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Donuts offered some insights about their premium domain names. The only insight I got, and that comes as no surprise, is that people have been and are (always) registering bad domains. Donuts is generally characterizing …

It has been 6 years since I started this blog in 2012. What made me start was reading all the other blogs for a few years before 2012. I had also more or less left …

Art Malkov takes a look at .io domains through the lense of startups and the crypto market: .Io history, who is using .io domains and why. After I spent years in the domain space, often …

Matt Gill of Developed.nyc shared his experience selling .NYC domain names since October 2014. First of all I would like to say that .nyc has smaller investor competition as you can only register this New …

I vote for this guy to be new domainer of the day. Or maybe of the month! This summarizes all the misconceptions that people have about domain names and all the mistakes you can make …

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the locations for the 2020 ICANN Public Meetings. Cancun, Mexico, has been selected as the location in the Latin America and Caribbean region to host ICANN’s …

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 …

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: …

.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” …

Friday, May 25, 2018 was the start of a new, shittier, internet. Welcome to domaining 2.0. The version where you don’t have any domain name ownership records! Yes, that is right. No one knows from …

Some domain name investors are being idiots. Plain and simple idiots. Well, most are probably idiots, including myself, but regarding this issue below maybe not so many. I hope… So I sent out an email …

These are some of the words or phrases that you don’t want to hear from a potential buyer of your domain name. This goes beyond the usual cheapskate pretending to be a student, people making …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the ICANN61 By the Numbers report, which includes technical, demographic, and attendance statistics. Why did ICANN wasted so many hours to create this 54-page report …

I have been wondering in the past few weeks where the domain name investors have gone. It seems that a significant percentage has left the industry. This happened in the end of 2017 so it …