Having been on the receiving end of many unsolicited emails over the years, you could say I have a finely tuned BS radar. The same cannot be said for newcomers to the domain name industry (or new Internet users), who fall victim to these scams. Here is one I received this morning: ————- Domain Availability [...] Continue reading →

I’m a data guy, so when I see some good work, I love to share it around, so everyone benefits. Earlier today I came across this post whereby MOZ (Pete Meyers) reviewed Page 1 Google results for 10,000 queries. The only context I’d add here is that it’s very early days in the nGTLD space. [...] Continue reading →

There is no question that .net.au is one of the most underestimated ccTLDs. I can report that we closed a deal back in Jan for 5-figures. Unfortunately I can’t go into specific details. What I will say, is that a lot of domain name sales go unreported. This is largely due to confidentiality reasons. Some [...] Continue reading →

Top 20 Mistakes Made by New gTLD Registries And How to Avoid Them Part 2 of 5 In Part 1 of the series I discussed competition, strategy, people and advertising. Today I’ll be talking about domain name investors, policy, marketing and growth predictions. #5 – You Have Under/Over Estimated Domain Investors What I’m going to [...] Continue reading →

Top 20 Mistakes Made by New gTLD Registries And How to Avoid Them Part 1 of 5 Based on more than two decades of experience in the Internet industry, I decided to put together my thoughts on where it can (and most likely will) go wrong. By putting together this series of articles, I sincerely [...] Continue reading →

.org (Public Interest Registry) released some interesting results for the 2nd Half (July to December) of 2013. The latest dashboard results show: Growth of 2.6% 40% of .org registrations coming from outside the USA 85% renewal rate of 3+ years de, uk, ca, fr and au and the top 10 countries The latest users [...] Continue reading →

This morning I received this message from a well known Domain Name Registrar. ———– Subject: Why use DOMAIN.US when you can get DOMAIN.EQUIPMENT for just $34.95 Hello, As you may be aware, the new domain name EQUIPMENT has just gone LIVE for general registration. <COMPANY NAME> is one of a very limited number of accredited [...] Continue reading →