These are some of the words or phrases that you don’t want to hear from a potential buyer of your domain name. This goes beyond the usual cheapskate pretending to be a student, people making …
Read More »A new Efty is coming soon
Efty just released in a tweet a sneak preview of the new Efty that is coming soon. You can see a few of the new features and the control panel is a short video: Sneak …
Read More »Verisign asks ICANN to extend implementation of Thick WHOIS by one year
Verisign is requesting that ICANN extend all dates in the current implementation plan for the Thick WHOIS Policy by one year, to coincide with the time-frame for concluding any temporary policy and corresponding community work. …
Read More »ICANN receives data protection/privacy guidance from Article 29 Working Party
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) today announced that it has received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) [PDF, 400 KB] that provides guidance on the European Union’s General …
Read More »ICANN people think they are rock stars spending millions on meetings around the world!
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the ICANN61 By the Numbers report, which includes technical, demographic, and attendance statistics. Why did ICANN wasted so many hours to create this 54-page report …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: president, passion, fortnite
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of March 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keywords in the 2 …
Read More »Namejet domain name auction front running continues. This time with an Oliver Hoger owned domain.
It seems that Namejet domain name auction front running is still continuing and going strong. I received an email a couple days back about someone pretending to be the owner of a domain name that …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 8 domains in March for $112,290 (Kugga(.)com, StephenHawkings(.)com, etc.)
Mike Mann reported selling 8 domain names in March for a total of $112,290. Prices started at $350 for a typo and went up to $28,888. All8 of the sold domains were .com. The average …
Read More »Where did the domain name investors go?
I have been wondering in the past few weeks where the domain name investors have gone. It seems that a significant percentage has left the industry. This happened in the end of 2017 so it …
Read More »Namejet sold 102 domains in March for a total of $508,332
Namejet released its March 2018 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 102 domains in February for a total of $508,332. The average sales price was $4,984. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 …
Read More ».NYC will have a travel and tourism domain name auction
.NYC will have a travel and tourism related domain name auction in May. The auction opens May 3, 1 PM ET and closes May 10, 1 PM ET. The auction features 25 domain names: boattour.nyc …
Read More »A few domain name registrars that are already masking or blocking whois
We are less than 2 months away from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it seems that a few domain name registrars are already masking or blocking whois details. Blocking has been going on …
Read More »DomainNameStats.com: A new domain statistics site covering all TLD’s released in Beta
DomainNameStats.com has been officially released in Beta. DomainNameStats.com is a new domain statistics site covering all TLD’s that exist on the internet today. DomainNameStats.com and NameStat.org are operated by Name Metrics Ltd, a global domain …
Read More »Google rolling out mobile-first search indexing
Google announced that after a year and a half of experimentation and testing, they have started migrating sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing. To recap, Google crawling, indexing, and ranking systems has …
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