Domain Name News

GoDaddy published a video trying to explain in simple words what domain investing is. The video was buried in tens of other videos that were published on GoDaddy’s YouTube channel at the same time so …

I received one of the most ridiculous emails today from Frank Schilling, Founder and CEO of Uniregistry. The email is informing all Uniregistry customers of this new great “opportunity”. Uniregistry offers 1.111 billion (yes billion!) …

On May 18 and 19, 2017, WHD.india and NamesCon India were back-to-back for the first time. These complementary events brought together hundreds of people in cloud services, web hosting and domains in India. WHD.india 2017 …

At the 2017 Domaining Europe conference in Berlin, Germany .CLUB’s CMO Jeff Sass presented an introduction to the recently launched .CLUB broker program, and 60-month easy payments on premium names at www.Get.Club. In addition, Jeff …

This is another hit to the Uniregistry New gTLD extensions. Tucows/OpenSRS will stop offering 9 of the Uniregistry extensions on September 8th, 2017 because of price increases. Registrants will not be able to register or renew …

The Undeveloped.com and Domaining Europe 2017  domain name auction ends in a few hours. The auction has been running since the 5th of May. Here are a few of the domains that had their reserve …

Yesterday I asked readers to submit New gTLD domain names so I could review them and tell them if I would renew them or drop them. About 230 domains were submitted and I would probably …

I posted that I dropped about 200 New gTLD domains in March and April saving me about $45,000 in future renewals. A couple of people asked me if they should keep or drop their domains …

Before Domaining Europe 2017 in Berlin was over Dietmar Stefitz asked the attendees where they wanted to have Domaining Europe 2018. Attendees decided that next year they wanted to go to Rome, Italy. Then Dietmar asked people online …

Just saved about $45,000 of future renewals by dropping 200+ domains, including 198 New gTLDs. This is the review of my domain name renewals and drops in the months of March and April 2017. I …

The tech .NYC premium domain auction was held at Snapnames and 18 of the 26 domains sold. Web.nyc and Startup.nyc were the top sellers. The 18 domains sold for a total of $28,872. The average …

This happened to me 3 times in the past month. I had 3 domain name inquiries (for 1 .com, 1 .org and 1 .info) where the buyers said my price was too high (surprise!). All …

Today was the 3rd and last day of Domaining Europe 2017 in Berlin, Germany. You can see photos from the first 2 days here. Braden Pollock was again the Moderator of Domaining Europe 2017 along with …

You can now make Euro transactions at Escrow.com again. The feature was lost a few months back while the company started enforcing the KYC (know your customer) requirements while also changing their banking partner. Euro …