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Today: Starting a company using a .com, but somebody is already using the .in version / Forbes Magazine: Domain Name Do’s and Don’ts / Showcase and Discuss Turbine domains / And more! Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Buying Digital Marketing Agency Names – Be sure to double [...] Continue reading
Handover to Afilias is now complete. It’s already July 1 in Australia, and that means that Afilias is now the backend registry service provider for over 3 million domain names ending in .Au. .Au domain overseer auDA put the contract for managing .au out to bid, and in December of last year announced that Afilias [...] Continue reading
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on June 29, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve. I’m only showing where [...] Continue reading
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Afnic has published its 2017 study on the global domain name market, based on ICANN statistics, registry figures, specialized site information and internal research: At the end of 2017, the global domain name market represented some 342 million domain names, including 172 million legacy TLDs (.COM, .NET, .ORG, etc.), 24 million nTLDs created from 2014 [...] Continue reading
One of, if not the, hottest companies in the startup world right now is Bird Scooters. The startup launched less than two years ago and recently raised a monster $300M round of funding at a valuation north of $1B. This has left many people scratching their heads but some of the top VCs in [...] Continue reading
On Tuesday I went fishing in the Chesapeake bay for stripers on a friends boat. The fishing wasn’t great, I caught a few, but I had a good time. The waves were crazy, over 5 feet on a regular basis, so despite not catching many fish I always count it as a success when [...] Continue reading