You may have noticed that the CENTR website was down between Friday 1st November and Wednesday 6 November. CENTR stands for the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR). What Happened We discovered on …
Read More »ICA asks ICANN to stop the .Org registry sale
ICA calls for ICANN to withhold approval of purported .Org registry sale. The original justification for awarding the .Org registry contract to ISOC was its public interest focus and commitments. If ISOC is no longer …
Read More »CentralNic acquires Team Internet (ParkingCrew and TONIC)
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced it has signed a conditional agreement to acquire the entire share capital of web services provider, Team Internet AG, Germany. Team Internet consists of two products: ParkingCrew that offers …
Read More »Oliver Hoger still owes me the attorney fees
Oliver Hoger still owes me the attorney fees after 1 year since he lost in the Greek courts. If you don’t know what happened then please read these 3 articles: Namejet domain name auction front …
Read More »Screwed: .ORG gets sold to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital
I am mad so all I can say today is that we got screwed as expected. .ORG just got sold to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital. Prepare for the $200 per year .org …
Read More »Rick Schwartz creates 1st domain name video animation
Rick Schwartz just posted on YouTube the 1st domain name video animation he has created. More will follow. “What I see, you may also want to see. My vision of the importance of a great …
Read More »GoDaddy revenue is up 11.9%, domain revenue is up 11.6%
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. “GoDaddy sits in a privileged position relative to a massive opportunity, strengthened by our differentiation in guidance, seamlessly intuitive experiences, and …
Read More »Tucows Q3 report: revenue goes up, profit goes down
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Financial Results Net revenue for the third quarter of 2019 increased 6% to …
Read More »Buyer psychology: similar offers for different domains
In the past couple of days I have received 3 similar offers for 3 completely different types of domains and extensions. All 3 offers were for $10k but the domains and my asking prices are …
Read More »ICANN denies reconsideration requests by Namecheap and EFF
Namecheap Inc. filed a reconsideration request (Request 19-2) challenging ICANN organization’s 2019 renewal of the Registry Agreements (RAs) with Public Interest Registry (PIR) and Afilias Limited (Afilias) for the .ORG and .INFO generic top-level domains …
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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