OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions
I was very sad to hear on Friday the passing of Dietmar Stefitz. Dietmar Stefitz was among many other things the founder of Domaining Europe. (Later sold to NamesCon/GoDaddy and became NamesCon Europe.) I went …
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MediaOptions partners with DAN.COM for domain brokerage
MediaOptions today announced a partnership with DAN.COM, the blockchain-powered Domain Automation Network, to provide brokerage services to customers listing domains on the DAN.COM platform. The partnership combines the DAN.COM platform with MediaOptions’ domain brokerage services …
Read More »Over 22,000 .UK domains were suspended in the past 12 months
Responsible for running and keeping the .UK internet infrastructure secure, Nominet has published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2020. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or …
Read More »Sahil Gupta files the same complaint! (Also tweets to NASA about nasa(.)org!)
Someone many years ago said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”. Well, it is official! Sahil Gupta, our favorite reserve domain name hijacker …
Read More »Founder of MetaLab regrets not paying $17,000 for the .com in 2009
Andrew Wilkinson, the founder of MetaLab in 2006, said that he has regretted not paying $17,000 for metalab.com in 2009. 11 years later and he now owns the domain name. This is what he shared …
Read More »WIPO reaches 50,000 UDRP cases since 1999 and has an 11% increase in 2020
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has registered its 50,000th “cybersquatting” case after almost 21 years. WIPO had its first UDRP case in December 1999. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is at …
Read More »Q3 2020 continued with high rates of new domains
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q3/2020 has been published and shows that Q3 2020 has seen a continuation of high rates of new domain creations as well as a slight decrease in deletes. Furthermore, for …
Read More »Internet grows to 370.7 million domains at the end of Q3 2020
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.2 percent, compared …
Read More »Nominet and London police add new landing pages for suspended domains
Nominet today introduces law enforcement landing pages for domains suspended due to criminal activity to provide information for those who may have been affected by activity related to the domain name. In collaboration with the City of London’s …
Read More »GoDaddy employees used in website attacks
Krebs on Security wrote about how GoDaddy employees were used in website attacks. “Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams …
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Rick Schwartz’s 10 lessons in domaining
Rick Schwartz has been tweeting non-stop in the past few days providing very important tips and lessons about domain names. Here are Rick Schwartz’s 10 lessons in domaining so far: Lesson 1: If you give a price, YOU LOSE!! Lesson 2: If you give a counter-offer just cuz they made …
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GoDaddy fail
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Sahil Gupta tries to steal Spase .com again and fails miserably!
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R.I.P. Dietmar Stefitz
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.ORG was “saved”. Now get ready for some huge price increases!
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Liquid domains report: $11M+ in Escrow(.)com domain sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 17th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the fair value of such …
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DAN 2.0 is coming soon with a new domain registrar
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MediaOptions partners with DAN.COM for domain brokerage
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Escrow Q3 2020 report: domain transactions and median prices are up
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Escrow.com domain name transactions bounced back in Q3 2020
