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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 …

There was a report 2 weeks ago that the domain name 2.tv was sold for about $100,000 USD. Raymond Hackney wrote that the domain was owned by Michael Berkens before he sold his portfolio to …

I have been debating for 4 days if I like Braden Pollock’s post “Why I Invested Six Figures in .WS Domain Names” or not. I read the post and all the comments, including the crazy …

I run a test counting all domain name inquiries in a month to see what TLDs are getting the most inquiries compared to the percentage that each TLD represents in my domain portfolio. I only …

I got an inquiry and as usual I submitted my quote. It was an 8 letter .com for $25,000. What I got back was another crazy response from someone not familiar with domain names or …

There was a press release today by Minds + Machines announcing that Antony Van Couvering is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr Van Couvering was removed from office with immediate effect …