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• 4 Years Ago Today Mr. Berkens Rang the Register, a Look Back

  

  On this day back in 2015 Michael Berkens announced that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy. (171 comments). At the time Michael could not give... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• TheDomains.com Turns 12

  TheDomains.com turned 12 on Wednesday and 10,725 posts and 112,592 approved comments later, Mike, Judi and I would like to thank everyone for their support the... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Bogus Domain Names and Spoofed Emails Lead to $1m Theft

  

  Bogus domain names and spoofed emails result in a hacker stealing $1million. Vice reported about a man in the middle attack where a Chinese hacker was able to... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Shares in NNR.com Sell out – Do You Want to Invest in Fractional Ownership?

  Disclaimer: Nothing below is a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell any domain name or do business with any of the companies mentioned below. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• NameJet/Snapnames November Monthly Sales Led by Wanda.com

  

  The NameJet/Snapnames November sales report was released and Wanda.com was the top sale at $83,817. UML.com was second at $21,400. Loxo.com was third at $18,056... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• How ICANN Can Intervene in the .org Sale

  

  Milton Mueller wrote a piece worth reading over at InternetGovernance.org about the .org sale. Mueller spells out what ICANN could do to intervene. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by BRgroup.com

  Sedo released their weekly sales and BRgroup.com led the way at $30,000. Potenzmittel.de was second at 19,000 Euros, ($21,051). German word dealing with... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Warned.com Was Not a Garden Variety “pricing Mistake”

  

  Four days ago I wrote an article about Warned.com and the buyer being told the price was not correct. The sale was not going to complete and the buyer... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• 882.cc Closes at $42,500 Highest Reported 3N.cc Sale Ever If It’s Paid

  Surprisingly there have only been 31 reported 3N.cc sales. 882.cc closed at $42,500 today on GoDaddy auctions and will be the highest sale ever. The previous to... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Bogus News Sites Making Big Money with Fake Views

  

  BBC.com published a story on websites that are using well known names like Forbes and BusinessInsider.com to make ForbesBusinessInsider.com. The maker of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Buyer of Warned.com Told the Sale Was a Mistake

  

  We see these things from time to time, remember DomainNames.com purchased for $2,577 by Yinan Wang and then Network Solutions said, yeah, NO! Yinan went on to... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Black Friday Special List Names for $200 Or Less

  List your Black Friday specials $200 or less, .com only So this post is for .com only and the max price is $200. You may list up to 3 names. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Emerging Trends That Have Sparked Cultural Shifts

  

  David Cohen wrote an interesting piece on AdWeek about data/trends related to Twitter. Twitter Reveals 18 Emerging Trends That Marked U.S. Cultural Shifts... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Hold up on That Whole Twitter Deleting Inactive Accounts

  Yesterday Twitter announced they would be deleting inactive accounts. Today they said no so fast. This impacts accounts in the EU only, for now. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• An Update on Pheenix

  

  JudgeMind started a warning thread on Namepros with regards to domain registrar and former drop catcher Pheenix. Apparently he was having a hard time getting... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Apparently It’s Not Hard to Get a .gov Domain

  Would you like a .gov address? It might be easier than you think to secure one, and that’s not a good thing. KrebsonSecurity.com published an article about how ... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by Buoy.com

  Sedo released their weekly sales and Buoy.com led the way at $110,000. Clean.Tech was the second highest sale at $30,000. WeLog.com was third at $20,000. 41 . Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Startups Who Raised the Most Money in 2019

  Denise Stephan published a piece on the crunchbase blog of the startups that raised the most money in 2019. Number 1 was Flexport Last Equity Funding: $1B Serie... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Look at the Top 10 .Org Sales and Where They Are Today

  

  .Org is next up in our series of taking a look at the Non coms. Checking in on where the top 10 biggest sales in the extension are up to lately. ( Sales data... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domain Registrars Are Saying “Thank You Boomer”

  

  Baby Boomers might not be thrilled with the term “Ok boomer” but registrars and registries sure are. Aja Romano @ajaromano writes on VOX. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH