Second favorite domain extension Looking around the industry it seems some are bullish on one word .co, others .io, Rob Monster has a big thread on Namepros about being bullish on .org. Who is your number 2? After .com what is your second favorite extension? … [Read more...]
“he can only talk his crap to the dumb poor and deluded”
Do you follow and read Rick Schwartz? One Namepros member believes you are dumb, poor and deluded. So yesterday Donuts started tweeting at Rick Schwartz and promoting their premium new gtld inventory. Donuts tweets Rick tweeted this morning Elliot Silver covered the tweets on his blog and the discussion has spilled over to Namepros with one poster blasting Rick. MSN-Domains … [Read more...]
Supply.co gets $300,000 deal on Shark Tank
So back on October 16, Patrick Coddou announced his company was making the move from GetSupply.com to Supply.co. The back and forth on Twitter was interesting, sometimes funny, along with those who just made a plug to pitch their own services. Coddou also called out the "Domain Bros" and called Shane Cultra an idiot. Shane had tweeted, And tomorrow you will learn what http://O.co and … [Read more...]
Escrow.com releases sales data for Q3 2019
Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index report for Q3-2019 - The total value of domain names transacted rose to US$69.3 million in Q3 2019, up from US$68.6 million in Q2 2019 The report also broke down the ups and downs by different countries. Demand for domain names by country remains volatile: After a strong Q2, China fell sharply in total transaction value for Q3, … [Read more...]
Enom accounts will be moving to Hover
So I received an email just now that Tucows the owner of Enom will be migrating accounts to Hover. IMPORTANT: Your Enom account will be moved to Hover Hello, This is a notice that on November 20 2019, your Enom account and services will be migrated from Enom to Hover. The migration of your services is happening so that Tucows Inc., who owns both Enom and Hover, can … [Read more...]
Namepros takes further steps to protect it’s moderators
Namepros has made a change with regards to moderator identifiers, amidst threats spelled out in the post below, Namepros smartly has moved to mod team id's. In March of 2018 Eric Lyon was receiving threats and had his role changed at Namepros. In February of 2017 Namepros reached 1million discussions and it sucks to see things get to this level. I was a mod there for 12 years but I cannot say … [Read more...]
Afternic provides some details on markup test
Here is another update on the markup opt out process on Afternic. Namepros member Stub was kind enough to post the reply he received when he opted out. As you have requested we have removed your domain listings from all Afternic resellers that are adding a markup to your BIN price. Your domains will no longer be provided to markup test resellers from Afternic. We appreciate you sharing … [Read more...]