Opinions

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It has been 5 years since I started this blog in a hot summer in 2012. It has been a fun ride with ups and downs. Here are my all time stats: 1,127,824 views 481,966 visitors …

Everybody knows that people are using the GoDaddy expired domain auctions as an appraisal tool and as a bait tool. They let they GoDaddy registered domain names expire, the domain name is auctioned at GoDaddy …

Mike Mann is sharing his domain sales all the time but he doesn’t say the venue these domain names are sold. It appears that many of his sales are occurring on the GoDaddy platform. When I …

In the past few weeks I have read some straight up bullshit statements from people in the domain name industry that I really enjoy their writing and are certainly knowledgeable in regards to domain names …