Another Cool $25 Million Bet on New gTLDs; The Next Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
LONG ISLAND, NY – Another cool $25 mil was spent on the next best thing to a .com, a dot Art domain. Now that’s a lot of Fishnagles if you
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The Domain Business: An American Dream and Reality of .Com Domaining
Below are some of the best videos on the domain business that I have ever seen. These stories lend credibility to what domainers work towards each day. I’ve been in
Forget That: Bing Wants Users to Ignore Ending .Com Domain Extensions
NEW YORK, NY –They say that actions speak louder than words. This holds true with Microsoft’s Bing.com search engine, the second most popular search engine service, which has implemented an
Websites and Domain Names to Become Insignificant within 20 Years or Less
LONG ISLAND, NY – Ten or twenty years ago, if you wanted to find information a search engine such as Yahoo would allow you to simply type-in what you were
Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/17/2017 – 04/23/2017
Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as NativeMedia.com at $18,000.00 US, the top ccTLD
Google to Become Judge, Jury and Executioner on Ad Placement
NEW YORK, NY – There are a number of domainers out there that live and die by the sword – that is, the ad placement sword, where they cut and
Major Security Vulnerability Due to IDN Domains; Don’t Get Phished Out of Business
NEW YORK, NY – This is the most dangerous and convincing phishing trick I have ever seen before. It’s so amazingly horrible it will fool even the smartest computer users
Google Will Pay $22M in Class Action Involving Ads on Parked Domains
NEW YORK, NY – I received an email this morning alerting me that I may be a member of class action suit where Google Inc. will pay $22,500,000.00 in a
Corporate Giant with New gTLD Explains What, How and Why It Chose New Domain
NEW YORK, NY – Canon Inc., a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan, is one of hundreds of global corporations which have applied to operate their very own domain extension on
Category Killer Domain Shoes.com Acquired in $9M Transaction by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY – According to domain name industry news publication DNJournal.com, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., owned subsidiary ShoeBuy, has acquired the Internet domain name Shoes.com in a $9,000,000.00 transaction which
Is There a Limit to Your gTLD Stupidity Meter? At $185k a-Pop, Who Cares Right?
NEW YORK, NY – There are a lot of cool looking domain name extensions hitting the market and making the rounds these days – so many in fact it is
Review.info Sells for $6k on Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/03/2017 – 04/09/2017
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Sedo released its weekly sales list, a list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as Susen.com at $36,000.00
Making Their Mark: “Big Brands” Invest Hundreds of Millions on .Dot Alternatives
NEW YORK, NY – Regardless of what your position is on new gTLD domains “Big Brands” are buying in hook, line and sinker while ICANN is raking in hundreds of
Audio Arguments for ‘Calculated Theft’ Attempt of HeidiPowell.com Domain
NEW YORK, NY – For those who are unaware of the backstory behind the failed cyber-squatting attempt by Arizona Heidi in her effort to steal the online identity of the
Basically: How to Make a Good Website from a Domain Name; Layman’s Terms
NEW YORK, NY – Sometimes a simple explanation of how to do something can go a very long way. That is what we are doing this evening, we’re going over
New gTLD Success Will Be Measured Only by Use; Not Sales, Not Registrations
NEW YORK, NY – This week a new gTLD sale made the news, not because of its great keyword, but due to its high price and its ending extension. The
The Disappearing Act of the Web’s Best Web Directories; Where Are They Going?
NEW YORK, NY – Last week, news began to circulate the search optimization-spear that DMOZ.org, one of the oldest and most trusted web directories ever online, was discontinued forever (as
Episode 128 of Domain Name Wire Features Internet Commerce Board Member
NEW YORK, NY – This week, listening to the Domain Name Wire podcast (Episode #128), not only will you find out all about what’s happening in the domain space recently,
EFTY: Your Own Domain Store Without Having to Build It Yourself; Seems Good
NEW YORK, NY – About a week or so ago I signed up for an EFTY (https://www.efty.com) 30-day trial account to test the platform as a way to have a
Just 2% of Top 100 Highest Priced .xyz Domains In Use for Bonafide Services
NEW YORK, NY – According to nTLDStats.com, a data provider offering statistics for new gTLDs, the .xyz domain has the highest number of registrations out of all new gtld domains
Who Needs Domains and Websites Anyway? Google Say’s “You’re A Loser”
NEW YORK, NY – It started way-back years ago when business directory owners noticed that Google looked like it may be starting to get into the local directory game. These
Schilling Comes Clean on Domain Hike; “Understands Price Increases Unpopular”
The world is in an uproar at the moment – the domain world that is. New gTLD domain names, those under the Uniregistry umbrella (which is a lot of them),