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Today is EAP day 5 for 5 New gTLDs from Donuts that are travel related: .vacations, .flights, .villas, .rentals and .cruises. Did you get any yet or will you get any in general availability? Donuts …

This is an article that ICANN’s CEO Fadi Chehadé wrote regarding the NTIA transition from the US government. He said that there are 4 steps before the transition: 1. Transition of U.S. government stewardship of …

This is the “buyer’s” response to a quote I send him for one of my domains: Thank you for your email. Yes we’re interested in the domain name. However, we’re a small IT company with …

The Domain Name Industry is a growing network that is immense in scope, made up of organizations, businesses and individuals involved in the business of domain names. In an effort to explain the subject, ICANN …

The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I checked to see who were the buyers that bought more than 100 .club domains each on day 1. There were …

While I have received more than 15 offers for my New gTLD domain names (but haven’t sold any) today I got my first offer through Uniregistry, the registrar owned by Frank Schilling. I am getting …

A/B testing is one of the most effective ways of ensuring your AdSense ad units are performing to their full potential. Last year Google launched AdSense experiments to make A/B testing easy for your ad …

In one of the largest expansions of the Internet to date, hundreds of newly approved gTLDs will become available in 2014. The .nyc domain launch is one of the most anticipated arrivals – and is …

The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I did a search and found that 65% or 16,702 of the corresponding .com domains are not registered. 5,415 from these …

I guess you all have heard by now about the new backorder service that was launched by HugeDomains.com that is called DropCatch.com. I was bidding for the domain name Bespoke.com but stopped at about $18,000. …

In just a few hours I got 2 different emails from people or companies trying to sell me .uno and .xyz New gTLD domains. That is excluding all the registrars that are sending me 10s …

TorrentFreak reported that a student from Denmark filed and won a complaint against James McAvoy of Bristol, UK, “who appears to be a prolific purchaser of domains” as Torrent Freak says, for the domain name …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking one or more providers to assist ICANN in the development, operation, and maintenance of the WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System. Every year, millions of …

I can confirm that some DomainNameSales.com emails are caught by spam filters. Sure it depends on individual settings and the the service that each buyer is using but it is happening. I don’t know how …