In an email sent yesterday afternoon, Hilco Streambank announced it will be rebranding its IPv4Auctions.com website to IPv4.Global. This is Hilco Streambank’s platform for selling version 4 Internet Protocol addresses. I asked Hilco Streambank CEO Gabe Fried why they chose a .Global domain name for their platform. Here’s what Gabe told me: “IPv4.Global is short [...] Continue reading →

Domain registrar gives free .me domain name and online tools to students. Domain name registrar Namecheap has hit a big milestone in its Namecheap University program: 200,000 free .Me domain names. The program offers students and educators a free .me domain name and online tools for one year. Namecheap launched the initiative in 2014. It [...] Continue reading →

The .film gTLD saw a small spike in registrations this week after dropping eligibility requirements. The Australia-based registry, Motion Picture Domain Registry, went fully unrestricted February 22 and immediately saw at least 100 new names in its zone file. It’s a small increase, but it meant .film, which sells for roughly $70 (101domain) to $120 [...] Continue reading →

New feature will combine different domain name variations. Google is introducing a new concept called “domain properties” to its Google Seach Console. Website owners use Google Search Console to get insight into their Google search traffic including keyword data, spidering and links. The search giant asks site owners to add all possible variations of their [...] Continue reading →

Google recommends verifying all versions of a website — http, https, www, and non-www — in order to get the most comprehensive view of your site in Google Search Console. Unfortunately, many separate listings can make it hard for webmasters to understand the full picture of how Google “sees” their domain as a whole. To [...] Continue reading →

The 2019 IGF will be held in Berlin, Germany from November 25th to November 29th. This year’s event is being hosted by the German government and will take place in the Estrel Congress Centre. The local host is using a .berlin domain name [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! For some, investing in domains was are is their first investment. For others it is another investment you stumbled on. Either way, if you found success in one arena there is a high likelihood that you will invest in other instruments. It’s a casino with unlimited places to make a bet. But when [...] Continue reading →