The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of December 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. Crypto related keywords dominate the list like last …
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A new Fabulous is coming in Q1 2018
DNC Holdings, dba Directnic.com acquired Fabulous.com back in November. Mike Robertson is coming back to Fabulous.com after being for over 3 years with Directnic. He was for 9 years at Fabulous before joining Directnic.com Fabulous.com …
Read More »Namecheap starts migration of all .COM/.NET domains from Enom/Tucows to its own registrar
Namecheap announced in December last year that they will be using their direct ICANN registrar accreditation for all new domain registrations, renewals and transfers. Today they start transferring all existing Namecheap-managed domain registrations from Enom’s sponsorship …
Read More »Giving away 5 free NamesCon 2018 tickets
NamesCon is just 3 weeks away and the conference is now offering 5 free tickets to readers of OnlineDomain.com. NamesCon Global 2018 will be held in Las Vegas in January 28-31, 2018. The give away …
Read More »Namejet sold 141 domains for $859,043 in December (protege.com, creek.com, moneysmart.com)
Namejet released it’s December 2017 domain name auctions report that includes some 3 and 4 letter .com domains and many 1-word domains. Namejet sold 141 (96 domains in November) domains in December for a total of $859,043 …
Read More »2018 finds New gTLDs below the 20 million domain name registration mark
We are almost 4 years into the New gTLD program and domain name registrations have fallen below the 20 million mark. These are the domain name registrations that according to NameStat.org are in the zone …
Read More »Undeveloped launches new way to setup “brand for sale” domain landing pages
Undeveloped.com launched a new way to setup “brand for sale” domain name landing pages. “To help your buyers visualize better which brand they’re acquiring and why the price for quality names is justified, we’ve launched …
Read More »Preventing domain name spoofing and email fraud using DMARC (and a few cases it doesn’t work)
DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. DMARC is a way to make it easier for email senders and receivers to determine whether or …
Read More »Mike Berkens filed a lawsuit against Twitter for his hacked account @TheDomains
Mike Berkens domain name investor and blogger at TheDomains.com has filed a lawsuit against Twitter after his Twitter account @TheDomains was hacked on the 22nd of December, 2017. Mike Berkens is using a temporary Twitter …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in November: “your best domains”, GoDaddy, Rick Schwartz, Mark Cuban, Mike Mann, Afternic
November was a slower month than October but still had some important articles. The most popular articles were about “your best domains”, GoDaddy, Rick Schwartz, Mark Cuban, Mike Mann, Afternic and some other subjects. About …
Read More »Please don’t change the deal terms after the agreement!
Twice in the past month I had 2 buyers change the terms of the domain name transaction after we had agreed and I had setup the escrow transaction. In these 2 cases both changed their …
Read More »Third quarter of 2017 closes with 330.7 million domain name registrations on the internet
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that the third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations as …
Read More »Afilias appointed to provide registry services for the .au domains
Afilias Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias plc, has been appointed to provide registry services for the .au domain from 1 July 2018 as part of auDA’s Registry Transformation Project. Afilias was one …
Read More »GoDaddy will cancel your domain name listing because of an unverified buyer!
GoDaddy will just cancel your domain name listing from GoDaddy Auctions if it gets an offer from an “unverified” buyer! An unverified buyer is a actually what they call a deadbeat buyer. Someone that makes …
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