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  • Otto 5:38 pm on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Online newspaper accuses Nigerian govt of disrupting access to its website
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 27, 2021, 9:31 pm
    Mr Ogundipe said the directive was aimed at blacklisting the organisation's web address as well as all other alternative domain names. “Our internal …
    PERFECTSTAY.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 04/06/2021 07:00 PM (PST), Price: $99, Number of Bids: 119, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    $245k in Sales on January 26th – Me.et sold for $15,100 – Daily Market Report
    NameBio.com     •     January 27, 2021, 12:55 pm
    The top sale of the day was Me.et which sold for $15,100 at Flippa. NameBio recorded 345 sales $100+ for a total of $225,530 with an average sale price of $654. Compared to the previous day there was…
    Video: DAN.com founder discusses the #domain platform at #NamesCon Online
    DomainGang     •     January 27, 2021, 11:04 pm
    NamesCon Online 2021 began today, with great participation from the domain industry, delivering enthusiastic panels. In one of the sessions—State of the Industry / Corporate Leaders—DNJournal founder…
     

  • Otto 1:56 pm on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Information Protection for the Domain Name System: Encryption and Minimization
        •    
    This is the final in a multi-part series on cryptography and the Domain Name System (DNS).

    In previous posts in this series, I’ve discussed a number of applications of cryptography to the DNS, many…

    Amid .club boom, one AV vendor is blocking the whole damn TLD
    Domain Incite – Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion     •     January 27, 2021, 11:22 am
    .club may be experiencing a mini-boom in sales due to the popular new Clubhouse app, but one antivirus vendor has reportedly decided to block the entire TLD. According to Forbes, the free…
    Verisign gets patent for domain name suggestion/registration via chatbot
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 27, 2021, 2:27 pm
    Patent describes way to use chatbots to help customers find and register domain names.
    A graphic from Verisign’s latest patent.
    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number…
    Clarivate: “Security the Biggest Challenge in Domain Management”
    DomainInvesting.com     •     January 27, 2021, 2:30 pm
    , one of the leading brand protection and corporate domain name management companies, published its 2021 domain trends report. Domain investors are likely most familiar with Clarivate’s MarkMonitor…
     

  • Otto 11:23 am on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Pirate IPTV Providers Must Be Blocked By ISPs, French Court Rules
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 27, 2021, 9:56 am
    … decisions concerning the blocking of nearly 340 sites corresponding to around 1,100 domain names.” The decision handed down on December 17, …
    NamesCon starts tomorrow, here are three talks on my radar + a little video surprise 🤩
    MorganLinton.com | Domain Names, Startups and Everything In Between     •     January 27, 2021, 4:12 am
    Normally the night before NamesCon starts I would be somewhere in the world having a beer with other domain investors, likely staying up way too late, but loving every minute of it. But as we all…
    175 Domain Discoveries for January 27th
    NameBio.com     •     January 27, 2021, 1:55 pm
    Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age…
    PAPO.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 04/27/2021 03:00 PM (PST), Price: $1,000, Number of Bids: 117, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    Radix registers over $2m in premium sales revenue for second half of 2020
    TheDomains.com     •     January 26, 2021, 7:03 pm
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  • Otto 8:05 am on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Frank Schilling Comments on His Upcoming gTLD Auctions
    DomainInvesting.com     •     January 27, 2021, 3:21 pm
    Uni Naming & Registry (UNR) is a domain name registry operator and backend services provider founded by Frank Schilling. The company was split off from other domain industry assets when GoDaddy…
    Frank Schilling will try to liquidate his 23 top level domain names in a single day
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 27, 2021, 3:07 pm
    Schilling will exit the new top level domain game if the price is right.

    Frank Schilling’s top level domain registry UNR is planning to liquidate its TLDs in no-reserve auctions held on a single…

    Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
    DSAD     •     January 27, 2021, 10:20 am
    No talks or panels for me at NamesCon this year. Wasn’t asked. I’m sure I opened my big mouth and said something somebody didn’t like. I also don’t have anything to sell so I wasn’t very driven to…
    UNR getting out of the registry business with $17 million no-reserve auctions on 23 new gTLDs
    Domain Incite – Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion     •     January 27, 2021, 3:25 pm
    UNR, the former Uniregistry, plans to auction off its portfolio of 23 new gTLD contracts in April. The company, owned by domain investor Frank Schilling, said on a new web site at auction.link: In a…
     

  • Otto 5:38 am on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Security the biggest challenge in domain management according to new report
    TheDomains.com     •     January 27, 2021, 10:26 am
    Clarivate put out a press release today with regards to domain management and security. No surprise as domain names become more valuable and meaningful to organizations around the world.

    The 2020…

    KXDK.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 02/14/2021 10:00 AM (PST), Price: $100, Number of Bids: 119, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    $245k in Sales on January 26th – Me.et sold for $15,100 – Daily Market Report
    Domaining.com     •     January 27, 2021, 4:55 am
     NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was Me.et which sold for $15,100 at Flippa. NameBio recorded 345 sales $100+ for a total of $225,530 with an average sale price of $654. Compared to the previous…
     

  • Otto 1:32 am on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Featured Listing: MoonLiit eCommerce Site
    Flippa     •     January 26, 2021, 6:02 pm
    Great opportunity for a young, but already lucrative drop-shipping business in the jewelry niche that is working on profit margins between 35-45% and a ROAS of between 2.5 and 3.5. Great chance for…
     

  • Otto 1:05 am on January 27, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    #GoDaddy : Grand plans for Afternic, Uni Market in 2021 and beyond
    DomainGang     •     January 26, 2021, 6:27 pm
    GoDaddy hosted a Zoom meeting today, reviewing 2020 and the effects of the pandemic on the domain industry, along with a presentation of its plans for the year ahead, and beyond. We’ve created a PDF…
    KQQH.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 03/16/2021 09:00 PM (PST), Price: $50, Number of Bids: 119, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    Are .club Websites Unsafe? This Security Firm Says So
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 27, 2021, 8:48 am
    “New TLDs on the whole use good abuse and malware scanning to prevent domain names being used in a nefarious way,” said domain name expert …
    That’s an interesting way to use MacyGray.com
    Domaining.com     •     January 26, 2021, 8:38 pm
     TLDInvestors.com: When I think of Macy Gray, I think of the song “I try” not an Indonesian online casino. But MacyGray.com is now an online casino. But for $22,700 someone is looking to get a return…
    Sedo weekly domain name sales led by BetterCare.com
    TheDomains.com     •     January 26, 2021, 9:21 pm
    Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and BetterCare.com topped the list at $30,000. LGW.com was second at $26,500 and Sin.net was third at $20,000.

    55 .com sales

    26 cctld sales

    3…

     

  • Otto 8:20 pm on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    MSCHF’s latest marketing stunt uses domain names to target presidential candidates
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 26, 2021, 6:19 pm
    The company registered potential candidates’ domain names and offered shares to the public.
    This “ransom note” is at MikePence4President.com.
    MSCHF, the creative marketing company that ran the “High…
    GoDaddy to introduce Buy Now lander for aftermarket domains
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 26, 2021, 5:11 pm
    Lander will be in addition to current “request price” landers.
    GoDaddy’s new “Buy Now” lander.
    GoDaddy is introducing a “Buy Now” lander for domain name sales after many requests from the domain…
    HugeDomains gets reverse domain name hijacking win
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 26, 2021, 4:52 pm
    Company in Spain filed dispute against CloudTango.com.

    HugeDomains has won a reverse domain name hijacking charge against the company that operates CloudTango.org, a directory of cloud services…

    The Exit Podcast – Learning To Fall with Gymnast Turned SheWorx Founder – Lisa Carmen Wang
    Flippa     •     January 26, 2021, 9:51 pm
    Lisa Carmen Wang was an olympic level gymnast whose lessons on the balance beam prepared her for life as a serial entrepreneur. Lisa founded SheWorx, a prominent global platform and event series…
    Featured Listing: CasinaMia
    Flippa     •     January 26, 2021, 6:12 pm
    Exceptional opportunity to acquire an Italian language content site in the “home” niche. Featuring over 1,000 articles on “how to” guides for around the home, this site is 4 years old, sees over…
     

  • Otto 6:53 pm on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Decoding Shein: Growing pains and bitter splits (Part 2 of 3)
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 27, 2021, 12:56 am
    Dianwei experimented with a slew of different domain names, such as do-a-fashion.com, plugging in key words such as “discount,” “fashion,” and …
    SEOMARKETINGCOMPANY.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 04/25/2021 04:04 AM (PST), Price: $20, Number of Bids: 117, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    196 Domain Discoveries for January 26th
    NameBio.com     •     January 26, 2021, 1:55 pm
    Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age…
    #Sedo : Domain sales report for January 25, 2021 — BetterCare.com at $30000
    DomainGang     •     January 26, 2021, 9:11 pm
    Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is that of BetterCare.com at $30,000 dollars! Welcome to the latest domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the two-week period ending on January 25, 2021.…
     

  • Otto 2:38 pm on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Alphabet to Shut down Loon, its Balloon Based Internet Access Project
        •    
    Photo: X – The Moonshot Factory

    Despite several groundbreaking technical achievements over the past nine years, Google’s parent company Alphabet has decided to end the Loon project. The company…

    GoDaddy to Introduce Branded BIN Landing Page
    DomainInvesting.com     •     January 26, 2021, 6:06 pm
    About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has sold seven…
    New Sedo CEO Michael Robrock Recounts His 20-Year Rise from College Kid to Leader of a Domain Industry Giant
    Domain Name Journal – The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com     •     January 26, 2021, 10:23 pm
    Featured in the  Wall Street

    Journal · Forbes ·  Bloomberg · Investors Business Daily ·  ABC News · BBC News ·  CNN/Money ·

    MSNBC · USA Today · New York Times …

    AUCTION RECAP OF JANUARY 25, 2021
    DSAD     •     January 26, 2021, 4:47 pm
    A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on January 23, 2021.
    If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from…
    Radix reports $2 million premium revenue in 2020 H2
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 26, 2021, 6:45 pm
    New top level domain company’s TLDs generated about $4 million in retail premium revenue last year.

    Radix has released data about premium domain sales within its ten top level domains from the…

     

  • Otto 11:29 am on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Email domain not allowed
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 26, 2021, 5:03 pm
    Students and When you enter addresses or domain names, Gmail checks them against the "From:" part of the message header, not the envelope …
    Radix registers over $2m in premium sales revenue for second half of 2020
    Domaining.com     •     January 26, 2021, 11:03 am
     The Domains: Radix released their second half 2020 premium sales data. $2.01M in premium retail revenue Comprises of $1.15M coming from renewals 37% growth in premium new registrations from H2 2020…
    WINATRIP.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Bid, Auction End Time: 01/26/2021 11:10 AM (PST), Price: $2,157, Number of Bids: 145, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 6, Valuation: $4,905, IsAdult: false
     

  • Otto 8:41 am on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    AUCTION RECAP OF JANUARY 24, 2021
    DSAD     •     January 26, 2021, 4:40 pm
    A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on January 24, 2021.
    If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from…
    IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, January 26th
    DSAD     •     January 26, 2021, 11:50 am
    I had an eventful day yesterday. I sold a domain on Brand Bucket, transferred another one that was sold through them, crashed into a ditch at work and caught a trout.
    I wasn’t even working. I was…
    DomainSherpa Review – Jan 21: Symple.io, Art2.com, FSH.com
    DomainSherpa     •     January 22, 2021, 9:40 pm
    What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Symple.io, Art2.com, and FSH.com• Get your bids in soon…
     

  • Otto 5:29 am on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    $216k in Sales on January 25th – Comunit.com sold for $12,000 – Daily Market Report
    NameBio.com     •     January 26, 2021, 12:55 pm
    The top sale of the day was Comunit.com which sold for $12,000 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 328 sales $100+ for a total of $191,375 with an average sale price of $583. Compared to the previous day there…
    Finwise.com : DropCatch sale ends up in #UDRP loss for Respondent
    DomainGang     •     January 25, 2021, 6:18 pm
    The buyer of the domain Finwise.com won the domain in a DropCatch auction, paying $4,190 dollars for it. Source: NameBio. Finwise BV, Belgium, filed a UDRP to get the domain, based on a series of…
    QMZ.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 04/20/2021 03:53 AM (PST), Price: $5,589, Number of Bids: 119, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    $216k in Sales on January 25th – Comunit.com sold for $12,000 – Daily Market Report
    Domaining.com     •     January 26, 2021, 4:55 am
     NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was Comunit.com which sold for $12,000 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 328 sales $100+ for a total of $191,375 with an average sale price of $583. Compared to the…
     

  • Otto 3:02 am on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    MMX: New CEO, settlement with ICM, layoffs, and prelim earnings
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 25, 2021, 5:17 pm
    New top level domain company provides updates and preliminary 2020 numbers.
    New top level domain name company MMX (aka Minds + Machines) (London AIM: MMX) made several announcements Sunday.
    First,…
     

  • Otto 12:32 am on January 26, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    VXZ.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 02/19/2021 11:05 AM (PST), Price: $250, Number of Bids: 120, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    How to prevent business email compromise attacks?
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 26, 2021, 6:00 am
    Registering domain names similar to yours will go a long way in protecting against email spoofing, which is the basis of successful attacks. 4.
    MikeBrownsPlanets.com sold for $5,100
    Domaining.com     •     January 25, 2021, 6:14 pm
     Domaining Tips: Today: Added domain protection and security / The appraisal of JustSupports.com / .IN for ONLY $0.99 / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain…
    Juked.gg raises a fresh $1M as it quickly becomes the content hub for eSports
    MorganLinton.com | Domain Names, Startups and Everything In Between     •     January 26, 2021, 1:26 am
    When most people think of sports, they think of ESPN, the hub for all sports…well kinda. While I appreciate that ESPN did add eSports to their site and app, the coverage is tiny compared to other…
    #Clubhouse domainers : Time to get your 10 dollar domain name?
    DomainGang     •     January 25, 2021, 8:27 pm
    Call me stupid, but I just had to join Clubhouse. It’s an iOS app, so for us Android plebes it’s a no-go. My fingers typed in www dot apple dot com and minutes later I was ordering a spanking new…
     

  • Otto 7:41 pm on January 25, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    Court: Lotto Sport Italia must pay $237k attorneys’ fees in reverse domain hijacking case
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 25, 2021, 11:49 pm
    Lotto Sport tried to reverse domain name hijack a lottery operator’s domains.
    A man who won a reverse domain name hijacking claim against Lotto Sport is asking for Attorneys’ fees.
    U.S. Magistrate…
    We need to talk about what’s going on at Clubhouse
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 25, 2021, 6:52 pm
    New domain investors are being fed a load of crap.
    Some good conversations about domains in Clubhouse. If only they were all this good.
    I love when new domain name investors get hooked on domains.…
    Nominations Open for Public Interest Registry (PIR) Board of Directors
        •    
    Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG, .NGO and .ONG domains? Or do you know of someone who would be a good…
    The New .AU Domain Licensing Rules and Their Impact
        •    
    The Australian domain registry, auDA, has now confirmed their new licensing rules will go into effect on April 12, 2021. The registry has been working on this change for quite some time in…
     

  • Otto 5:26 pm on January 25, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    KINGSALMONGUIDES.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 02/01/2021 06:00 PM (PST), Price: $15,000, Number of Bids: 120, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    Court: Lotto Sport Italia must pay $237k attorneys’ fees in reverse domain hijacking case
    Domaining.com     •     January 25, 2021, 3:49 pm
     Domain Name Wire: Lotto Sport tried to reverse domain name hijack a lottery operator’s domains. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Fine has ordered (pdf) sports apparel company Lotto Sport Italia to…
    190 Domain Discoveries for January 25th
    NameBio.com     •     January 25, 2021, 1:55 pm
    Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age…
     

  • Otto 3:05 pm on January 25, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    MMX vows to refocus under new boss after crappy 2020
    Domain Incite – Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion     •     January 25, 2021, 12:52 pm
    MMX says it plans to refocus its business on higher-margin products after a 2020 marred by plummeting registrations, product delays and financial irregularities that led to senior management being…
    What Will 2021 Have Install for the ICT Industry?
        •    
    While 2021 will remain a year with lots of uncertainties, at the same time, we can say that the pandemic has not affected the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in any…
    Initial thoughts on Clubhouse
    DomainInvesting.com     •     January 25, 2021, 6:20 pm
    I signed up for an account (@elliots) on the new Clubhouse app yesterday (thanks, Andrew), and I spent some time using it over the last couple of days. It is neat to be able to jump into an audio…
    Featured Listing: ShoutWorks
    Flippa     •     January 25, 2021, 7:49 pm
    Very unique opportunity to acquire a unique, patented SaaS product that is making use of the Amazon Alexa device for marketing related to your WordPress website. Ideal for a SaaS marketing guru or a…
     

  • Otto 1:07 pm on January 25, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    YWMN.COM
    Go Daddy Auctions – Most Active Listings     •    
    Auction Type: Offer, Auction End Time: 03/25/2021 05:00 PM (PST), Price: $20, Number of Bids: 117, Domain Age: 0, Description: , Traffic: 0, Valuation: $0, IsAdult: false
    #Clubhouse domainers : Time to get your 10 dollar domain name?
    Domaining.com     •     January 25, 2021, 12:27 pm
     DomainGang.com: Call me stupid, but I just had to join Clubhouse. It’s an iOS app, so for us Android plebes it’s a no-go. My fingers typed in www dot apple dot com and minutes later I was ordering a…
    Twenty-three SUNBURST Targets Identified
    Google Alert – "domain names"     •     January 25, 2021, 9:56 am
    These domain names and security products was the data available to the attackers when they decided which ones they wanted to proceed to Stage 2 …
     

  • Otto 8:56 am on January 25, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    New rules could stop registries ripping off big brands
    Domain Incite – Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion     •     January 25, 2021, 3:35 pm
    New gTLD registries could be banned from unfairly reaching into the deep pockets of famous brands, under proposed rules soon to be considered by ICANN. A recommendation approved by the GNSO Council…
    Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Monday, January 25th, 2021
    DSAD     •     January 25, 2021, 10:55 am
    I love the new Clubhouse app. Spent half the weekend on it exploring and listening and I think it’s got a great future. But I absolutely don’t love that some people in our industry are “pushing” dot…
    SmallestDick.com: Someone Trolling Ted Cruz
    DomainInvesting.com     •     January 25, 2021, 2:15 pm
    I was visiting random websites last night, when I came across SmallestDick.com. Ok, I kid, but these two tweets popped up on my timeline, and I apprehensively clicked through after reading some of…
    Digging into Squadhelp – DNW Podcast #322
    Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News     •     January 25, 2021, 4:30 pm
    How to get the most out of Squadhelp.

    Squadhelp launched its new white label marketplace for domainers last summer and I’ve been testing it out ever since. Today, I quiz Squadhelp CEO Darpen Munjal…

     

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