Afnic, the .fr ccTLD registry, produced its 2015 annual report. Afnic operates both the .fr ccTLD and 13 New gTLDs. Afnic’s main achievements and commitments in 2015 Finalization of the opening of the registration of …
Read More »Chinese Domaining Masterclass Concludes With Numbers 0 And 10
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the last installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous 9 installments: the number 7 …
Read More »Donuts Receives The First 6 Infringing Domain Names by MPAA
In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …
Read More »Report: 95% Of People Know .COM, 52% Know Least 1 New gTLD, 95% Trust ccTLDs
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured …
Read More »Learning the Basics of Buying Expired GoDaddy Domains (video)
Heather Dopson, a community builder at GoDaddy, and Joe Styler, the aftermarket product manager at GoDaddy, chatted about the basics of buying Expired Domains on GoDaddy’s auctions. They talked about the timeline of when and …
Read More »Breaking: ICANN & Verisign Propose 6-Year Extension Of The .COM Registry Agreement Until 2024
ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement …
Read More »Some Domains You Can Buy Cheap On The Undeveloped.com New gTLD Auction
The Undeveloped.com New gTLD auction is underway with just 7 days left so the Undeveloped team shared the most undervalued names that they currently have in auction. The auction runs from the 20th June to …
Read More »Sedo: Number Of Sold Domains Is On A Steady Decline Since 2010 (Down 38,7%)
I wrote an article 2 days ago called “Is Sedo Slowly Dying?” and Andrew Allemann from DomainNameWire.com added more stats on this article. So here are a few more numbers I found about the amount …
Read More »Google Domains Offers A Free Domain Name
Google Domains wants to grow its domain name business so they are now offering one free domain name (.com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info, a $12 value) to each of their customers. The free domain …
Read More »How DigitalTown Will Use 11,000 .City Domains (DT Bought 400 .City Domains In The Aftermarket)
Robert Monster, CEO of DigitalTown.com and Epik.com, made a lengthy comment (and then a few more smaller comments) on the article I wrote about the announcement of the new DigitalTown platform involving 11,000 .City domain …
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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