An old name in the domain name business gets a big cash infusion. Website marketplace Flippa has raised an $11 million Series A round over a decade after it was founded. Flippa lets people buy and sell online businesses, and was doing it since before it was cool. I visited the company’s headquarters in [...] Continue reading →

Francois Carrillo successfully defended his valuable nuro.com domain with help of attorney John Berryhill. Francois Carrillo, owner of the popular domain news aggregator Domaining.com, has successfully defended (pdf) his domain name nuro.com in a UDRP. The Complainant was also found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Canadian healthcare company NURO Corp. filed the UDRP. [...] Continue reading →

A call that starts with a discussion about the Epik hack covers lots of ground and sometimes goes off the rails. Here are some of my takeaways. Rob Monster in a live meeting last Thursday. Photo from video still. On Thursday, September 16, Epik CEO Rob Monster held a live meeting on his platform PrayerMeeting.com [...] Continue reading →

SC Johnson turns .off its new top level domains. Consumer products company SC Johnson has told ICANN it wishes to terminate the remainder of its dot-brand top level domain names. Last year, the company terminated its agreement for the .rightathome top level domain. Now, it has informed ICANN that it wishes to terminate .glade, [...] Continue reading →

Credit card exposure from breach could have a major impact on customers. Credit card data, which apparently includes CVV data, was exposed in the Epik breach. I’ve been writing a lot about the Epik security breach, and you can expect to hear a lot more in the coming weeks as more details come out. Yesterday, [...] Continue reading →

Can SquadHelp crack the geo domain sales code? Can SquadHelp crack the code to help you sell more geo domains? On today’s show, SquadHelp CEO Darpan Munjal discusses the company’s plans to help you sell more domains like LosAngelesSiding.com and AustinAllergists.com. We also get an update on lots of new features that should help [...] Continue reading →

Registrar says payment card information may have been compromised. An anonymous group said it has hacked domain name registrar Epik and downloaded significant data. Late Saturday night, domain name registrar Epik sent an email to customers confirming the hack that was widely reported last week. This comes after one official email communication from the company, [...] Continue reading →