Andrew Allemann founded Domain Name Wire in 2005. According to icannwiki.org, it is the longest running blog covering the business of domain names, with some great podcast episodes as well. Additionally, he owns and/or manages a series of niche website businesses. Andrew just moved to Seattle, WA and has been a part of the domain [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on May 29, 2019. 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 →

Last week I wrote an article about the auction for a great one-word .COM domain – Culture.com which received a $2.5M bid on Sedo. I think Culture.com could sell for seven figures so this seemed like a great sale in the making. After I wrote my article, [...] Continue reading →

The IETF's DMARC working group is thinking about a maintenance update to the DMARC spec, fixing bits that are unclear and perhaps changing it where what mail servers do doesn't exactly agree with what it says. Someone noted that a lot of mailers claim to have "deployed DMARC," and it's not at all clear what [...] Continue reading →

You won't go far with your cybersecurity when you're relying on the wrong intelligence. This is simply because not all types of threat intelligence are equal. You might have experienced this yourself; investing time and resources into just one only to receive meagre results in the end. Sadly, many organizations fail to realize [...] Continue reading →

Google Adsense continues to move away from text-only ads. Examples of richer Google Adsense ads. Is the Google Adsense text-only ad about to die? Google sent an email to Adsense publishers today detailing some changes to its ads. It says: We’re moving towards richer ad formats, phasing out text-only and display-only ad units to further [...] Continue reading →

A UDRP was filed against the Mamar.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). According to a couple of Spanish to English dictionaries I checked, the word mamar means “to suckle” – as in breastfeed. The UDRP is WIPO Case D2019-1210. The UDRP was filed by an entity called Mamar Group LTD. Although [...] Continue reading →