Göran Marby, the new ICANN President and CEO, gave an interview to Brad White, ICANN director of communications. Göran Marby was the Director General at the Swedish Post & Telecom Agency in Stockholm, Sweden before …
Read More »WordPress Expects 250,000 .Blog Domain Name Registrations In 2016
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, paid over 19 million dollars for the .blog registry and will offer the .blog domain extensions through its subsidiary, Knock Knock, WHOIS There (KKWT), starting later this year. The …
Read More »Interview With Daniel Zhang Of Chinese Registrar Xinnet.com (video)
ChopChop Domains published a video interview with Daniel Zhang that has been running the Xinnet.com domain business unit for the last 10 years. Xinnet.com is a Chinese registrar in business for 23 years and is among …
Read More »WordPress To Operate .Blog New Top Level Domain Extension, Launching In November 2016
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced that it secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domain names. WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that Automattic is …
Read More »Rightside Reports A $5.1 Million Loss In Q1 2016 Financial Results
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. Total revenue increased 9% to $55.1 million compared to $50.5 million of Q1 2015. Net loss for Q1 2016 was …
Read More »Rightside Domain Name Premiums: Still A Complicated Affair
Drew MacPherson, Research Manager and head of the Premium Team at Rightside, tried to explain how Premium domains work at Rightside. He admitted that new extension registries have confused buyers either they are domain investors …
Read More »Nominet Makes Available A List Of All Registered .UK & .CO.UK Domains
Nominet is making the zone files for all of the domains they manage available to members for the first time. But that is not all, as the zone file will contain only active domain names. …
Read More »Rightside: Domain Names to Last You a Lifetime (video)
Rightside, the registry of new extensions like .news and .ninja among others, posted a new video on YouTube concentrating on niche domains that are dedicated to unique occasions: dates, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, kids, birthdays, new …
Read More »S.Club Sells For $37,984 At China Auction – .Club Sells 420 Premium Domains In April
.Club had the first ever dedicated auction for a Western domain extension on Alibaba’s Ali Auction platform (TaoBao) in China. Fifteen other registrars and some direct registry sales contributed to the total .club premium domain …
Read More »New Domain Appraisal Scam Using A Fake HostGator Email Address
There is a new domain name appraisal scam out and it is better than the last one I saw. It is a combined domain valuation and a “trademark infringement varification ” scam. The scammer first …
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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