Wow!!! This post started out completely different that what it turned out!!! So… Monte Cahn, Director / President of rightofthedot.com, announced the sale of the domains Kick.com and Cogent.com for 6 and 5 figures respectively. …
Read More »DAN now gives you the option to publish your domain sales
DAN announced today on Twitter that it is giving sellers the option to publish their domain name sales: “We have just introduced our revamped privacy policy for publishing domain sales. In your privacy settings, you …
Read More »Epik created a video with premium domains they have for sale
Epik created a video for 18 of the premium domains they have for sale in June 2020. They have also created some videos for 8 individual domains but I think this one makes more sense: …
Read More »ICANN69 to be held as virtual public meeting
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that the ICANN Board of Directors has made the decision that the ICANN69 Annual General Meeting (AGM), which was to be held in Hamburg, …
Read More ».Cars .Car and .Auto to be sold in a no reserve auction
.Cars .Car and .Auto to be sold in a no reserve auction at Innovative Auctions. Launched in 2015, .Cars .Car and .Auto, are a joint venture between XYZ Registry and UNR Corp. The 2 companies …
Read More ».UK domain name disputes stay flat for the past 10 years
Nominet, the .UK registry, released the 2019 annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) that handles .UK disputes. The total number of domain names that were subject to DRS …
Read More »“What trademark owners need to know to avoid reverse domain name hijacking”
You don’t see this very often. Actually I don’t think I have ever seen a brand protection agency produce a guide on what trademark owners need to know to avoid reverse domain name hijacking! Reverse …
Read More »The domain with the most bidders at Namejet is not going to auction
This was one of these moments where it suddenly hits you and your blood freezes… So I logged in to Namejet today, clicked on search, sorted all domains by most bids and then… I stood …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 4 domains for $96,808 in May
Mike Mann reported selling 4 domain names in May for a total of $96,808. Prices started at $11,920 and went up to $35,000. Mike Mann sold 4 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …
Read More »How I saved money using the GoDaddy Discount Domain Club and the silent fix!
The GoDaddy website sucks. Anyone that deals with GoDaddy on a daily basis knows it. It is full of bugs, inconsistencies, old and new systems contradicting, etc. On Saturday I complained about the crazy expensive …
Read More »Google introducing page experience as a search ranking factor
Google said that through both internal studies and industry research, users show they prefer sites with a great page experience. In recent years, Search has added a variety of user experience criteria, such as how …
Read More »GoDaddy ripping people off with .us domain names
.US domain names are some of the cheapest domain names to register and renew. Yet somehow GoDaddy, a US company, has decided that .us domains are a good choice so it can rip off customers …
Read More »Internet grows to 366.8 million domain names in Q1 2020
Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the first quarter of 2020 closed with 366.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 4.5 …
Read More »Lost a GoDaddy auction, then the winner defaulted. How do I find who the bidder was?
A few day ago I lost an auction for a domain name at Godaddy. I made a proxy bid early in the day the auction was ending as I was not going to be available …
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