ICANN pretends to care Göran Marby, ICANN President & CEO and Maarten Botterman, ICANN Board Chair issued an update about .org yesterday saying that: “According to the .ORG Registry Agreement and our processes for reviewing …
Read More »NamesCon Global 2020 agenda
The agenda for NamesCon Global 2020 has been announced. The Domain Economic Forum takes place from January 29 to February 1 at Austin, Texas. This is the early version of the agenda, so there are …
Read More »NamesCon domain auction moves to GoDaddy and Proxibid
At last some change in the NamesCon Global domain auction as the action moves from Namejet to GoDaddy. The new platform is of course GoDaddy Auctions with its pros and cons. The auction page is …
Read More »Let’s sue ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doesn’t care about the thousands of comments, tweets, articles, petitions and opinions. Submitting comments and signing petitions achieves nothing. Like nothing was achieved by the 3,200 …
Read More »GoDaddy: Releasing outbound domain transfers is not working
We all know that GoDaddy has a failing system with hundreds of bugs lurking around but these random problems are really scary. So in the past few months releasing domain name outbound transfers is not …
Read More »Now that ParkingCrew is sold I am looking for a new domain parking company
Now that ParkingCrew is sold to CentralNic I am looking for a new domain parking company. I am looking for a reputable parking company that offers both 1-click and 2-click landers. I also need them …
Read More »Clueless company threatens Rick Schwartz
A totally clueless company threatened Rick Schwartz with a Cease and Desist letter about one of Rick’s domain names: Prop.com. Here is what Rick said about this in a tweet: C&D Meets FU POS Wants …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 6 domains for $137,138 in October
Mike Mann reported selling 6 domain names in October for a total of $137,138. Prices started at $12,500 and went up to $60,000. Mike Mann sold 6 .com domains which you can see further below. …
Read More »New website (full of BS, lies and omissions) created about the .ORG sale
The 3 companies involved in the .ORG domain name extension sale, PIR, Internet Society and Ethos Capital, created a new website about the .ORG sale: keypointsabout.org. This seems like a reply to the website created …
Read More »Did billionaire Republicans just buy the .ORG domain extension?
I guess you have by now heard the news about the .org extension being sold to Ethos Capital. A Medium post claims that there are more investors besides Ethos Capital and behind these investment firms …
Read More »“Why your business needs a business domain name” (video)
“Why your business needs a business domain name” video from GoDaddy. See the video here: ⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰ 00:23 – What is a domain? 00:56 – Consider SEO with a business domain name 01:43 – Use a …
Read More »A few important details on Mike Mann’s domain sales
I have a few important details and comments on Michael Sumner’s “Don’t Shoot for the Moon” post on Namebio.com about Mike Mann’s domain sales that people must consider. First of all I have to say …
Read More »Hilco Streambank marketing Thomas Cook domain names for sale
Hilco Streambank is marketing for sale a portfolio of domain names of Thomas Cook Group Plc (in Liquidation) and certain subsidiaries (also in Liquidation) (the “Companies”) on behalf of Simon Appell, Alastair Beveridge, Daniel Imison …
Read More »Escrow.com processed $69,300,000 domain sales in Q3 2019
Escrow.com processed $69,300,000 domain sales in Q3 2019 of which $14,590,000 were from “liquid” domain name sales. Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG published the 13th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the …
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