There is a new scam circulating fast using the Viber instant messaging app. The scam promises a 250 Euro gift card for Sephora in Greece and I was told there are more similar targeting other …

Yesterday the domain name SocialApp.com sold for $25,000 at GoDaddy auctions and that is an all time record price for a *app.com domain name. (together with wapp.com that also sold for $25k last year) Of …

Rick Schwartz talked today about the time he met Mark Cuban. 11 years ago Rick Schwartz won an auction for Make a Wish Foundation Children’s Charity on Ebay. The winning bidder ($6500) got to have …

There are an estimated 311 million domains under management over 1,500+ top-level domains globally. Over the past 2 years, quarterly growth rates have been decreasing since peaks in early 2016. The slowdown is the result …

I got inspired to write this post by a tweet made by Peter Sunde, founder of Njalla (and Pirate Bay), a privacy domain name registration service, about black Friday purchases: This Friday it’s “black friday”. …

Godaddy domains will now be able to be renewed up to only 30 days after expiry. This, I think, is supposed to fix the GoDaddy auctions problem where the domain name owner can current;y renew …

GoDaddy is doing a disservice to the domain name industry. They are a domain name auction house auctioning domains that may or MAY NOT be delivered to the winning bidder that has already paid. Any …

This is a domain name story that almost never happens. Or is it? So the story starts with this domain name that was coming up for renewal. It was a New gTLD domain: Hollywood.Agency. The …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of October 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. “cannabis” is the top keyword in .com while …

Nominet published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2017. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is being …

Radix registry shared the renewal rate for three of its most popular TLDs, .ONLINE, .TECH and .SITE. Launched in July and August 2015, these 3 TLDs are up for subsequent (2nd cycle) renewal and are …

.Radio entered General Availability today (from 15 November 2017 12:00 AM UTC). .Radio is not welcoming domain name speculators and its pricing seems a bit complicated. According to Namestat .radio gained 1,614 registrations during the …

World Hosting Days is rebranding to CloudFest. CloudFest 2018 will be held March 10-16, in Rust Germany. “Our industry is evolving at a blistering pace. The cloud is not only about bandwidth, storage, or connectivity …

Rick Schwartz, aka the Domain King, announced in a tweet today that he has sold his entire portfolio of 10 NNN.com domains. Rick did not disclose the price that the domains were sold but did …