It has been announced that the domain name fashion.com will be sold at auction this autumn. The announcement was made on the final day of Paris Fashion Week. “With the worldwide race in online fashion, I …
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Nominet increases .uk prices
Nominet announced that following the annual review of pricing, the wholesale cost for a .UK domain registration or renewal will change to £3.90 per year from 13 January 2020. Nominet claims that “the 15p per …
Read More »Expedited transfers have stopped working at GoDaddy
It seems that nothing works at GoDaddy lately. People have been complaining for weeks that they get error messages going to domain auctions or trying to manage their domain names. See here the latest problem …
Read More »Front-running ignorant spammer
I got an email that quickly summarizes what is wrong with some newbies (and sometimes not newbies) in domaining. From: alexisq0yeuclark @ gmail.com Hello! I noticed you have copyrightfilters.com. Are you interested in rightfilters.com? If …
Read More »Google releases a broad core algorithm update
Google announced that it released a broad core algorithm update, as they do several times per year. It is called the September 2019 Core Update. The September 2019 Core Update is now live and will …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 11 domains for $204,728 in August
Mike Mann reported selling 11 domain names in August for a total of $204,728. Prices started at $9,888 and went up to $29,888. Mike Mann sold 11 .com domains which you can see further below. …
Read More »MMX announces half year results (including a $5.1m settlement)
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), one of the world’s leading owners and operators of Internet Top-Level Domains (“TLDs”), announced the Group’s unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2019 …
Read More »Google search console improves data freshness
The Performance report helps webmasters and site owners better understand how their site performs on Google search, and answer questions such as: General stats: How much traffic did my site get from Search and Discover? …
Read More »Webinar: Domain Name Strategy 2020
CSC Digital Brand Services will be having a webinar with the title “Domain Name Strategy 2020: Blocks, WHOIS, Cyber Criminals and Other Challenges”. “As domain name policies, data privacy, cyber security regulations, and the global …
Read More »News from Rick Schwartz and Mike Mann
Here are some news that came out over the weekend from Mike Mann and Rick Schwartz. Rick Schwartz Rick announced that he will be using Rick.tv as the home of all the videos he has …
Read More »A few confusing changes at DropCatch.com
There have been a few confusing changes at DropCatch.com concerning payment. Up until last month when you won an auction you would get an email saying: “You currently have items in your DropCatch account that …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: jumbo, diabetes, repair, Taylor Swift
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of August 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »Meet the new expensive .ORG domains
It seems that .org is preparing us for a price increase that is most probably coming up in 2020. They are changing their brand (Meet the new .org) to prepare us for what was bound …
Read More »GoDaddy launches Websites + Marketing
GoDaddy launched its new product today called “Websites + Marketing” in the GoDaddy launch event 2019. GoDaddy Websites + Marketing is an all-in-one solution that “empowers every idea, business, side hustle or nonprofit cause to …
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