It’s always interesting to travel back through time, and examine the lifecycle and events of a trending topic, especially when it relates to domains. Now having been entrenched or involved with domains for the last 7-8 years, I find that the domain industry is not an exception. There have been a number of trends — blockchain, crypto, bitcoin, 4L .coms, numeric, and emoji domains to name a few — … [Read more...]
Someone needs to stop Roy Flanders’ domain names from expiring
Hopefully Enom or someone else can step up but the domains of a domain investor who passed away are expiring and it needs to stop. Ron Jackson wrote about Roy Flanders back in December of 2016. sadly Roy passed away. I did not know the man personally but for those that did he seemed to be really a great guy. In 2012 he donated $250,000 to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital's Annual Fund. It was a … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – NameSilo – 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also … [Read more...]
Can NameSilo hold off GoDaddy?
Every 18 months or so there has been a best registrar poll on Namepros. GoDaddy won the last two, the last one was closer with @namesilo coming in second, 253 votes vs 191 or 29.8% vs 22.5%. The previous big poll saw GoDaddy run away with it 303 votes or 52%. This time around NameSilo and Dynadot are the leaders, NameSilo has a decent lead with 26% of the vote. Dynadot is actually second and … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by PreSale.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and PreSale.com led the way at $45,444. Hero.eu was second at 29,000 Euros, ($32,524). 42 .com sales 8 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Happy.info sold for $10,000. Domain … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Uniregistry 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also encouraged. One … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – GoDaddy 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also encouraged. One … [Read more...]
