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• New.Life Gets a Christmas Present as Open.money Sells for $25,000

  

  Namepros member New.Life got his wish from Santa Claus, his third five figure new gtld sale of the year. A couple of months ago New.Life sold two new gtld... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Rebranding Trends for 2020

  

  Forbes published an article on the trends surrounding rebranding. Looking back at 2019 and forward to 2020. Those who own and trade short names especially . Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Should New Gtlds Be Viewed Through the Lens of a 20 Year Plan?

  

  I have been under the weather this weekend so I have not been reading texts and emails right away as normal. A few people were mentioning to me the post we did ... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Last Sale Post of the Year, Generate Some Christmas Cash

  Last sales post of the year, a chance to make some last minute Christmas money. I got a few emails this week asking if there would be a post? Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: Third Quarter of 2019 Closed with 359.8 Million Domain Name...

  

  Verisign Q3 2019 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 359.8 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Third Quarter of 2019 Data shows that the third... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Reported New Gtld Sales in 2019 Down Over $2million from 2018

  

  2019 was not a great year for reported new gtld sales, after 2018 saw dollar volumes rise by 700,000, 2019 is looking down over $2 million. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Neuvoo.com to Become Talent.com

  

  Neuvoo is a job board that operates at Neuvoo.com. The company does not have a great rating over at TrustPilot with 92% of ratings as bad. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Wow A $147,000 Haircut?

  

  Sexe the French word for Sex sold in the .org extension back in 2008, by none other than the founder of this blog, Michael Berkens. Michael sold the domain... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by Xchange.com

  Sedo released their weekly sales, (the last report for 2019) and Xchange.com led the way at $42,077. Meds.co was second at 18,750 Euros, ($20,898).... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Efty 2019 Edition

  

  Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at man... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• ArsTechnica Tries to Get PIR to Open up About .org

  

  Ars Technica published a piece today on the pending .org sale. In another attempt to get PIR to release documents, Ars Technica reported that they contacted... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• What is on Your Christmas List Domaining Wise?

  

  Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay With 10 days til Christmas what would you like Domainer Clause to bring you for Christmas? What changes or new... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Who is in Charge of Domains at Maxim?

  

  Maxim magazine has been around since 1995, started in the U.K. and then headquartered in New York since 1997. The magazine has gone through some ownership... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – The Domain Industry

  

  We have been running a series for a few years, The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by OneHome.com

  Sedo released their weekly sales and OneHome.com led the way at $70,000. Quaestor.com was second at $26,000. nutztierhaltung.de was third at 22,000 Euros,... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• “Fast Transfer Means Fast Transfer Not Fast Payment”

  

  Richard Dynas started a thread on Namepros about his dissatisfaction with Afternic’s Fast Transfer. Other posters pointed out that fast transfer does not =... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICYMI: November 2019 – Top Stories

  The top posts of November 2019 on TheDomains November had a lot of action whether it was .org or the Namepros/Buckley matter. GetSupply.com rebranding to... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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