George Nagy replaced Rob Monster as the Digital Town CEO. The change was made last Friday, September 14. Rob Monster stepped down as CEO, and also off of the Board of Directors of Digital Town. …
Read More »MMX is running a New gTLD domain hack auction
MMX is running a domain hack auction that will overlap with the MERGE conference. Some domains, like e.g. channel.surf, I would personally not categorize as hacks. The 7-day public auctions are on Namejet. There are …
Read More »The Forum adds some FAQs to help domain name disputes (UDRP and URS) after GDPR
The Forum (previously known as the National Arbitration Forum), one of the five ICANN approved domain name dispute resolution service providers, announced today that is has added a few new FAQs regarding GDPR and other …
Read More »Mike Mann gets $90k for the domain DollarCity.com following a UDRP
Mike Mann announced that he sold the domain name DollarCity.com for $90,000. But there is more to the story. He actually sold the domain name to the company that filed a UDRP complaint for this …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: fan, hotels, grid, grad, email, apps
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of August 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »Donuts to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners
Donuts Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Abry Partners, a leading private equity firm. Terms and timing of the agreement were not disclosed. Donuts holds the world’s …
Read More ».GLOBAL domains become 4 years old (infographic)
4 years have passed since .GLOBAL was launched. Ever since the launch, .GLOBAL has seen steady growth rate. It is currently standing at about 43,000 registered domain names. You can see all domain name sales from the .global registry …
Read More »Afilias moves to the US
Afilias announced today that it has formally established a new corporate parent entity, Afilias, Inc. of Delaware, USA. Afilias plc of Ireland is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias, Inc. Afilias further announced the …
Read More »“Your email address says a lot about your taste in domains.”
So what else is new? I got an inquiry from a clueless guy from Australia that wanted to buy my one word .us domain name. Of course this was an upgrade if you consider that …
Read More ».tokyo has reached 100,000 domain name registrations
GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business …
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Google new spam policy: Expired domain abuse
Google announced the March 2024 core update that they claim is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find useful. They also shared that Google has new spam policies to better handle …
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Buyer of Cofounders .com shares his thought process
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Ladies and gentlemen this is Rick Schwartz
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7 things Jordan Fried learned about domains (Owner of NFT.com and PuertoRico.com)
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Mike Mann says GoDaddy domain appraisals are a total scam and a racket
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Upcoming changes to Dan.com
GoDaddy and DAN want to move towards a simplified Aftermarket experience so they are announcing three upcoming changes to Dan.com. 1. Payout Currency Selection Starting on July 5th, you can choose a preferred payout currency in your payout settings. This enables payouts in either US Dollars (USD), Great British Pounds …
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Dan.com landers are now available on Afternic
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DAN: Import Lease to Own (LTO) transactions with a 10% commission
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7 things Jordan Fried learned about domains (Owner of NFT.com and PuertoRico.com)
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Liquid market report Q4 2022: $11.4M in Escrow.com sales