One of the most interesting outcomes of the COVID-19 crisis has been a huge resurgence of telephone calls. While broadband usage is up 40% or more in some markets, the volumes of traditional voice calls have skyrocketed. Verizon says it's now seeing an average of 800 million calls per day, [...] Continue reading →

Savvy domain investors know that Symbolics.com, the first hand-registered .com domain, was marked with a registration date of March 15th, 1985. It was a Friday, and during that same week people in US were listening to “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon, all while in the UK the Dead Or Alive had sent “You [...] Continue reading →

By Alisha Shibli Building a strong professional reputation is crucial if you want to succeed, especially today when there are more candidates than open positions. A strong personal brand not only highlights your professional identity and authority but also opens you up to lucrative opportunities. If you haven’t paid much attention to this yet, now [...] Continue reading →

I have a couple of friends who love Family Guy and regularly cite lines from the popular cartoon television show. Bill Doshier from the .Buzz registry shared a video on LinkedIn from a recent Family Guy episode. During the show, one of the cartoons mentions that his website is FlyOnTheWall.Buzz. Interestingly, that domain name does [...] Continue reading →

Former owner will get domain back through UDRP challenge. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ordered the domain name Joking(.)com be transferred back to its previous owner. A man who said he’s owned the domain name since 1997 filed a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to get it [...] Continue reading →

Sedo has had a very busy year so far, and it’s about to get busier! The world’s largest domain marketplace is accepting applications for keyword domains, for its upcoming auction that takes place between May 21-28, 2020. “Promote the best keyword domains from your portfolio and profit from the highest bid on our premium auction [...] Continue reading →

Like measuring COVID's impact, so too measuring the impact of COVID-related abuse on the Internet is difficult, there are those that would foolishly dismiss the danger entirely, others over-state the problem, perhaps to prompt sales of tools and services. Battling Metrics Using a petite sample of 6,100 registrations at 12 European ccTLDs Peter [...] Continue reading →