Greece just banned 263 domain names to combat online piracy. The Hellenic Copyright Ornanization (OPI) made the decision to ban these domains after a request of the Society for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (EPOE). EPOE is a Greek anti-piracy group representing the interests of major Greek copyright holders. The domain name blocking did not [...] Continue reading →

How domain brokers, buyers, and sellers should act ethically. How should domain name brokers behave? On today’s show, domain buyer broker Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja discusses the role of buyer brokers, seller brokers, and buyers and sellers in domain name transactions. There are a lot of shady things that parties to a transaction [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on September 27, 2020. 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 →

Chinese companies might move their domains from the United States. Domaingang.com reported on September 24 that WeChat.com has recently moved from the USA-based registrar MarkMonitor to the China-based eName. This happened amid the worsening relationship between the USA and China. Naturally, you may wonder whether it is just a single case or other Chinese [...] Continue reading →

I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one [...] Continue reading →

El Gobierno de España a través del Consejo de Ministros, ha actualizado el listado de términos bloqueados y reservados bajo la extensión .eu. Con esta acción se sigue lo establecido en el Reglamento (UE) 2019/517 que vienen a derogar el Reglamento (UE) 733/2002, que tenía un contenido análogo. Cabe reseñar [...] Continue reading →

I’ve been writing this blog for almost thirteen years, and for the vast majority of that time it has been on WordPress. Overall I like WordPress, they have an amazing bevy of both themes and plugins and it’s easy to customize without writing code. At the same time, since I’ve been [...] Continue reading →