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Push.com is a valuable domain name, which I would be happy to own. The Whois record for Push.com is private, and the domain name forwards to the sparsely populated @push_dot_com Twitter page. It looks like that Twitter handle has only posted one tweet since it was created in October 2016. I thought it would be [...] Continue reading
The Yahoo Small Business website builder needs some work. I’ve reviewed a handful of website builders at this point: Wix, Weebly, Squarespace and GoCentral. Usually absent from discussions of the big site builders is Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon. Yet its legacy as a business offering website services for so long means many [...] Continue reading
In one of my morning alert emails from DomainTools, I noticed that NameFind appears to have sold the FBN.com domain name. When I visited FBN.com this morning, I saw that it appears to have been acquired by an organization called Farmers Business Network. A message on top of the landing page says, “Farmers Business Network will [...] Continue reading
ICANN today [27 Sep] announced that it will hold a webinar on 8 October 2018 from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC to provide an update on recent ICANN data protection and privacy activities related to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To facilitate global participation, interpretation services will be available in Arabic, Chinese, French, [...] Continue reading
The chair of ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council is contested this year, with a registry veep facing off against a software engineer. The nomination from the contracted parties house is US-based Keith Drazek, Verisign’s VP of policy and government relations at Verisign. He’ll be opposed by non-contracted parties nominee an current vice-chair Rafik Dammak, [...] Continue reading
Morning Folks!! There are folks that flip mobile homes and make a living. There are guys that sell mansions and they make much more and they work a lot less! They make many livings! I have referred to Domains as “Generational Wealth” for DECADES! What does that mean? It means I don’t intend nor expect [...] Continue reading
Content delivery network provider Cloudflare has promised to sell domains in all TLDs at the wholesale cost, with no markup, forever. The company made the commitment yesterday as it announced its intention to get into the registrar business. Founder Matthew Price used the announcement to launch a blistering attack on the current registrar market, which [...] Continue reading