GoDaddy changed their renewal/expiry domain name policy and owners now have 30 days after the expiration date to renew their domains. At that time the domain name is already in an expired domain name auction …
Read More »Efty brings SSL (HTTPS) encryption to its marketplaces
Efty announced today that they are bringing SSL (HTTPS) encryption to Efty marketplaces for all users on the Growth, Pro and Lifetime plans. Here is how Efty describes how this is important and how to …
Read More »Domaining.com is back! Google news feed has been disabled!
Francois Carrillo, owner of domaining.com, announced today that the domain name news feed from Google has been disabled on domaining.com. Apparently Francois got tired of cleaning the feed of irrelevant or duplicate content. Francois said, …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: crypto, bit coin, ethereum, mining
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of November 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. Crypto related keywords dominate the list and have …
Read More »Radix expected to make $12 million in revenue in 2017
Radix revealed that it has reached $11.7 million in annual revenue and will surpass the $12 million milestone before the end of the calendar year 2017. This is the first time that Radix, a self-funded …
Read More »CentralNic completed the acquisition of .sk (country code top-level domain for Slovakia)
CentralNic announced today that the acquisition of SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive country code top-level domain for Slovakia, .sk, has now been completed. The Company’s agreement to acquire SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive …
Read More »DropCatch to make 297 refunds because 2nd highest domain auction bidders were later suspended for non-payment
DropCatch.com has received a fair amount of criticism in the past few weeks because of some non-paying bidders and re-auctions. They said there was a glitch with a bidder’s account that allowed him to not …
Read More »Namejet sold 96 domains for $556,203 in November (npb.com, tajikistan.com, movingservices.com)
Namejet released it’s November 2017 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3-letter .com domains. People seem to liquidating these. Namejet sold 96 (112 domains in October) domains in October for a total …
Read More »Mike Mann is about to move his 300,000 domain names from Tucows to GoDaddy
Mike Mann said on Twitter that he is about to move his 300,000 domain names from Tucows to GoDaddy. Mike Mann operates the DomainMarket.com marketplace. Not sure what triggered his decision but it might be …
Read More »Robin Hood: expired domain name suggestions for tips!
Meet Robin Hood LTD, the company that provides unsolicited expired domain name suggestions for tips! I got an email yesterday that at first thought it was the usual email that is either selling a newly …
Read More »The state of domain name brokers
I have been really worried lately with the current state of domain name brokers. You may have read how “I don’t like brokers”. The problem is that most of the brokers know very little about …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in October: Uniregistry, domaining, Neustar whois, Undeveloped, Mike Mann, ridiculous prices, WTF?
October was a very busy month and had many important articles. Yes, this is the October post. I was so busy in November that I totally forgot to write this so for completion I do …
Read More »GoDaddy releases a new domain valuation tool and some interesting stats!
GoDaddy released a new domain valuation tool. The new GoDaddy Domain Appraisals are still in best testing. GoDaddy is launching a new domain valuation tool and wants to help people determine the value of their …
Read More »Neustar moves its website from Neustar.biz to Home.Neustar
Neustar, Inc. today announced that it has revamped its global website and that it is moving to its own .brand extension. Neustar’s new website is moving from Neustar.biz to Home.Neustar All of Neustar’s digital assets …
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