownership verification for domain listings. The fully automated ownership verification is accomplished by adding a unique verification nameserver (different for every DAN …
Read More »Casting a doubt on all domain name sales
I have been reporting Mike Mann’s domain sales monthly for almost 4 years. Every couple of months there is someone that will say something like “Mike’s sales are fake”, “if these sales were real then …
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