Earlier this morning, WordPress and the .blog registry announced they reached 100,000 registered domain names. They reached this milestone when the domain kitchenmagic.blog was registered. It has been eight months ago that .blog domains became …
Read More »Now here is an idea Mike Mann had…
Here is an idea that Mike Mann had and shared on his Facebook profile. He wants portfolios of domains and a 75% commission in exchange of renewal costs, staff, overhead or servers, no risk of …
Read More »Namejet knows about auction shill bidding (now and in the past)
Namejet knows about auction shill bidding on their platform. Period. They knew about it now and they knew about it in the past. There has always been some shill bidding on all auction platforms. Yes, of …
Read More »Chinese registrar suspends new domain registrations for .org, .asia, .cc and .tv extensions
Ename, a China based registrar, has suspended new domain name registration for .org, .asia, .cc and .tv extensions. The registrar will continue to support renewals, transfers and other functions related to these extensions. These 4 …
Read More »GoDaddy interviews Sumo’s growth & optimization specialist
GoDaddy published a very interesting video on YouTube on things like using video with a limited budget, the good and bad about live video, using free content to convert website visitors to subscribers, and more. GoDaddy’s …
Read More »Internet grows to 330.6 million domain name registrations in Q1 2017
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 330.6 …
Read More »MERGE! show in Orlando, Florida, from October 14 to 18th
MERGE! is an industry event that is an independent show designed to host and provide a shared access pass to groups of related events – all about a common focus: Using Domain Names, Digital Branding, …
Read More »Donuts and Rightside announce ICANN consent for the merger
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) and Donuts Inc. today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave Rightside and Donuts notice on July 15, 2017 of ICANN’s express consent to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (the “Transactions”) among …
Read More »Google moves the domain name at the top of search results
Google has moved the domain name at the top of search results. I think the change was made in the past 2-3 weeks. If the webpage in the results is not the homepage of the …
Read More »OnlineDomain.com, a domain blog 5 years later…
It has been 5 years since I started this blog in a hot summer in 2012. It has been a fun ride with ups and downs. Here are my all time stats: 1,127,824 views 481,966 visitors …
Read More »New gTLDs have lost 2.3 million domains in the past 8 weeks
New gTLDs have lost 2.3 million domain names in the past 8 weeks. There are now about 22 million new gtld domain registrations. According to Namestat.org there have been 4.3 million domain names removed from …
Read More »Radix premium domains report: $1,217,240 revenue, 67% premium renewal rate
Radix published its premium domains report for the 1st half of 2017. Here is the report: Radix crosses $1 MILLION in premium name revenue. 1,217,240 In Premium Revenue 727 Premium Domains Registered & Renewed New Premium …
Read More »Pheenix increases backorders for com/net to $59.99
Pheenix announced that it will be increasing pricing for Gold backorders to $59.99 for com/net. The change will be effective on July 15, 2017. There will also be increases for other domain extensions. This is the …
Read More »Proof that people use GoDaddy expired domain auctions as an appraisal and bait tool
Everybody knows that people are using the GoDaddy expired domain auctions as an appraisal tool and as a bait tool. They let they GoDaddy registered domain names expire, the domain name is auctioned at GoDaddy …
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