The latest update on the HeidiPowell.com domain name case is that the motion for a stay by Grandma Heidi was denied on the August 30. “I’m sad to report that the same judge who decided …
Read More »GoDaddy will stop offering all Uniregistry domain names
GoDaddy will stop offering all Uniregistry domain names and extensions on August 29, 2017. A few months back GoDaddy suspended all Uniregistry extensions after the price increases were announced but then reinstated (some and then) …
Read More »Mike Mann repricing 150,000 .Com domains
Mike Mann talked on Facebook about his 150,000 .Com domain repricing project and the difficulties he is having. “My 150,000 .Com domain repricing project is working sort of but not really. I buy new ones …
Read More »Namecheap CEO: “Inciting Violence vs Freedom of Speech”
Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap, wrote an article about suspending the domain name DailyStormer.lol. The article called “Inciting Violence vs Freedom of Speech” was written (and later edited) the Namecheap CEO can be summarized in …
Read More »Namecheap will discontinue several Uniregistry and XYZ domain extensions
Namecheap announced that it will be discontinuing several of the Uniregistry and XYZ domain name extensions (plus .rich and .luxury) on September 7, 2017. Kudos to Namecheap! The domain name registrar said that it has …
Read More »George Kirikos: “How can *objectively* argue that sunrise program has been a success, when the data says otherwise?”
George Kirikos has been arguing about the New gTLD sunrise success with the ICANN community and the GNSO Working Group. In my opinion his views are 100% correct and his suggested procedure could save all …
Read More »Is TMview.com (purchased for $4,000) a spoofing website created by Michael Gleissner?
John Berryhill sent out a few tweets on August 11, 2017 warning people about tmview.com being a spoofing webpage. The intellectual property attorney believes that the fake web page is spoofing TMview that is the …
Read More »Rick Schwartz’s rules of domaining
Rick Schwartz sent out a tweet yesterday saying: “I NEVER buy a #domain asking question: Is this $1k domain worth $2k? I ask a completely different question & get different result!!” Of course I immediately …
Read More »Mike Mann: “the final [price] is always gut but I have all the data to be correct”
Mike Mann talked on Facebook how he goes about repricing 150,000 of his domain names. Prices for most of his domains are going down but prices for the best ones are going way up: “In …
Read More »Andrew Rosener has a 12% domain name sales turnaround every year
Andrew Rosener replied to a comment left by Mike Mann on Facebook revealing some details about his domain name investing business. Mike Mann said: “I took over the premium .Com industry again while everyone was …
Read More »GoDaddy auctioning and selling despicable domain names
I got a tip from a reader about an auction that GoDaddy is running for the domain name killchildren.com. I visited GoDaddy auctions only to find more domains like this: All 4 domains (.com, .net, …
Read More »A little common sense will not hurt you
I am getting my fair share of time wasting inquiries. Inquiries that usually makes me not want to even spend time replying with a simple “no”. Yesterday I got 3 offers for 3 different domain …
Read More »Now here is an idea Mike Mann had…
Here is an idea that Mike Mann had and shared on his Facebook profile. He wants portfolios of domains and a 75% commission in exchange of renewal costs, staff, overhead or servers, no risk of …
Read More »Namejet knows about auction shill bidding (now and in the past)
Namejet knows about auction shill bidding on their platform. Period. They knew about it now and they knew about it in the past. There has always been some shill bidding on all auction platforms. Yes, of …
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