Opinions

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …