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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 …

Sahar Sarid thinks that Frank Schilling pulling out of ‪#‎DomainingAMA amounts to a protest against free speech. What? Here is what Sahar Sarid wrote on Facebook today: I saw a post today that someone wondered …

Sahar Sarid announced on Saturday his new project: #DomainingAMA. He didn’t expect what would follow… I’m not ready, nor prepared, but are you ever? I’ll walk on water and fire to achieve what I set …

Mike Mann made a Facebook post talking about a new trend he is seeing lately: two word .Com domains sales seem to increase. This is not something new. 2-word domains have always been selling but …

For months or actually maybe for years I had been ignoring emails from China. These were either all written in Chinese or trying to buy my best domains for peanuts or most of the times …

Last week DN.com announced by sending an email that it will be closing for 3-4 days and their website went offline. Yesterday they announced by sending another email that they had some government issues and …

Donuts published a blog post titled “The Proof is in the Data – Not-Coms Are Superior To Legacy Domains“. During the first two months of 2016, not-coms made their Super Bowl debut and the highly-anticipated …