Owner information has stopped appearing on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois and people have started complaining about this change. It all started in April 2017 when Afilias won the contract to run the …
Read More »Efty’s landing pages tweaks lead to 30%+ more domain name inquiries
Last week I wrote how Efty made it’s domain name selling landing pages a lot faster. Efty sent out a tweet today saying that August was an all time high month for Efty in terms of …
Read More »Tucows to discontinue .au domain name registrations for all Chinese resellers
Tucows’s reseller platform OpenSRS will no longer be able to provide .au domain name registrations to any reseller that is based in China. This follows a formal direction Tucows was given by auDA, the registry …
Read More ».Miami produces 2 new promotional videos
.Miami has produced a couple of very interesting videos in order to promote this regional domain name extension. .Miami launched in October 2015 but its numbers are far from impressive. The New gTLD peaked at …
Read More »CentralNIC acquires Slovakia’s Top-Level Domain .SK for about €26 million but Slovaks are not happy
CentralNIC has agreed to acquire SK-NIC, A.S., manager of Slovakia’s Top-Level Domain (ccTLD), .sk but Slovaks are not too happy with this. The Board of CentralNic announced that it has agreed to acquire the business …
Read More »Taylor Swift fails to register Reputation tour domains and fans get pranked
Taylor Swift’s new album called Reputation is coming out on November 10. But is Taylor Swift going to have a Reputation (or Reputaytion) tour? Fans are wondering but a few domain name registration by her …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 13 domains in July for $214,716 (10 sales for 5 figures)
Mike Mann reported selling 13 domain names in July for a total of $214,716. Mike had 10 5-figure sales and another 2 sales very close to $10k. All 13 of the sold domains were .com. …
Read More »Efty has made its domain name landing pages a lot faster
Efty’s co-founder Lionel Petitiaux talked about how scaling the platform was the hardest thing to do. “Building a product that people love isn’t easy, there’s no doubt about that. It takes most start-ups a long …
Read More »DropCatch has a new domain marketplace for sellers – Here is how to get in
DropCatch recently launched a new marketplace for private domain name sellers. The Marketplace for Sellers launched by invitation only but there are about 1,000 private seller domain auctions ending in the next 2 weeks. Most …
Read More »The 2nd “Brands and Domains” conference is coming up on October 2-3
The 2nd “Brands and Domains” conference will be held on October 2-3 at The Hague, Netherlands. The objectives of the conference according to the organizers are: Inform brands about the existing use cases so that …
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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