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Registry operator Dot Scot Registry Limited announced the release of some of its reserved .SCOT domains from the Name Collision List on the 6th of January after which all names are in the general pool …

Check out my latest domain name renewal/drop report: November: 827 Domain Name Renewals And 119 Drops (12.6%) It seems that owners of high premium New gTLD domains are trying to sell them by hiding renewal …

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. I am a bit late on this report because of the holidays and NamesCon. So, in November I …

It seems that owners of high premium New gTLD domains are trying to sell them by hiding renewal cost? What do you think? New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Brussels, .Vlaanderen, .ForSale, .Band, .RIP, .Space Was …

I am finally home and trying to catch up. As much as I liked meeting all you at NamesCon I think I made a mistake staying in Vegas more days after the conference ended. Well, …

I noticed an auction at Flippa for the domain USA.Vacations that ended a few days back. High bid was $800 and the domain didn’t sell but what is quite interesting are the comments. It seems …

This week 3 New gTLD enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enter the landrush phase. 2 geo New gTLDs from Belgium enter general availability this week: .brussels …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD was out of EAP and into real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 14th of January …

Namejet released it’s December 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 102 (61 last month) domains for $557,335 ($235,705 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

In the past week 593 (1067 in the previous 3 weeks) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million ($2.6m in the previous 3 weeks). Only 198 (368 in the previous …

Today is my last day in Vegas. The Tropicana asked me for $239 for a 6pm late checkout. Really Tropicana? You want for 6 hours what I paid in the past 48 hours?  Terrible. Maybe …

The domain name ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com and accompanying website is being auctioned at Flippa. The website has gone viral and has already been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Time Magazine, Yahoo, USA Today, Slate, DailyMail, FastCompany, Mashable, and …

I woke up late yesterday in Las Vegas. I can still feel NamesCon on my body. I did some shopping therapy today. Now I think I am done with Vegas for a year. Was Hexonet.net …

It seems that the Hexonet retaiI website at Hexonet.net was hacked. Were domains stolen or not? I noticed a tweet by Hexonet registrar (1API) saying: “Security monitor uncovered a security issue with our public website. …