Neustar held the .US domain names town hall last week. They mostly talked about how they do all these “great” marketing efforts they do and people on forums and blogs complained about that. But a …
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New GoDaddy phishing email and website using a domain registered at GoDaddy!
I received a scam email today that tries to trick domain name and website owners into going to some phishing website to supposedly agree to the new GoDaddy Universal Terms of Service Agreement. Here is …
Read More »Mike Mann: “What is a super premium domain name?”
Mike Mann talked again on Facebook about his new crowd appraisal system that he is rolling out soon. Here is what he said: “What is a Super Premium Domain Name? One that appraises over $10,000, …
Read More »The Michael Gleissner files: investigation reveals global trademarks and domain portfolio
World Trademark Review published an investigation on Michael Gleissner and his numerous companies, trademarks and domain names. Steeped in mystery, the operation spans at least 36 countries with an estimated cost of close to $750,000 for trademark …
Read More »Neustar has destroyed the .BIZ and .US domain name whois service
Neustar, Inc. has decided to destroy whois for .biz and .us domain names without even an announcement. That is probably because what they did is against ICANN rules. Domain name whois at port 43 is …
Read More »Escrow.com reduces the minimum domain name transaction fee from $25 to $10
Escrow.com reduced today the minimum domain name escrow transaction fee from $25 to $10. Jackson Elsegood, General Manager of Escrow.com, said that this was done to make it cheaper and easier to do transactions for …
Read More »Undeveloped is running a domain hack auction
Undeveloped is running a new domain name hack auction. The auction features 29 domains that are all ccTLD hacks. Undeveloped says that more domains will be added soon so you can probably still send your …
Read More »My thoughts on the Donuts New gTLDs and their stated 71% average renewal rate
Donuts published a health check on its TLDs and this time it includes all 40 of the newly acquired Rightside extensions. “Taking a glance at year-to-date numbers (through August 2017), the indicators are all positive. …
Read More »Domains using the Efty for-sale domain name landing pages got more than 1.4 million visitors in September
Efty sent out a tweet saying that Efty for-sale domain name landing pages reached more than 1.4 million visitors in September. Here is the tweet: Did you know: Efty For-Sale landing pages reached more than …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in September: Uniregistry, Topcoin & George Minardos, .Build, Michael Cyger, Rick Schwartz
September was a very busy month with a lot of important articles. The most popular articles were about Uniregistry, Topcoin and George Minardos, Michael Cyger, Rick Schwartz, Undeveloped, .Build, .Shop, .NYC and some other subjects. …
Read More »Join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the future of the .US extension
Neustar, the .US registry, is hosting a live town hall forum on Wednesday to discuss the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. Anyone can join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the …
Read More »Funniest domain name story of the month! wtf@wtf.wtf (???)
This is one of the funniest stories I have heard in the past few months! Imagine this: You are having issues with your email and then out of anger you try to send an email …
Read More »Was the $41.5 million price tag for .Shop domains worth it?
.Shop domain names turn one year old and as .shop celebrates its first anniversary, we take a look if the $41.5 million price tag paid by the registry was really worth it. It seems that …
Read More »Websites still don’t recognize all New gTLD email addresses
Today, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) released two reports aimed at measuring the state of popular browsers and websites and their ability to handle all domain names – including new, longer, or non-Latin top-level …
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