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This week I will hit the road again. This time going to the Netherlands for 2 conferences in a row. I will arrive at Amsterdam on the 25th of May. On May 26 & 27 …

Drew MacPherson, Research Manager and head of the Premium Team at Rightside, tried to explain how Premium domains work at Rightside. He admitted that new extension registries have confused buyers either they are domain investors …

Buyers like to think that a domain name is valued according to what they want to do with it,  or according to what they can offer that many times is nothing at all. I get …

OnlineDomain.com reached another milestone and I didn’t even notice it. This post that was published last week, “Greek Seller Contacts Frank Schilling To Sell Him A .MOM Domain 21 Hours After General Availability”, was post …

Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from the last month or so. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more than 250,000 premium domain names for …

I was checking whois on the domain name 1.xyz, that sold for $182,971, while researching for this article questioning some of the high value .xyz domain sales. I discovered by accident that the XYZ registry …

I got an inquiry from a Hong Kong company about a New gTLD domain name I own. My domain name is an exact left.right match of their generic 2-word company name. They are currently using …

Frank Schilling and his company NAME ADMINISTRATION INC. (BVI) have once again moved their domain names to new nameservers that reside on a New gTLD: .link. Since the end of March 2016 all of Frank’s …

Sorry to say this but most companies don’t know what to do with domain names. I am not exaggerating. They simply don’t know what they can do with them. I am not only talking about …

A couple of days back I got an inquiry on a 2-word .com on DomainNameSales.com. It was obvious that the inquiry came from a PR firm as the email address used was from a domain …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .Club, wrote an article on CircleID titled: “Usage Trumps Registrations: Why Past TLDs Failed and Why Many Will Follow in Their Path“. Colin makes some very interesting points: We saw highly …

Are all .xyz domain name sales real? Over the weekend some articles and comments came out saying that a lot of the .xyz sales are just publicity stunts. The truth is that .xyz does not …

Sahar Sarid announced on his Facebook account that his new #‎DomainingAMA project is dead before it even started. #‎DomainingAMA‬ is dead, I’m calling it off. Bullies win, the industry loses. Life goes on. He also …

Rightside made an important comment regarding some questions there have been lately regarding the renewal pricing of New gTLDs. There have been some accusations that some New gTLD registries are making domain name renewal rate …