Escrow.com reduced today the minimum domain name escrow transaction fee from $25 to $10. Jackson Elsegood, General Manager of Escrow.com, said that this was done to make it cheaper and easier to do transactions for …
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Undeveloped is running a domain hack auction
Undeveloped is running a new domain name hack auction. The auction features 29 domains that are all ccTLD hacks. Undeveloped says that more domains will be added soon so you can probably still send your …
Read More »My thoughts on the Donuts New gTLDs and their stated 71% average renewal rate
Donuts published a health check on its TLDs and this time it includes all 40 of the newly acquired Rightside extensions. “Taking a glance at year-to-date numbers (through August 2017), the indicators are all positive. …
Read More »Domains using the Efty for-sale domain name landing pages got more than 1.4 million visitors in September
Efty sent out a tweet saying that Efty for-sale domain name landing pages reached more than 1.4 million visitors in September. Here is the tweet: Did you know: Efty For-Sale landing pages reached more than …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in September: Uniregistry, Topcoin & George Minardos, .Build, Michael Cyger, Rick Schwartz
September was a very busy month with a lot of important articles. The most popular articles were about Uniregistry, Topcoin and George Minardos, Michael Cyger, Rick Schwartz, Undeveloped, .Build, .Shop, .NYC and some other subjects. …
Read More »Join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the future of the .US extension
Neustar, the .US registry, is hosting a live town hall forum on Wednesday to discuss the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. Anyone can join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the …
Read More »Funniest domain name story of the month! wtf@wtf.wtf (???)
This is one of the funniest stories I have heard in the past few months! Imagine this: You are having issues with your email and then out of anger you try to send an email …
Read More »Was the $41.5 million price tag for .Shop domains worth it?
.Shop domain names turn one year old and as .shop celebrates its first anniversary, we take a look if the $41.5 million price tag paid by the registry was really worth it. It seems that …
Read More »Websites still don’t recognize all New gTLD email addresses
Today, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) released two reports aimed at measuring the state of popular browsers and websites and their ability to handle all domain names – including new, longer, or non-Latin top-level …
Read More »Google starts using HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for all its 45 TLDs
Google announced that they want the internet more secure and because of that they have added another tool in their toolbox, the HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preload list. The HSTS preload list is built …
Read More »A fundamental mistake in domain name investing
This is a fundamental mistake in domain name investing and even experienced domainers do this mistake even without realizing it. Some people think that the simple the fact of owning many domain names will sooner …
Read More »I had a failed domain purchase at Afternic & DomCollect, Sedo, New Ventures Services, Web.com are involved
I bought a .com domain name for $1,500 using the BIN price at Afternic on the 28th of August. The domain name was then refunded 2 days later with little to no explanation as to …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 7 domains in August for $124,188 (Buys LinkedTin.com for $10)
Mike Mann reported selling 7 domain names in August for a total of $124,188. Mike had 5 5-figure sales and another 1 sale very close to $10k. Highest reported sale was NorthLife.com that sold for $32,500. …
Read More »WordPress recommends you get a .COM domain name
WordPress and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress and the new .blog extension, are recommending that you should get a .com domain name if both the .com and .blog domains are available. Automattic has setup …
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