Looking back on 2018 there were a lot of interesting stories. A lot of big companies picking up premium .com names, and businesses built on premium names. The Domain King left Twitter and came back to blogging. Mike Mann claimed he was the real domain king. A domain theft kept the attention of many a reader on Namepros riveted to their screens for weeks. Verisign called us all scalpers before … [Read more...]
Should end users be named and shamed?
So one of the more active threads this week at Namepros, is about naming and shaming end users who back out of deals. The thread is actually the 2.0 version due to the first thread being closed as the OP decided to dox the person they had a problem with. There are many things to consider and some that I did not see touched upon in the thread. This was a thread about end users, not other domain … [Read more...]
TheDomains.com turns 11
We are celebrating the 11th anniversary of TheDomains.com. Michael Berkens started this journey with the following post back in 2007. The domains.com is now live. We are throwing our hat into the ring, to blog about all things domain. We acknowledge and thank some of the brilliant thinkers who are already blogging about the domain name industry. Many of those blogs appear under our links … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB for Q3: Internet Grows to 342.4 Million Domain Name Registrations
Verisign released their DNIB report for the third quarter of 2018. Q3 2018 closed with approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2018. .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 151.7 million domain … [Read more...]
Undeveloped.com decides to step up and help domainer
I wrote a post a couple days ago about a complicated situation that took place across multiple platforms. Two 5N.coms were purchased on GoDaddy auctions in early September, that person actually used a credit card that was no good. That person sold the names to a Namepros member for $550, on Undeveloped. $190 less than they won the names at GoDaddy.T That member then sold those names for $700 to … [Read more...]
Efty powers up domain payments potential with new tech from Escrow.com
Efty and Escrow.com announced a new payment integration system. Doron Vermaat who most domainers know both as co-founder of Efty and the published of DNGeek.com wrote, "With Escrow Pay, we remove a lot of friction from the escrow process because buyers are now redirected to a wizard on Escrow.com where they can complete an escrow transaction in a few easy steps." Full Release: SAN FRANCISCO, … [Read more...]
One clusterf*ck of a transaction
So there is one helluva back and forth about a deal gone awry on Namepros. But it didn't just go awry in one place and tears at the constructs of many beliefs people have about different parts of the domain industry. I remember during the CQD.com episode many people asked me, "Doesn't using escrow protect me from buying stolen domains?" Short answer, NO! Platforms will protect their client … [Read more...]