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I have put up a contact form on a lot of my domains and I get quite a few odd requests on a variety of subjects instead of valid domain name inquiries. Most of the time it is people that get the wrong website and don't understand what the contact form is for. I usually … The post Alarming Coronavirus messages in domain inquiries appeared firs...
Mike Mann reported selling 8 domain names in February for a total of $286,564. Prices started at $2,288 and went up to $169,888. Mike Mann sold 7 .com domains and 1 .org domain. The average reported domain sales price was $35,821. If you want to further understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here: … The post Mike Mann sells...
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced an update on the FY2019 performance of its latest acquisition, Team Internet AG, Germany ("Team Internet"). As reported by Matomy Media Group Ltd. ("Matomy Media") as part of their audited annual report for FY2019, during the period from 1 January 2019 through 24 December 2019, the date of the … The ...
PIR agrees to give ICANN an extension for deciding whether to accept or deny the transfer of the .org extension. Meanwhile "No Ethos Capital" tries to strengthen the PIC and .ORG Stewardship Council. See the PIR announcement today: PIR has engaged extensively with the .ORG Community over the past month. We participated in multiple community …...
No Ethos Capital announces additional steps trying to strengthen the Public Interest Commitment (PIC) and .ORG Stewardship Council. All these additional steps is just a smokescreen trying to persuade some people that don't yet know how corrupt No Ethos, ISOC, PIR and ICANN are. My feeling is that there is some behind the scenes negotiation … ...
What is front-running and how does it apply to domain names? Last month the 10-day auction for domain name detour.com was supposed to end at GoDaddy. The bids were above $30k but the domain was renewed and the auction cancelled a few hours before the auction was ending. Most probably some domain investor (or a … The post Front-running and dom...
Spamhaus has named .com the most abused top-level domain name extension in Botnets in Q3-2019. But it is not that simple as some additional stats show. The amount of newly detected botnet command & control servers (C&Cs) reached an all-time high in July this year with more than 1,500 botnet C&Cs detected by Spamhaus Malware … The ...
Spamhaus has named Namecheap the most abused domain registrar in Botnets in Q3-2019. The main problem here is that Namecheap is number one abused registrar by a very wide margin from the other registrars. The amount of newly detected botnet command & control servers (C&Cs) reached an all-time high in July this year with more … The pos...
Radix announced that it had acquired .UNO, a top-level domain that was previously operated by Dot Latin LLC. The ownership transfer was completed in September 2019. The domain extension will be available across Radixs 200+ registrar partners from early 2020. .UNO is the second 3-letter domain in Radixs portfolio, the first one being .FUN which R...
MOZ launched a new free tool giving a quick overview of top SEO metrics for any domain name: Domain Analysis. The new Domain Analysis tool is 100% free but is limited to 3 reports/day. Moz Pro users get unlimited reports. The MOZ tool showcases a quick preview of many top SEO metrics in one place, … The post MOZ has a new domain analysis tool...
David Olive, Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support published a blog post called "Public Comment Guidelines for the ICANN Organization". There was not obvious reason for David to write this post now as no discussion has been made on changing the ICANN bylaws or how Comment Periods work. I am pretty certain that ICANN is … The post ...
DAN.com (by Undeveloped) has some great pricing features that are especially useful for domain name sellers (and buyers) that are located in Europe. But sellers outside of Europe also need to tweak a couple of settings so that their domain name prices are presented correctly to the buyers. This post is about what features DAN … The post How t...
Nominet announced a new .UK Policy Consultation, inviting feedback from all interested stakeholders. The .UK policies provide the framework of principles for the .UK namespace. They are developed in consultation with a wide variety of stakeholders and aim to ensure a connected, inclusive and secure space for the UK internet community. The 2019 cons...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wrote a letter to the ICANN Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee to address certain errors in the ICANN Ombudsmans September 7, 2019 Substantive Evaluation of EFFs Request for Reconsideration. EFF claims that the Ombudsmans Evaluation misstated EFFs positions and had a fundamental misunderstanding of th...
Escrow.com and Hilco Streambank today announced they have partnered to integrate Escrow.com's Escrow Pay API into the IPv4.Global marketplace. The partnership combines Escrow.com's escrow agency with Hilco Streambank's IPv4 marketplace. "Together, the integrated auction platform offers the IPv4 market unprecedented levels of transparency along with...
Video is an important and growing medium used to consume information online. Google introduced today two new tools to help you understand your videos performance in Search and identify opportunities to improve your video markup. There are three main ways people can see videos on Google Search today: on the main Search page; on the … The post ...
Google announced a significant update to AdSense. Auto ads are now easier to use and come with better controls to customize the ad experience for your users. Google first started offering AdSense Auto ads in February 2018. Whats changing Easy setup and management – No more messing with ad codes! Auto ads now work through … The post Goog...
Many people have no respect for intangible things. Many people don't understand how and why intangible things can cost (a lot of) money or simply pretend not to understand and play stupid to get a freebie. The source of it all goes way back in the history on mankind. Only in the last few decades … The post No respect for intangible things app...
Tucows rebranded on Friday getting a new logo, new site and a new look. Tucows owns OpenSRS, Enom, EPAG, Hover and Ascio and is the second largest domain registrar in the world by volume and also runs Ting. Maybe now it is time to redesign Enom (that Tucows bought from Rightside in 2017) that hasn't … The post Tucows rebrands appeared first o...
It has been announced that the domain name fashion.com will be sold at auction this autumn. The announcement was made on the final day of Paris Fashion Week. "Withthe worldwide race in online fashion, I would expect fashion.com to attract a lot of interest from giant retailers and well-known brands, along with successful smaller players … The...
Nominet announced that following the annual review of pricing, the wholesale cost for a .UK domain registration or renewal will change to 3.90 per year from 13 January 2020. Nominet claims that "the 15p per domain increase reflects some of the increased costs of running the business since prices last changed in 2016. Having absorbed … The pos...
It seems that nothing works at GoDaddy lately. People have been complaining for weeks that they get error messages going to domain auctions or trying to manage their domain names. See here the latest problem where Elliot reports getting 504 errors when trying to get to his domain names at GoDaddy. Lately I have to … The post Expedited transfe...
I got an email that quickly summarizes what is wrong with some newbies (and sometimes not newbies) in domaining. From: alexisq0yeuclark @ gmail.com Hello! I noticed you have copyrightfilters.com. Are you interested in rightfilters.com? If so please let me know and I will get back to you with the full details. In any case, I … The post Front-r...
Google announced that it released a broad core algorithm update, as they do several times per year. It is called the September 2019 Core Update. The September 2019 Core Update is now live and will be rolling out across our various data centers over the coming days. Several times a year, Google makes significant, broad … The post Google releas...
Mike Mann reported selling 11 domain names in August for a total of $204,728. Prices started at $9,888 and went up to $29,888. Mike Mann sold 11 .com domains which you can see further below. The average reported domain sales price was $18,612. Mike shared some more stats from a few different days without specific … The post Mike Mann sells 11...
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), one of the world's leading owners and operators of Internet Top-Level Domains ("TLDs"), announced the Group's unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2019 (the "period"). MMX has recently switched its company results reporting from GBP to USD. The H1 results show a substantive R...
The Performance report helps webmasters and site owners better understand how their site performs on Google search, and answer questions such as: General stats: How much traffic did my site get from Search and Discover? Search queries: What are my sites top and trending search queries? Top content: What are my sites most successful pages … Th...
CSC Digital Brand Services will be having a webinar with the title "Domain Name Strategy 2020: Blocks, WHOIS, Cyber Criminals and Other Challenges". "As domain name policies, data privacy, cyber security regulations, and the global threat landscape continues to rapidly evolve, so must your domain name strategy. In this webinar, CSCs Gretchen Olive,...
Here are some news that came out over the weekend from Mike Mann and Rick Schwartz. Rick Schwartz Rick announced that he will be using Rick.tv as the home of all the videos he has posted in the past few months on Twitter. After much consideration and helpful input from all of you, I have … The post News from Rick Schwartz and Mike Mann appear...
There have been a few confusing changes at DropCatch.com concerning payment. Up until last month when you won an auction you would get an email saying: "You currently have items in your DropCatch account that require payment. Please login to your DropCatch account and complete payment at your earliest convenience. " You then needed to … The p...
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of August 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list fromlast month here. There is 1 common keyword in the .com and .net lists: dorian It seems that 700 or 800 (or even … The post Trending domain name keywords: jumbo,...
It seems that .org is preparing us for a price increase that is most probably coming up in 2020. They are changing their brand (Meet the new .org) to prepare us for what was bound to happen. PIR will be using thenew.org as their new website moving away from pir.org. PIR is preparing us for … The post Meet the new expensive .ORG domains appear...
GoDaddy launched its new product today called "Websites + Marketing" in the GoDaddy launch event 2019. GoDaddy Websites + Marketing is an all-in-one solution that "empowers every idea, business, side hustle or nonprofit cause to claim their place online and look great in all of the places that matter." Websites + Marketing claims to be … The ...
Rob Monster and Sufyan Alani from Epik are running a .COM promo on Namepros. Epik has, as of yesterday, reduced prices at $5.49 for new .com domain name registrations and at $6.49 for .com domain transfers. Epik will honor these prices through September 30. I am taking advantage of the transfer promo as we speak … The post Epik is running a ....
ICANNs Ombudsman, Herb Waye called the 3,200 comments we, the registrants, submitted for the .org contract renewal (and the removal of price caps) SPAM. Or at least many of them were SPAM: "As far as comments go for ICANN, 3200+ appears to be quite a sizeable number. But, seeing as how the public comments can … The post Herb Waye, ICANNs Ombu...
Do you ever wonder why some of your potential buyers go MIA after you reply to a domain name inquiry? I did and I realized that I had an email deliverability problem. But how did I realize? I wrote the other day that I hadn't replied to domain inquiries for 3 weeks. So I started … The post Domain inquiries and email deliverability problems ap...
Today marks the 18th anniversary of September 11, 2001 and VPN.com is remembering the day by donating the domain name ToddBeamer.com to his family. The domain was registered 6 months ago. "Todd Beamer is an American hero who gave his life to protect others as a civilian passenger on flight United 93." We are so … The post VPN.com donates 9/11...
Google is evolving the nofollow tag by introducing 2 new link attributes – sponsored and ugc. These are 2 new ways to identify the nature of links. All will now work as hints about which links Google Search should consider or exclude for ranking purposes. Nearly 15 years ago, the nofollow attribute was introduced as … The post Google ev...
Brandsight concluded their Third Annual Domain Management Survey. The survey was sent to more than 300 companies. Of those that responded, 18% had portfolios smaller than 500 domains, 34% had mid-sized portfolios containing 501 3,000 domains, 32% had large portfolios containing 3,001 10,000 domains and 16% had portfolios with more than 10,000 dom...
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q2/2019has been published. The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European ccTLD market. Highlights from the report Median growth in global domain name registrations has hit a new recorded low; There has ...
It has been 3 weeks since I last replied to domain inquiries and I feel fine! During the year I reply to all domain inquiries within 24 hours. It doesn't matter if it is a weekend or a holiday. But this August I took some time off. And I took some time off from domain … The post 3 weeks without replying to domain inquiries appeared first on O...
CentralNic Group Plc (AIM: CNIC) announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2019. Both revenues and Adjusted EBITDA have tripled year-on-year, driven by a combination of growth through acquisition and underlying organic growth of c.6%. Asindicatedinthe2018 year end results, theDirectorswereconsidering amendingthe Group'spresen...
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG published today the 12th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call liquid. The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the fair value of such domains. The 2019 Q2 LXDO comes … The post L...
Michael Gargiulo, founder and CEO of VPN.com, went to the 1st annual "Asheville Professional Domain Investors Meetup & Family Outing" and published a video with his top 3 takeaways. Michael enjoyed an incredible conference (Thu, Aug 1, 2019 –Sat, Aug 3, 2019) in Asheville with Rick Schwartz and company. Watch the video below to learn R...
Mike Mann reported selling 3 domain names in July for a total of $68,288. Prices started at $18,000 and went up to $25,400. Mike Mann sold 3 .com domains which you can see further below. The average reported domain sales price was $22,763. Mike shared some more stats from a few different days without specific … The post Mike Mann sells 3 doma...
On November 5th, 2019 Donuts will reduce pricing for more than 1.1 million previously unregistered premium domain names. Approximately 250,000 Donuts premium domains will drop in price and more than 850,000 premium domains will move to standard pricing. The DonutsPremium Pricing Event, starting on September 5th, gives everyone the option to registe...
Most of the time, Google's search engine runs properly but in April 2019 many different issues appeared at about the same time. "Our teams work hard to prevent technical issues that could affect our users who are searching the web, or webmasters whose sites we index and serve to users. Similarly, the underlying systems that … The post How Goo...
EURid released its 2019 Quarterly Progress Report. .EU is shrinking ending Q2 2019 with 3,623,691 domain registrations. The extension had 3,790,450 domains ending Q2 2018. But you will not find this number comparison in the report below! Q2 2019 saw the launch of the2019 .eu Web Awards, the strengthening of EURid efforts to fight online … The...
Mike Mann reported selling 4 domain names in June for a total of $144,720. Prices started at $9,944 and went up to $94,888. Mike Mann sold 4 .com domains which you can see further below. The average reported domain sales price was $36,180. Mike shared some more stats from a few different days without specific … The post Mike Mann sells 4 doma...
I noticed that the gtld.link domain name forum has been offline for a few months now. I checked out archive.org and the website was last archived on March 8, 2019. I think it is safe to say by now that the forum has closed down. The forum that was dedicated to New gTLDs opened up … The post gtld.link domain name forum has closed down appeared...
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