I don’t know why GoDaddy can’t do a single thing right unless its customers complain for getting screwed. There have been years and years of complaints since 2012 on this blog while I have been …
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A few details on the $335,000 Free.Games sale
The sale of the domain name Free.Games was reported on Wednesday. The domain was sold by WebQuest for $335,000. The buyer is not yet known as the domain name is under whois privacy and nameservers …
Read More »Second level .au domain names are coming this year
Second level .au domain names – such as forexample.au – will soon be available in the .au country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) after the auDA board adopted the proposed Implementation Rules for the .au …
Read More »Internet grows to 351.8 million domain names in Q1 of 2019
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the first quarter of 2019 closed with 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.1 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared …
Read More »Rick Schwartz’s Asheville Meetup – Who is going…
Rick Schwartz is having a domain investor meetup at Asheville. See here details of the event and who is going to the “1st Annual Asheville Professional Domain Investors Meetup & Family Outing“. Date and Time: …
Read More »No, we can not rename New gTLDs
New gTLDs are called New gTLDs. Period. This is the only way the industry can understand what we are talking about. All other people just calls everything “domains” or a few people call them “new …
Read More »UK registrars angry with Nominet
More than 15 UK registrars are angry with Nominet’s proposed .uk right of registration (ROR) release process planned for 1st July – 5th July 2019. Over 3 million remaining .uk rights are set to be …
Read More »Google makes Mobile-First indexing the default for new domains
Google announced that it is making Mobile-First indexing the default for all new domains. Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing – Google’s crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot – Google’s analysis has …
Read More »Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name!
People are looking for real numbers regarding domain names so here they are! This is proof based on real business numbers. Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name! Simple …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 3 domains for $47,776 in April
Mike Mann reported selling 3 domain names in April for a total of $47,776. Prices started at $7,800 and went up to $40,000. Mike Mann sold 3 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …
Read More »CentralNic looking to again double in size in 2019
CentralNic is looking to again double in size in 2019 after “transformational” year. Ben Crawford, chief executive of CentralNic Group PLC (LON:CNIC), chats to Proactive London’s Andrew Scott following the release of their 2018 results. …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: drug, rehab, freedom, repro
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More ».Amazon domain names are getting closer
So after years of going back and forth it seems that the .Amazon domain name are getting closer to coming live soon. It seems that ICANN just ignored its own rules and the governments of …
Read More »CentralNic acquires Australian TPP Wholesale
CentralNic Group PLC (AIM: CNIC) announces it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the Sydney-based business TPP Wholesale that claims to be the leading Australian and New Zealand platform for resellers of domain …
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