The Verisign .com monopoly reported a huge operating margin that was 65.4 percent for the first quarter of 2019. Instead of being grateful for this gift that it is being given they are asking for .com …
Read More »My comment about price increases on Kevin Murphy’s post
Kevin Murphy wrote a blog post “ICA rallies the troops to defeat .org price hikes. It won’t work” that mentioned a few opinions that I don’t agree with. Kevin said that “the retail price of …
Read More »Rick Schwartz reveals domain name purchase prices from the 1990’s
Rick Schwartz revealed on Twitter some of his domain name purchase prices from the 1990’s. He started by saying that domain name acquisition cost has nothing to do with sales price, something that I completely …
Read More »GoDaddy domain auctions: The problems never end
So GoDaddy supposedly fixed the problem where domains would get renewed or transferred out after a GoDaddy auction had ended and paid for. But today I was going through my bank statement from March and …
Read More »Neustar and .Biz domains want no price caps too!
ICANN is now proposing lifting price cap provisions for .biz domains too. This came shortly after the proposals to lift price caps for .org and .info domains. Of course Neustar, the biz registry, would sure …
Read More »This Means War! ICANN proposes lifting price cap provisions on .org and .info domains!
This means war! ICANN proposes lifting price cap provisions .org and .info domains! This is the most serious matter that registrants have come up against ever. If these agreements are accepted by ICANN then VERISIGN …
Read More »I am renewing my best domain names for 5+ years
In the past year or so I have decided that whenever I make a sale I will use some of the money for renewals. I am not talking about the normal renewals that I usually …
Read More »Mike Mann shares his domain name pricing levels
Mike Mann shared today on social media the pricing levels he uses to price his domain names. I assume he uses similar levels on his domain name appraisal service. One thing we already knew even …
Read More »Sometimes resigning from a job is the best you can do
2 weeks ago I resigned from the Greek basketball team I had been working for the past 14 months. Yesterday was my last day (it was a Sunday game) and I already know I made …
Read More »Marksmen makes lowball offer using a GoDaddy domain appraisal
Marksmen, a brand protection agency, made a lowball offer for one of my domains using a GoDaddy domain name appraisal. Everybody in the domain name industry knows that all automated domain name appraisals are useless. …
Read More »How I reply to threats from companies that want to steal my domains
I got a message from a Spanish company trying to steal my domain. They used the contact form that I have on this domain name I own to send the message below. I have nothing …
Read More »Renew or drop? Using GoDaddy domain name appraisals!
To renew or not? The one question that comes up tens, hundreds or thousands of times each year for every domainer. Should you pay for the domain name renewal or drop the (bad) domain and …
Read More »Top 10 domain name articles of 2018 (Domain investors, Godaddy, Uniregistry, Oliver Hoger, Mugshots, Elon Musk)
These are the top 10 domain name articles from 2018. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions and a few crazy people that don’t belong in the domaining industry. Or any other …
Read More »Everything is fine here!
I got some emails and messages asking if everything was good with me because I didn’t make any posts for a couple of weeks. So what is up with me? Well, everything is fine here. …
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