LogicBoxes a Directi company, announced this week that its now power over 5 million domain names. LogicBoxes powers the back end of many registrars and resellers. "Over 20% of the world's ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through our consultancy service" Bhavin Turakhia, CEO & Founder of Directi said in its press release that: "I am proud of the fact that Logicboxes … [Read more...]
RIGHT OF THE DOT.com, My Take On The New gTLD’s: The Next 25 Years & How You Can Profit
As many as you have heard, Monte Cahn the founder of Moniker.com and most recently an Exec with Oversee.net, has joining myself, in a new venture called RIGHT OF THE DOT. RIGHT OF THE DOT can be broadly defined as a consulting company which advises registries on how best to roll out their extensions, including marketing and selling of domains; increase the number of registration of domains; … [Read more...]
Reminder: .Org & .Biz Fees To Rise On April 1: Save Some Money & Renew Now
This is no April's fools joke. The wholesale price of .Org and .Biz registrations and renewals will increase in April 1, 2011, so you might want to renew any of your domains now at the lower price. On April 1 the price of a .Org registration or reneal at the wholesale level will go from $6.75 to $7.21. The price of a .Biz registration or renewal will increase from $6.85 to $7.30. Once … [Read more...]
Google Starts Allowing Users To Block Sites: Worse For Content Farms Or Parked Pages?
According to a post on its blog, Google as of today is allowing users to block sites as they surf. "You’ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your future search results. " "Now when you click a result and then return to Google, you’ll find a new link next to “Cached” that reads “Block all example.com results.” "Once you click the link to “Block all … [Read more...]
Interview With The New Owner Of The World Record Setting Domain Sex.com
The head of Clover Holdings, the buyer of the domain name, Sex.com agreed to do an email interview with TheDomains.com A couple of housekeeping issues. I'm obviously going to keep the person's name confidential. I'm not going to give out hints as to the person's identity. I don't want the comments to this post to turn into a guessing game and therefore I will delete any comment where … [Read more...]
IP Lawyer: “A Domainer Is Someone Who Registers Zillions Of Domains”
In an article written by John B. Farmer an IP attorney in the Richmond Times Dispatch defines Domainers as: "A domainer is someone who registers zillions of domain names to put up automated pay-per-click websites." "These folks deal in high volumes of domain names and big money. They demand premium prices. They usually mask their identities with domain name proxy registration … [Read more...]
DomainSherpa.Com: From A $60 Purchase To A $7,500 Sale: “I Want To Bring More People Into The Industry”
I have noticed over the past few days some consistent traffic coming to TheDomains.com from a new site DomainSherpa.com. DomainSherpa.com which bills its self as "The Domain Name Authority", is the brand child of Michael Cyger. The site launched in January. Mr. Cyger background in publishing. He sold his company CTQMedia.com, in 2008 when it was getting 750,000 unique monthly … [Read more...]