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While the debate continues as to whether most new gTLDs are a sound long-term investment for their registry operators, there’s no disputing that the program has been an economic boom for ICANN. The 1,930 first round applications each required an application fee of $185,000, which added up to a tidy $357 million. Even after refunds [...] Continue reading
As many of you know I’m a bit of a programming language geek. For a long time (or at least long for me) I’ve been interested in understanding which programming languages (and dev stacks) are the best for a specific application. In college I spent a lot of time in the world of C [...] Continue reading
The folks over at .Club in the spirit of the holiday season have created a .Club holiday song. Tis the season… to have some fun as well, so we put together a little jingle to celebrate some of our favorite new domain names. From .dad to .directory, twenty-six of the new domain name extensions are [...] Continue reading
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with recent data courtesy of DN Journal and historical data from NameBio. Flips UPV.com – Sold recently for $16,200 at NameJet, vs $13,053 at Sedo last year. A thin flip….under $1k profit if I assume 15% commissions. Parked, and owned by an [...] Continue reading
While the debate continues as to whether most new gTLDs are a sound long-term investment for their registry operators, there's no disputing that the program has been an economic boom for ICANN. The 1,930 first round applications each required an application fee of $185,000, which added up to a tidy $357 million. Even after refunds [...] Continue reading
The overdesigned site continues to create traffic opportunities for domainers. Tapping web rage at an incompetently designed (and poorly constructed) website yields fresh ideas for new sites that will attract traffic as the frustration with the company destination site grows. The same tricks the website uses to improve SEO strands the customer at the website, [...] Continue reading