Rick Schwartz has been tweeting non-stop lately sharing his view of the domain name industry and giving domain name advice to whoever that wants to listen. On Sunday Rick made the following tweet: “If you …
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Potential buyer tweets about domain name squatting
I got an inquiry on a 1-word .com. It is kinda of scifi, science, brandable and dictionary all mixed together word. Before I had a chance to reply to the inquiry, and I know that …
Read More »10 things I examine when deciding what domains to renew and what to drop
These are the 10 things I examine when deciding what domain names to renew and what domain names to drop. I am always reevaluating at renewal time and dropping domain names. This takes time but …
Read More »Rick Schwartz values his domain name portfolio at over $500 million dollars
Rick Schwartz, aka the “Domain King”, made a tweet describing his domain name portfolio and how he values his 7,000 domain names. “I own 7000 #Domains 750-1000 of them valued over $100k. 150-200 valued over …
Read More »Beware of domain name auction bids at exactly the reserve price at Namejet
I was going through the Namejet domain name auctions when I spotted the domain name che.biz. I sold this domain at Sedo in March 2015 for 1,180 Euro. So of course I was interested to …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in March 2017: Frank Schilling & the Uniregistry disaster, Mike Mann, Epik
These are the top domain name articles from March 2017. March was the best month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views in the past 2 years. Also almost 500 comments were made by readers. The most …
Read More »“Preferably call me in the afternoon and speak Spanish.”
I got one of those usual messages on one of my domains from someone that has clearly the wrong website and complains. But this time the response got me laughing… So the inquiry I got …
Read More »Mike Mann’s crowdpricing domain appraisal system will have 4 appraisers
Mike Mann shared some details on how the upcoming DomainMarket.com appraisal system will work. He calls it a “crowdpricing domain appraisal system”. About 10 days ago he announced that the appraisal system would be using …
Read More »My domain name renewals and drops in January and February 2017
This is the review of the my domain name renewals and drops in the months of January and February 2017. I don’t liquidate my domains by selling them for $5 or $10. That takes too …
Read More »The Uniregistry disaster continues: registrar increases domain retail prices by 62% to 75%
The Uniregistry disaster continues as people are jumping ship as both registry AND now registrar domain name prices are increasing. Uniregistry registrar sent out an email last week to inform current owners of the New …
Read More »Developed.NYC highlights the growing NYC domainscape
(This is a guest post from Matt Gill, owner of Developed.NYC.) When I first came to New York one thing I noticed was how people love to wear the name of their city on their …
Read More »Most paranoid reply to a domain quote!
I got an inquiry for a .com domain name and as usual I send my quote to the interested party from Ohio. What I received was the most paranoid reply and it was not because …
Read More »Frank Schilling just killed the New gTLD domain name program (Warning!)
Frank Schilling, owner of Uniregistry, just nailed the first nail on the New gTLD coffin. I wonder how the other registries are feeling about this? Yes, I am angry once again even though this price …
Read More »My favorite new domain extensions (562 domains in 82 extensions)
Many readers ask me what my favorite new extension is. There is not a definite answer as I strongly believe in good left-right combinations and not so much in individual extensions although it is clear …
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