ICANN was ready to approve the .org transfer on April 16 but the California Attorney General ruined their party. ICANN, ISOC, PIR and NoEthos Capital were very close to getting their corrupted plan completed but …
Read More »California Attorney General slams ICANN, ISOC and PIR (CAG urges ICANN to reject .ORG transfer)
California Attorney General sent a letter on April 15th urging ICANN to reject the transfer of control over the .ORG registry to Ethos Capital. In his letter the California Attorney General slams ICANN, ISOC and …
Read More »Sometimes it is hard to believe it!
Sometimes I get so blindsided by an email that I don’t even know where to begin writing a post. I got an email through the contact form on this blog from a guy in the …
Read More »Pay your fucking bills!
I see a lot of people lately that are looking for an excuse to not pay their bills on time. (or ever?) And I am not talking about people that have lost their jobs or …
Read More »Adjusting your business to overcome the Coronavirus pandemic
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected almost everyone in the world one way or another. A friend send me an email telling he is in self-quarantine, he can’t practice his main profession and is using this …
Read More »Alarming Coronavirus messages in domain inquiries
I have put up a contact form on a lot of my domains and I get quite a few odd requests on a variety of subjects instead of valid domain name inquiries. Most of the …
Read More »No Ethos Capital tries to strengthen the PIC and .ORG Stewardship Council
No Ethos Capital announces additional steps trying to strengthen the Public Interest Commitment (PIC) and .ORG Stewardship Council. All these additional steps is just a smokescreen trying to persuade some people that don’t yet know …
Read More »Anyone that buys a domain and tries to sell it is not a domainer
There has been a lot of talk about whether it is ethical to purchase coronavirus related domains. Well, it all depends on what kind of domains you buy AND what you do with them. I …
Read More »Will you be able to pay for domain name renewals?
As we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic the next couple of months will be difficult for everyone worldwide. It will be especially difficult for people that don’t have a steady income and/or …
Read More »Saying domain prices are inflated is stupid…
Anyone that says that domain prices were/are inflated is stupid. Anyone that says it today, that is. Of course there are people that always say that domain name prices are going up or people that …
Read More »Ethos Capital tries to save the .org deal
Ethos Capital senses that ICANN will deny their sweet .org acquisition deal and starts making promises left and right. Or they just made a deal with ICANN to makes these promises so that ICANN approves …
Read More »My rough estimate of the Uniregistry acquisition price
After the announcement of the Uniregistry acquisition by GoDaddy some people commented that the acquisition price would be around $50m to $100m. I don’t think the price was near this level. Here is my (extremely) …
Read More »Opposing the .com price increase
Please act now. The comment period for the proposed price increases of .com closes tomorrow Friday, February 14, 2020. I could have written a lot more about this as I wrote about .org but I …
Read More »I have bought no domains this year!
I have bought no domains this year. This is for sure my biggest purchase drought since I started buying domain names in 2002. I have not been extremely active in expired auctions lately but I …
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