Mike Mann shared on Facebook my article about the bad landrush phase that .Blog domains had last week and also shared his views on the New gTLDs in general: Read my lips gTLDs are D*E*A*D, …
Read More »Afilias will continue providing back-end registry services to .ORG domains
Public Interest Registry – the non-profit operator of the .org, .ngo, and .ong domains as well as four Internationalized Domain Names (.орг, .संगठन, .机构 and .组织机 构) – today announced that it will enter into …
Read More »8,049 .UK domains suspended because of criminal activity
Nominet today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2016. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is …
Read More »Domaining Europe conference goes to Berlin in May, 2017
Dietmar Stefitz, the Domaining Europe founder and event organizer, announced today that the 9th Domaining Europe Conference will take place from the 14th to 16th of May in Berlin. The event venue is going to …
Read More ».Blog domains had a bad landrush phase
.Blog domains completed landrush on Wednesday and the registry announced the results and they don’t look too good. The landrush resulted in 1000+ registered domains the 7 days of the landrush. Just 36 of these …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in October 2016: financial advice, front running, Adam Dicker, Facebook
These are the top domain name articles from October 2016. I believe this was one of the best months for this blog and all articles below deserve a read. The most popular articles were about financial …
Read More »Parking Crew is under DDOS Attack for the past week
Parking Crew, the popular domain name parking company, has been under DDOS Attack since last Friday. They managed to successfully filter the attack pretty quickly and parked pages were only affected for a couple of …
Read More »Trending keywords in .COM & .NET domain names (cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of October 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. There are no common keywords in the .com …
Read More »I am getting out of .XXX domain names after 0 sales in 5 years
I am dropping my remaining .XXX domain names and getting out of the extension. I registered about 30 .XXX domain names back in 2011 when the extension first launched. Most were 1 word domains related …
Read More »Efty offers more marketplace customization
One of Efty‘s much-requested feature was to add custom pages which allow for unique content. Efty has now made the first step with this by adding a custom “About Us” page under Settings > Efty Market that …
Read More »Rightside reports $4.4 million net loss for Q3 (Has 546,000 registered domains)
Rightside announced today financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016 reporting a net loss of $4.4 million for the 3rd quarter. Business Highlights Rightside has 40 gTLDs in its portfolio and ended …
Read More »The .Blog registry is not releasing ANY 1, 2 and 3 character domain names!
.Blog domain names are currently in the Landrush phase but it seems that thousands of domains have been reserved by the registry including ALL 1, 2 and 3 character domain names. Per ICANN (Internet Corporation …
Read More »Flippa reports 300 domains name sales from July, August and September
Flippa Domains’ third quarter of 2016 report features 300 domains that were sold for a total of $518,410. Chapter.com was the top selling domain name at $40,000. SMSMarketing.com got the second place spot with $20,000. …
Read More »Google begins mobile-first indexing, using mobile content to rank all search results
Google announced that it has began experimenting with mobile-first indexing to make results more useful as most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. If you have a responsive website or a dynamic …
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