Rightside published a list of their New gTLD domain name sales. They released a full list of every five- and six-figure direct Platinum domain sale they are allowed to publish. Just a few of these …
Read More ».NYC to auction 26 tech domains in May (Cloud .nyc, Web .nyc, Startup .nyc)
Auctions.nyc and the City of New York will have their 3rd auction of premium .NYC domains. This time 26 tech related domain names like Cloud.nyc, Web.nyc and Startup.nyc will be auctioned. It is not yet …
Read More »Too little, too late: Uniregistry will offer price protection on 9 domain extensions
Uniregistry issued a press release today that was pretty difficult to understand until you reached the end of it. And even then it is pretty cryptic. In essence they mumbled that grandfathering existing registrations was …
Read More ».VIP gets 200,000 new domain registrations worth $1.3 million
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported today orders for over 200,000 new registrations in its .vip top-level domain valued at US$1.3 million. The orders comprise both standard names and premium names, including 61 …
Read More »Inside the offices of GoDaddy (videos)
GoDaddy made 3 videos that give everyone a sneak peak inside the offices of GoDaddy and listen to the people that work in the biggest domain name registrar in the world. The videos were shot …
Read More »“Preferably call me in the afternoon and speak Spanish.”
I got one of those usual messages on one of my domains from someone that has clearly the wrong website and complains. But this time the response got me laughing… So the inquiry I got …
Read More »Escrow.com offers chat support through the KYC verification process
Escrow.com now offers chat support while customers are commencing the KYC verification process. Escrow said that its aim is to offer as much support as possible. A few months back, Escrow.com started asking for all …
Read More »GoDaddy acquires Sucuri
GoDaddy Inc (NYSE: GDDY), announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase Sucuri, a leading provider of website security products and services. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Sucuri is a security …
Read More »Mike Mann’s crowdpricing domain appraisal system will have 4 appraisers
Mike Mann shared some details on how the upcoming DomainMarket.com appraisal system will work. He calls it a “crowdpricing domain appraisal system”. About 10 days ago he announced that the appraisal system would be using …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in February 2017: Rick Schwartz, GoDaddy, Mike Mann, .Media
These are the top domain name articles from February 2017. Better late than never! The most popular articles were Rick Schwartz talking about domain investors, selling domains on GoDaddy, the new Mike Mann domain name brokerage and …
Read More »My domain name renewals and drops in January and February 2017
This is the review of the my domain name renewals and drops in the months of January and February 2017. I don’t liquidate my domains by selling them for $5 or $10. That takes too …
Read More »Casino.Online sells for $201,250 by Radix (Donuts must be very happy!)
The domain name Casino.Online was sold for $201,250 at Sedo. The seller was non other than the .online domain name registry, Radix. This sale is now the highest New gTLD reported domain name sale. You …
Read More »MMX aims for 1 million .VIP domains, will release .Boston in September & hires Victor Pitts
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported its operational progress across a number of business activities since its trading update announced earlier this year in January 2017. MMX is targeting global registrations of .vip to surpass one million by the …
Read More »Epik hires Joseph Peterson as director of operations
Epik Holdings, Inc., announced that it has hired Joseph Peterson as director of operations. This is something that came as a pleasant surprise! Epik is a company that is truly investing in the domain name …
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