One Heidi Powell, a trainer, is trying to steal the domain name HeidiPowell.com from another Heidi Powell that has had it and have been using it since 2005. You may have heard this story before. …
Read More »The .org registry (PIR) is pausing development of “UDRP for copyright”
The .org registry made a short announcement that it is pausing development of the new dispute policy that many are calling “UDRP for copyright”. Public Interest Registry (PIR) has been developing the policy (called ”Systemic …
Read More »The usual dilemma! What is the best birthday gift? A domain name or a Sonos system?
So here is the usual dilemma that everybody has. (or may be not!) What should you buy your girlfriend or boyfriend as a birthday gift? Should you buy them a domain name or a Sonos …
Read More ».Media domain name sells for $20,500
A .media domain name was sold for $20,500 by a domain investor in a private transaction. The domain was registered on April 1st, 2016 but this is no April fools’ day joke. Seller of the …
Read More »Mike Mann’s latest domain acquisitions & sales (football .co, VanGoghsEar .com)
Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from January 2017. January was a busier month. There were 14 reported domain sales by Mike Mann in January worth a total …
Read More »Afilias thinks 2017 will be the year of dotBrand New gTLDs
Roland LaPlante, CMO of Afilias, explains in a video the value of owning a dotBRAND domain name extension for marketing campaigns and user security. Afilias is the .info registry and also the registry of several new …
Read More »Verisign pays $5 million annually for the rights to operate the .TV registry
Verisign pays $5 million annually to the Government of Tuvalu to be the sole registry operator of .TV. Verisign has the rights to sell .TV domain names up to December 31, 2021 that its contract …
Read More »The new Mike Mann premium domain brokerage (more details)
More details about the new Mike Mann premium .com domain name brokerage are coming out. Mike Mann made an announcement that he plans to allow people to sell their domain names on his domain name …
Read More »Video Documentary: “Selling Domain Names in China”
A glimpse of life on the road in China for those in the domain name industry. Follow key executives from ChopChop.Domains‘s parent company, TLD Registry, Ltd. (and their marketing partners from .CLUB) as they spread …
Read More ».EU has 3.76 million domains (renewal rate is 79% & other interesting statistics)
.EU published its Q4 2016 Progress Report that measures some interesting findings about the developments of the extension and the registrar community. During Q4 2016, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 32 655 domain …
Read More »NamesCon extended auction results: 144 domains sold out of 359
The NamesCon extended auction ended on Namejet last week featuring the domain names that didn’t sell on the NamesCon 2017 live auction. Getting all the results was not easy to do… NameJet and RightOfTheDot partnered …
Read More ».ink domains get Chinese MIIT approval
On February 6th, Top Level Design’s .ink received the official approval by China’s MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology). This is the 6th new gTLD in the Latin alphabet approved for sale in mainland …
Read More »GoDaddy’s revenue went up 15% to $1.8 billion in 2016
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported complete financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2016. “GoDaddy’s full year 2016 results were strong on all fronts, with revenue up 15% to $1.8 billion and …
Read More »Mike Mann plans to allow people to sell domains on DomainMarket.com
Mike Mann made an announcement that few people were expecting. Mike Mann plans to allow people to sell their domain names next to his on his domain name aftermarket at DomainMarket.com. Of course he wants …
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