Here’s a look at the only Final Four you need to track this month Just like in that college basketball tournament going on this month, there are a lot of... [...] Continue reading →

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While updating the CARS new gTLD report for the month of March 2018, I noticed that the .BMW new gTLD had 53 ".bmw" domain names registered in February to 108 at the end of March. From the examples that I tested, most are not redirections anymore but real websites such as: http://ratzel.bmw [...] Continue reading →

GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner (since January 1, 2018) made an appearance on CNBC yesterday to discuss data privacy. Most importantly, he spoke about what GoDaddy is doing to protect its client data. In the interview, Scott also spoke about GoDaddy’s recent partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which was announced earlier this week and covered [...] Continue reading →

DomainNameStats.com has been officially released in Beta. DomainNameStats.com is a new domain statistics site covering all TLD’s that exist on the internet today. DomainNameStats.com and NameStat.org are operated by Name Metrics Ltd, a global domain name data analytics company, headquartered near Manchester in the UK. The company’s CEO is Andy Brier. NameStat.org started tracking new [...] Continue reading →

I get a fair amount of inquiries to buy my domain names. The vast majority are unrealistic – ie $100 for a one word .com domain name, but they come in regularly. Interestingly, it seems that the more qualified and reasonable offers are on my lower value domain name. Perhaps it is because there is [...] Continue reading →

A few new TLDs popped up at a tech conference in Florida. Michael Ward of The SSL Store attended Innovation Summit in Tampa Bay this week. As he walked through the exhibit floor he had an experience much like what I have at non-domain conferences: companies are using new top level domain names, but they [...] Continue reading →