Morning Folks!! I am going to tell you a story of a Dumb Domainer. A nice guy, with a great domain but he is dumb. But wait!! He is not alone! There are a LOAD of Dumb Dominers. So let’s see if YOU are a Dumb Domainer. You can close the blog now if you [...] Continue reading →

I can’t win a names to save my life.   Unless I REALLY want a name and willing to pay more than I think I should I simply don’t win auctions.  The last 20 auctions that I have bid in that were of any quality I have been out bid early or at the [...] Continue reading →

So one of the more active threads this week at Namepros, is about naming and shaming end users who back out of deals. The thread is actually the 2.0 version due to the first thread being closed as the OP decided to dox the person they had a problem with. There are many things to [...] Continue reading →

Today: New gTLD .xyz and New Years predictions / LocalPlumbers.com sold for $8,902 / The best thing about the “new registration addiction” / And more! Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Buying One word .com, net, org – Budget: Up to $1,000.00 – Be sure to check your [...] Continue reading →

ZDNet published an article this week about the popularity of .TK and it’s position as the #1 ccTLD with .CN coming in at #2. That being said, I think .TK is the #1 ccTLD for one reason and one reason only, it’s free, not because it has anything to do with the tiny island [...] Continue reading →

From the perspective of the domain name industry, 2018 was strongly influenced by, among other things, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Temporary Specification and especially the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP). For the Contracted Parties House (CPH) TechOps Group, one year after its foundation, it was a very exciting and [...] Continue reading →

A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 28, 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 →