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Frank Schilling left a comment on a .realtor post at thedomains.com talking about what he thinks is the best New gTLD string related to real estate and property. Of course he thought the his company’s …

I had a guy offer me $1,000 for a domain. I asked for $3,000. He asked me if I would accept $2,000. I told him that if he can do $2,500 we had a deal. …

I got another stupid Network Solutions Certified Offer Service. This time for the domain name ELECTIONS.info and for the amount of $100. How can I refuse such an offer? Needless to say, my counteroffer was …

Chick-fil-A, the American fast food restaurant chain, bought 8 new .restaurant domain names costing thousands of dollars each. Waste of money, if you ask me. .Restaurant, a New gTLD launched by Donuts, is out of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs launched: .melbourne. Melbourne’s population is 4,347,955. .Melbourne got Related …

Minds + Machines and the registrar Hexonet mistakenly priced a lot of premium domains cheap, so those domains were sold at standard/low prices. Now they are asking thousands of dollars for premium renewals. Meanwhile a …

Archeo Domains, a Marchex company, released its 3rd Quarter 2014 newsletter that includes great advice for business owners about why and how a premium domain can boost their business. Archeo sold $1.6M worth of domain …

Minds + Machines and the registrar Hexonet mistakenly priced a lot of premium domains and those domains were sold at cheap standard prices. The problem affects domains registered in the past 2 months such as …

A new forum dedicated to New gTLDs was launched at gTLD.link. The new domain name forum was created by domainers Phil Harris and Chad Wright. The New gTLD domain forum was launched before 3 weeks and …

ICANN plans to release an authorization process by 1 December that no longer requires Registry operators to reserve all number/letter (2a), letter/number (a2), or number/number (22) New gTLD domain names at the second-level. This category …