Increase revenue and customer conversion by implementing a few smart inbound marketing strategies. Here are 6 things you can do today: 1. Follow your brand – Your website should follow along with the way your brand looks and feels to the customer. The overall message of what sets your business apart from competitors should flow seamlessly [...] Continue reading →

The Great Renaming was a significant event in Usenet history since it involved issues of technology, money, and governance. From a personal perspective — and remember that this series of blog posts is purely my recollections — it also marked the end of my "official" involvement in "running" Usenet. I put "running" in quotation marks [...] Continue reading →

Russia's Ministry of Communications has announced that it has successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global Internet and that general users did not notice any changes. How it works: "The initiative involves restricting the points at which Russia's version of the net connects to its global counterpart, giving the government more control over what [...] Continue reading →

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Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 5.1 million domain name registrations, or 1.4 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2019.1,2 Domain name registrations have grown by 17.4 [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 26, 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 →