Cost of holding domain for six years decreases by as much as $10.78. Hey, don’t say the U.S. government never did anything for you. They just gave domain name owners a $10.78 price reduction over the term of the next .com contract by eliminating price increases. Assuming that Verisign would have increased prices in the [...] Continue reading →

TheArtOfTheName.com – How to find valuable domains in domain droplists. Transcript to Follow. [...] Continue reading →

Today’s shock news that Verisign will be subject to a .com price freeze for the next six years will have broad implications. The US Department of Commerce has told the company it will have to continue to sell .coms at $7.85 wholesale until 2018, barring exceptional circumstances. Here’s my initial take on the winners and [...] Continue reading →

Internet Traffic, the 1.3 million domain repository of quality domain names spearheaded by Frank Schilling, has rolled out an important back-end update to its user interface. There is now an option to define one’s payment method for PPC, as seen in the capture below. These options include payment of one’s PPC revenue via PayPal or [...] Continue reading →

I use Archive.org a lot, to view the status of web sites years ago. It’s an invaluable and free service. The stress should go on “free“, however more often than ever I find this free service to be unavailable. This statement comes up often, recently, when trying to view snapshots from 2002 or earlier: “Bummer. [...] Continue reading →

(George Kirikos just pointed out that I did not take into account the compouding of the Verisign rate increase and he is correct so I have correct the math and the numbers) Mike Mann owns around 330,000 domain names. Based on Verisign’s contract  renewal to operate the .Com registry over the next six years, without [...] Continue reading →

Backing up your data isn’t just an option these days, it’s a requirement. Prior to the proliferation of digital content, the majority of one’s assets were tangible and one had to take special precautions to protect it. For example, storing photo albums away from heat, humidity or sunlight. Today, however, digital content or “data” constitutes [...] Continue reading →