The MPAA has begun exercising its agreements with internet providers, advertising agencies and even payment processors in order to avoid court orders and take down offending sites within ten days or less. This type of agreement started with the Donuts registry back in February of 2016. Under this agreement, the MPAA became the “Trusted Notifier” [...] Continue reading →

A couple years ago a middle aged man walked out of my office in a hurry. Minutes earlier he was in the middle of explaining to me how he drove four towns over with a freezer full of meat in the back of his pickup truck looking to make a sale. He was polite, well [...] Continue reading →

We all have to watch out for outgoing expenses. One of the fastest ways to lose money in the domain industry is be ignorant about how the internet and marketing works. Some domainers have grandeur illusions of grand success about building out websites, optimizing their domains and so on because they lack the knowledge [...] Continue reading →

A guide for everything .tel can and can’t do. What .TEL Is .tel is a new domain extension released in March 2009 by and  overseen by Telnic. Interesting .TEL Facts DNS records are encrypted with 1024 bit security to prevent indexing by spammers. This system is untested. It is unknown at this time [...] Continue reading →

With the 1 year birthday of .sucks just passed, John Berard, Founder of Vox Populi Registry that runs .sucks, wrote an article on CircleID.com reflecting on the past year. In it, he writes: A successful gTLD either meets a market need or creates an opportunity – Be clear about who you serve and use [...] Continue reading →

22 domains are being transferred to Prada due to a recent WIPO decision that all domains were registered in bad faith. Additionally, the domains were being used to sell counterfeit Prada items. Among the respondents are: xie xiaomei of Arizona, United States of America (“United States”) / zhang yuanyuan of Georgia, United States / [...] Continue reading →

Wild West Domains is a reseller company by GoDaddy who sells various domain reseller packages to businesses and individuals. In return, one could sell domains at a certain price range or even domain reseller accounts themselves. I had an account as a domain reseller with Wild West Domains for a little over a year. I [...] Continue reading →