OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions
I won a domain at GoDaddy auction on the 1st of January 2021. I tried to pay for it. Here is all I tried so I could pay and failed: I tried to pay using …
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Donuts completes the Afilias acquisition
Donuts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. The announcement came after ICANN approved the change of control of Afilias. “Now under one corporate structure, the two companies will continue to …
Read More »Sahil Gupta tries to steal Spase .com again and fails miserably!
Sahil Gupta, this world class idiot, tried to steal the domain name Spase .com again and failed miserably! This time it was even worse. He filed the same UDRP complaint for the same domain name …
Read More »The NamesCon 2021 domain name auction is now live
The NamesCon domain name auction is now live at GoDaddy Auctions. You can use the drop down on the popular searches to navigate to the “NamesCon 2021 Auction” listings. At the time of writing there …
Read More »Last Brexit notice to .eu registrants and registrars
Last week EURid, the .eu registry, notified (for the second time and probably the last) by email all UK registrants and their registrars that as of 1 January 2021 UK registrants will no longer be …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $31,888 in November
Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in November for a total of $31,888. Reported prices started at $4,888 and went up to $27,000. All 2 domains were .com. The average reported domain …
Read More »R.I.P. Dietmar Stefitz
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 …
Read More »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 …
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Mike Mann says GoDaddy domain appraisals are a total scam and a racket
Mike Mann made a few posts on social media about the GoDaddy automated domain name appraisal tool, calling it a total scam and a racket. I can’t say I blame him. I have written numerous posts about this ridiculously badly made automated tool. Here is the latest post: GoDaddy appraisals …
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GoDaddy appraisals display comparable domain sales from 2004 (!!!)
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Domain name portfolio audit (in 8 steps)
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Dicker failed again to pay money owed as promised
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Greek banks think GoDaddy is a betting company!
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GoDaddy acquires Dan.com
Dan.com and Reza Sardeha announced today that “Dan & GoDaddy join forces”. If you ask me it feels like a sad day in domaining today. Hope I am wrong but previous GoDaddy acquisitions, like Uniregistry, didn’t go the way everyone was hoping. It feels like less competition, less innovation and …
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DAN adds domain categories and a hybrid PPC for sale page template
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Escrow.com partners with MicroAcquire
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Liquid market report Q1 2022: $16M in Escrow.com sales
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Dan improves domain portfolio management (and makes many other updates)
