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Frank Schilling may have stopped blogging since 2014 but he hasn’t stopped giving domain name advice online. Not only has he stopped blogging but his blog at SevenMile.com is actually broken and does not even …

I got an inquiry the day after Christmas about one of my .com domains: WhosDead.com. I guess this inquiry had something to do with the whole 2016 music death curse that was affirmed by George …

I have noticed a small trend in 2016 where people are trying to auction off and practically unload New gTLD domains with expensive renewals. It was easier to notice in short domains namely 1-letter domains. …

Mike Mann made 2 comments that combined offered a glimpse at his domain name business: how much he is grossing per year and how many domains he is selling. Mike Mann is the owner of …

Mike Mann said on Facebook that the average premium domain sale prices have doubled in the last 18 months. Appraised values have doubled as well. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more …

The new ICANN policy on domain WHOIS changes is active and the worst thing is that not even registrars and their support team know enough about the changes yet. I wrote about the emails I …

West.cn is celebrating the .VIP government approval in China by offering free .vip domain name transfers. But the offer is good only for certain .vip domains that are considered Chinese premiums: 1-3 letter domains 1-3 …

It seems that the .KIWI registry is using a new technique to get more domain name registrations. Digital fear along with some old fashioned domain name inflated registration numbers. Umbrellar.nz, a New Zealand hosting and …

December 1st was the first day that the new ICANN policy on domain name WHOIS changes was introduced and crazy things are happening already. According to the new policy, a WHOIS change to the registrant …

.Blog domain names entered general availability today, November 21. I registered 15 Blog domain names today and I may buy some more but these are not exactly what you might think. I bought 15 KeywordBlog.com …

The .blog registry made a blog post today trying to explain what is going on with all the reserved domains and the .blog landrush. In short they explained that they did what they did simply …

I got an inquiry for my domain name D-D.com which I bought in 2013 on a Namejet auction. The inquiry came from someone in Spain that has a double last name separated by a hyphen …

Mike Mann shared on Facebook my article about the bad landrush phase that .Blog domains had last week and also shared his views on the New gTLDs in general: Read my lips gTLDs are D*E*A*D, …

I am dropping my remaining .XXX domain names and getting out of the extension. I registered about 30 .XXX domain names back in 2011 when the extension first launched. Most were 1 word domains related …