Radix announced that its flagship TLD, .ONLINE, has surpassed 1 million domains under management. .ONLINE is one among the few nTLDs that have crossed the 1 million mark, which now makes it the 5th largest …
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.CLUB registry rakes in $500,000 in premium domain sales
.Club sold 2,072 premium names through the registrar channel and the Tiered Premium program during the first six months of 2018, for a total of $379,972.93. Sales of .CLUB domains from Names.club for the six …
Read More »Google introduces reCAPTCHA v3 to fight spam
Google introduces reCAPTCHA v3 that is a new version that detects abusive traffic on your website without user friction. It returns a score for each request you send to reCAPTCHA and gives you more flexibility …
Read More »Injunction denied! (Oliver Hoger against Konstantinos Zournas)
A Greek court denied the injunction brought by Oliver Hoger against Konstantinos Zournas and OnlineDomain.com in a Greek court. The judge found, among other things, that since the article in question did not contain false …
Read More »Every new website on AdSense now needs to be verified
Every new website on AdSense will now need to be verified according to Google’s new quality efforts. Google wants to improve quality in AdSense and make it more attractive to advertisers which in turn leads …
Read More »Radix shares latest premium New gTLD domain name sales
Radix announced that it has made one-time premium name sales of more than $137K since August 2018. These one-time sales were made through domain marketplace SEDO and via top registrar partners. Names that fetched maximum …
Read More ».Com and .net domains increase by 1.99 million in Q3 – Renewal rate was 75% in Q2
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the third quarter of 2018. Verisign ended the third quarter with 151.7 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 4.0 percent …
Read More »(Not) staying out of drama!
Shane wrote about me and my court battle with Oliver Hoger yesterday. This piece was wrong in so many levels I didn’t even know where to begin. So I waited a day before writing this. …
Read More »Epik.com starts offering perpetual domain registrations
Epik.com announced today that they have started offering perpetual domain registrations for hundreds of popular domain extensions. And they claim they are first domain name registrar to do so. Although perpetual registrations are not yet …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 7 domains in September for $146,552 (DollarCity[.]com, BuyPods[.]com, etc.)
Mike Mann reported selling 7 domain names in September for a total of $146,552. Prices started at $1,000 and went up to $90,000. Mike Mann sold 5 .com domains, 1 .org and 1 .co. The …
Read More »Oliver Hoger filed a court injunction against Konstantinos Zournas and OnlineDomain.com
Oliver Hoger filed an injunction against Konstantinos Zournas and OnlineDomain.com in a Greek court. The injunction (I am not exactly sure what this procedure is called in foreign courts or if there an exact equivalent …
Read More »Escrow.com launches Escrow Offer that allows negotiations
Escrow.com announced the launch of Escrow Offer, which allows sellers to negotiate a price for cars, boats, aircraft, domain names, jewellery, fine art and more through a Pay Now button. Escrow Offer is a tool …
Read More »Funniest domain name “inquiries” of the week!
I have decided to start documenting and posting every week the domain name “inquiries” and the messages that come with them. Well actually these are not really domain name inquiries. These are people that are …
Read More »Donuts launches Travel.Domains
Donuts Inc. announced the launch of the www.travel.domains website, with features to enable travel organizations, enthusiasts and industry professionals to browse, discover and purchase travel domains from its TLD portfolio. Donuts acquired the .TRAVEL domain …
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