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Google Ceases Selling New Domains as Transition to Squarespace Continues 

September 29, 2023 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Back in July of this year, Google abruptly announced that it would be ending its Google Domains service after nearly 10 years and would be selling the business and all of its assets to Squarespace, a New York-based website building and hosting company. This month, as the transition from one company to another continues, the soon-to-be-shuttered Google Domains quietly revealed that it has ceased the sale of any new domains going … [Read more...]

Domain Registrar Namecheap Gives Away Half a Million Free .me Domains to Students

September 7, 2023 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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PHOENIX, AZ - Namecheap, the Phoenix, Arizona-based domain name registrar and web hosting company originally founded in 2000, recently announced that they have given away a total of 500,000 free .me domain names to students in conjunction with their Namecheap for Education program.  The company originally started the program in 2014, which provides students, teachers, and others involved in academia who are located in North America, the United Kingdom, and … [Read more...]

WordPress Offering 100-Year Domain Registration, Hosting Plan for $38,000

August 31, 2023 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA –  WordPress – which recently made headlines when they offered up to one million Google Domains customers free transfers to their service after the company's assets were acquired by Squarespace – announced this week a new plan where they will be selling domains with a registration length of 100 years for a one-time payment of $38,000.  Known primarily for its content management system that allows users to create simple and easy-to-use … [Read more...]

Website Company Squarespace Enters Agreement to Purchase Google Domains

July 13, 2023 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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NEW YORK, NY - New York City-based website building and hosting company Squarespace announced this week that they will be entering into an agreement to purchase Google Domains – a domain name registrar operated by Google that offers domain registration, DNS hosting, dynamic DNS, domain forwarding, and email forwarding – in a deal that includes all of the company's assets, which includes approximately 10 million domains that are owned by millions of … [Read more...]

LifeLock Confirms My Data Was Revealed on “The Dark Web” After 2021 “Epik” Data Leak

July 14, 2022 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL – This morning I received an email notification that information or data which is presumed to be connected to my identity has been found on “The Dark Web” after the domain name and hosting company, Epik.com was hacked last year. The service is part of LifeLock by Norton. The following message arrived: Logging into my account a more detailed explanation explains that my personal information associated with the epik.com leak was located on the Dark … [Read more...]

GoDaddy Makes Two Recent Acquisitions of Leading Domainer Tools and Services

July 8, 2022 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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TEMPE, AZ - GoDaddy, the well-known domain registrar and hosting company, announced last week they will be acquiring competing domain sales company Dan.com, a move that GoDaddy stated would enable them to “reach more potential buyers.” Previously launching under the name Undeveloped, Dan.com made a name for themselves by attempting to undercut the competition by reducing their initial industry-standard commission fee of 15 percent to just 9 percent, which led to several … [Read more...]

Are You Losing Backlink Credit or Traffic from Your Forwarded Domain Names?

November 28, 2020 By John Colascione 2 Comments

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL – There are many reasons why you might want to forward a domain name; you might have moved your website, you own multiple domain names, or you purchase domain names which have existing traffic or backlinks. If you do not forward your domain name correctly, you could be losing backlink credit and/or traffic. Here are some scenarios to forward your domain name properly. The Simple Easy Way (Free and Doesn't Require Hosting) If you have your domains … [Read more...]

It’s Only A Matter of Time Until You Need to Be Licensed to Operate A Web Server

May 5, 2020 By John Colascione 6 Comments

PALM BEACH, FL – I have been thinking about this off and on for a few years now, but I have never really posted or written about it. That is because it is an awful prediction that I hate the idea of, but I think it is going to eventually happen. Here it goes…. I predict that to operate a web server sometime in the near future, you will be required to have a license, or have passed a basic course in IT security or Cybersecurity intrusion mitigation. Not at the single site … [Read more...]

Two Year Investigation Leads to Take Down of File Hosting Site “Share-Online.biz”

October 23, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL – An investigation which began in 2017 has eventually led to the take-down and removal of a content hosting network using the domain name “Share-Online.biz”, which was particularly popular in Germany according to SimilarWeb. The site served up to 10 million visitors a month with millions of files stored across unknown number of servers which is expected to be in the hundreds Those 10 million visitors are now met with the following take-down notice: This … [Read more...]

German Police Raid Hosting Facility Dubbed “CyberBunker”; Seize Domains, 200 Servers

October 3, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

BERLIN – Thirteen people were arresting during a raid in Germany on September 27, 2019. According to Brian Krebs, a security journalist and investigative reporter for Krebs on Security, the raid targeted the physical premises of a Dark Web hosting operation that described itself as a “bulletproof” hosting provider that was willing to provide web site hosting services to any business, no matter how illegal or unsavory. This past Friday, 600 military equipped officers … [Read more...]

Today’s ‘Successful’ Business Owners Become Experts at Doing More with Less

February 10, 2019 By John Colascione 1 Comment

NEW YORK, NY – At a time when the economy is said to be continually improving, if you ask around to fellow business owners, most seem to be in a never ending phase of finding ways to efficiently cut costs and reduce expenses. In fact, this is a good practice for any business owner to keep top-of-mind, annually, or even monthly. To do this effectively, you must identify ways to implement change with minimal effect on production, products and service quality. The changes … [Read more...]

Entrepreneurial Inspiration: Jeff Bezos, Amazon and Earth’s “Blue Origin”

December 16, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK, NY - Jeff Bezos, the guy who built and envisioned Amazon, the largest and most successful online only shopping site, isn’t much different than your average entrepreneur. He was raised in Houston Texas, is a child of divorce, was later adopted, worked at McDonald's as a young boy and went on to attend Princeton University where he graduated with a 4.2 grade point average. He is very much human - and - certainly a hard worker. Bezos held several good jobs after … [Read more...]

Why You’ll See Me at the MERGE Digital Asset Conference Again This Year

August 31, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK, NY – I’m happy to report that I will again be visiting beautiful and sunny Orlando Florida this September 14-19 for the Merge Domain Conference, rightfully dubbed the “Merge Digital Asset Conference”. MERGE serves as a five day multi-conference event focused on Digital Assets, Domains, Hosting, E-Commerce, Content Management, Security, Intellectual Property, Stock Photography, UX, Design, Blockchain and Crypo-Currencies and more. To me it’s just another … [Read more...]

How to Become a ‘Rockstar Domainer’ by Developing Your Own Domain Assets

February 10, 2018 By John Colascione 3 Comments

NEW YORK – Unless you have been living in a cave for the last few years, you’ve caught wind that parking your domain names is potentially the worst thing you can do to monetize them. Today, you need to DEVELOP your domain names into real web services to earn realistic profits from them, but development is not always easy, especially if you do not know how to do any of it yourself, as it can be VERY EXPENSIVE. Development involves an ‘idea’, planning, design, development, … [Read more...]

List of Newer “Keyword Rich” gTLD Domains Changing Hands So Far This Year (NameBio)

June 28, 2017 By John Colascione 3 Comments

NEW YORK, NY - This is not going to be an all inclusive list as some domain sales go unreported and some I've heard of which are not listed, such as "Homes.Forsale" and "Houses.Forsale", but this will give you a good idea of the types of names changing hands and the types of dots which are building momentum. The following list of gTLDs were listed at NameBio as closing sometime during this year (2017). They are listed in alphabetical order by TLD. The list does not include … [Read more...]

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Google Ceases Selling New Domains as Transition to Squarespace Continues 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Back in July of this year, Google abruptly announced that it would be ending its Google Domains service after nearly 10 years and would be selling the business and all of its … [Read More...]

Google Launces New System for Creating Web Page Titles In Search Results

WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Web page titles may begin to appear differently in search results on Google as they have altered its system for generating titles for search listings. On Tuesday, August 24, … [Read More...]

Scammers Sending Emails from Spoofed Authoritative Domains Via Forwarding Flaws

LA JOLLA, CA - According to research conducted by the University of California San Diego, due to flaws inherent in the process of forwarding emails, the ability for scammers and attackers to send … [Read More...]

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