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What is your oldest domain name?

What is the oldest domain name you own? Mine is from 1994. Of course I only started domaining in July 2002, (almost 16 years back) but I have bought hundreds of domain names that have …

NamesCon Europe 2019 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal

A few days back the 10th anniversary of Domaining Europe ended. Founder Dietmar Stefitz handed over the reins to NamesCon. The host city for NamesCon Europe 2019 will be Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will be …

Donuts makes it easier to register .Travel domains

Donuts Inc. announced the re-launch of the .travel top-level domain (TLD), which it had acquired earlier this year. Donuts has simplified the registration process, making it much easier for registrars to offer the domain for sale, and easier …

Tucows and Enom make whois unnecessary difficult for some extra cash

Tucows and Enom (owned by Tucows) gave some more details on how their gated whois will work after GDPR. Tucows claims that they will ensure that only those with a legitimate interest are given access …

Mike Mann: “Every day there is at least one domain being deleted that is worth a million dollars.”

Mike Mann wtote on social media: “Every day there is at least one domain being deleted that is worth a million dollars. Not easy to find and get it first.” Andrew Rosener replied on twitter: …

Donuts announces acquisition of .Fan new domain name extension

Donuts Inc. today announced it has re-acquired the .fan top-level domain (TLD), making it the 241st TLD in Donuts’ portfolio. .fan names are anticipated to be generally available in mid-September. “We are excited to add .fan to …

“Brandable” Names vs. Keyword Domains (video)

.CLUB CMO Jeff Sass gave a keynote speech at NamesCon Europe 2018. “Fake words in names can be like Fake News – they can lead you to something other than the desired result. So-called “brandable” …

More details about Undeveloped’s blockchain: Domain Automation Network (DAN)

In the past months, Undeveloped had many conversations with other industry players, but no real commitments have been made by other parties to actually make DAN an industry powered Domain Automation Network. Undeveloped has decided …

Internet grows to 333.8m domains in Q1 2018 with no help from new gTLDs

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately …

ICANN appeals the GDPR German court decision and continues going after Tucows

ICANN continues being idiots by still going against Tucows for no reason other to not do anything about GDPR and blame it all on German courts. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) …

Colin Campbell: How to start, scale, exit and repeat a company (video)

Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB, talked at the 2018 Global Digital Summit (GDS). He discussed what the 4 key components are on how to start, scale, exit and repeat a company. GDS 2018 was held …

Intercap Holdings Inc. acquires the .inc new domain name extension

Intercap Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of the new domain name extension, following ICANN’s consent to the change of control. As the first domain ending in the Intercap Holdings portfolio, .inc is being brought to …

Trending domain name keywords: sports, bet, apple, gambling, blockchain, hemp, escort

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of May 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There were 2 common keywords in the 2 …

Denmark continues to publish domain name WHOIS records

Everybody is complaining about the Personal Data Regulation (GDPR), where in some cases all personal contact information in WHOIS databases has become hidden. This however will not be the case for Danish domain names (the …