2013 was a good year.  Twitter held their IPO, Apple debuted the new iPhone 5S, the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl (The Editor disagrees that this is a good thing), Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge was born, and Name.com launched the brand new Domain Management tools. Six years ago these domain tools [...] Continue reading →

A recent investigative report reveals disturbing trend with amending legacy registry agreements This past Monday, as ICANN65 was beginning in Marrakesh, the technical review blog Review Signal published a detailed expose, "The Case for Regulatory Capture of ICANN” authored by site founder and "geek-in-charge" Kevin Ohashi. The post was clearly the product of [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on June 27, 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 gave a talk at NamesCon Europe in Portugal about how to better track your domain sales funnel using my new favorite CRM Pipedrive. For my first five or so years in the domain industry I didn’t have any system for tracking my domain sales funnel. [...] Continue reading →

There have been some stellar six, seven and eight-figure one-word .COM domain sales recently and whilst some, such as the $30 million Voice.com sale, have been disclosed publicly, there are plenty of deals happening behind the scenes. One such recent deal looks to be Orion Advisor Solutions' (Orion) acquisition of the premium one-word [...] Continue reading →

An update on some sales that actually didn’t take place and Michael from Namebio has been contacted so he will remove them from Namebio. I wrote about Roy Flanders’ names expiring after GreatNames.com sold for $25,000 and echecking.com sold for $1,325 on GoDaddy auctions. I confirmed that Roy’s daughter was able to recover the names [...] Continue reading →

Economists at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Oklahoma State University conducted a study that correlates broadband speeds to unemployment. They concluded that unemployment rates are 0.26% lower in counties with faster broadband. They further concluded that broadband has a bigger impact on jobs in rural areas than in metropolitan ones. The [...] Continue reading →