Opinions

Göran Marby, President and CEO of ICANN, seems to pretend that he doesn’t understand how much more money than it should ICANN is spending every year. He published a blog post called “Budget Discussions at …

Some people think they somehow deserve a domain name so they try to acquire it using baseless and empty legal threats and/or subtle indirect threats. I received an inquiry for a 2-word .com 2 weeks …

In February the most popular articles were about DigitalTown, Mike Mann, domain name value, domain appraisals, .blog, a new domain name organization, GoDaddy and some other subjects. See here the Top 5 domain name articles …

I remember it very vividly. I wanted to buy a domain name that was in an auction in 2014. I totally forgot to bid for the domain name and I was bummed. The domain name …

Another clueless “buyer” has arrived. What else is new? He asked if I was selling one of my domain names and what the price was. I replied with a $9,500 quote. All good this far… …

In January the most popular articles were about Topcoin, GoDaddy violating ICANN rules AND having no mobile APP, CryptoWorld.com selling for $195,000, New gTLDs, Home.Loans selling for $500,000 and some other subjects. About 220 comments …

These are the top 5 domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions and few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a …

These are the top domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions and few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a busy …

These are the top domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions ana few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a busy …

December was a slower month but still had some important articles. The most popular articles were about Mike Mann moving his domains to GoDaddy, brokers, the GoDaddy valuation tool, DropCatch, Domaining.com and some other subjects. …

Topcoin conversion and sale round started yesterday Tuesday 1/16/18. Topcoin is distributing 1 billion tokens in a Token Distribution Event (“TDE”) scheduled to run from December 1st, 2017 until March 1st of 2018. Existing Topcoin …

GoDaddy has been blocking whois access at Port 43 for years… It returns the date related information of each domain name, nameserver info and the registrant name. It has been blocking address, telephone and email …

Twice in the past month I had 2 buyers change the terms of the domain name transaction after we had agreed and I had setup the escrow transaction. In these 2 cases both changed their …

I have been really worried lately with the current state of domain name brokers. You may have read how “I don’t like brokers”. The problem is that most of the brokers know very little about …