It looks like Payoneer is shutting down it's escrow service. The page is still up for escrow. https://www.payoneer.com/escrow/domain-names/ According to DomainMarketPro.com We just received an email notice moments ago from a representative of Payoneer that “Payoneer is discontinuing our escrow business”. This appears to be effective immediately. Help is offered to “successfully transition our … [Read more...]
Some new domainers feel they know more than the veterans
It's no surprise to anyone following the blog space that Rick Schwartz has been hitting the new gtld's pretty hard lately, One of many examples includes: Rick wrote: Most products may have 1 or 2 weak points. GTLD's have 122 weak points! They sold you a bag of shit and you ate it like Filet Mignon! That's the ugly truth, deal with it! GTLD's took a thriving industry and derailed it. Did not … [Read more...]
Sedo will have a scheduled system wide downtime June 30
Sedo will be having a little down time this Saturday so don't freak out, this is planned. The company tweeted: On Saturday, June 30 we will move our servers to a new data center. There will be a system-wide down time on Sedo's website. This will approximately last for 3 hours. We’ll be back online around 6AM EST. More information is in your Sedo account login area. #takeabreak #downtime — … [Read more...]
French State wins dispute with regards to ‘France.com’ trademark
Worldipreview.com published an article (initially posted on TBO) that the France.com tm case has been resolved in favor of the French state. From the article: In December 2014, the French State opposed the application based on its figurative international registration for ‘France’ (number 1032440) where the word appears underneath an image of the Eiffel Tower, with a French flag in the middle … [Read more...]
first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains
Verisign released their Q1 2018 Domain Name Industry Brief Of note was the decrease in new gtld registrations, they actually showed a decrease of 400,000 names. Some statistics from the report: The first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 1.4 million domain name registrations, or … [Read more...]
Tough Domain Launches Intelligent Domain Marketplace to Buy and Sell Domains
ToughDomains.com currently offers domain tools such as for sale landing pages to help domain investors sell their domain names. We have recently launched a new domain marketplace. A marketplace to help domain Investors sell more, a marketplace to help Startups find the right name for their latest project. They can now find premium domains for sale through our new intelligent domain … [Read more...]
How would new players have done back in the day?
So there have been some good discussions about old timers and how they would do today, or if they are still relevant? An article I wrote on TLDinvestors got a lot of engagement both on the blog and on Namepros. A lot of the comments focused on Rick, some gave great praise, others went the other way with a gem like this: These days Rick is more out of touch with the domain industry than … [Read more...]
