Allegravita published a paper that looks to be a bit troubling for registries looking to do business in China moving forward. The Chinese government is looking to regulate the Chinese domain industry…
Category: Domain Industry
Afnic: “2017, year of consolidation for the domain name market?”
Afnic published a report that looked at consolidation in 2017 for legacy tlds. The report looks at retention rates for legacy tlds and cctlds. Projections are put forward relating to annual creations…
ICA Sounds The Alarm: Tell ICANN No to URS at .Travel – Or It Will Travel to .Com
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (the “ICA) just published a post, sounding a very loud alarm, to head off what would be the first step that would make all .Com…
This Guy Want You To Pay A Tax On “Parked” ‘Unused” Or “Idle” Domains
In a story published by Circleid.com written by Alex Tajirian, CEO at DomainMart, Mr. Tajirian suggests that all parked, “unused” or “idle” pages need to have a Tax imposed on them to…
Rick Schwartz Maybe “Retired” But He Is Still The Domain King & Still Schooling Them Up
A lot of people in the domain world miss Rick Schwartz since he retired. His “Biggest Fan” who writes onlinedomain.com openly stated last week he was eagerly waiting for a new post…
GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green
General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies…
MSNBC Covers Domains & The Presidential Election Calling it #Domaingate
MSBNC.com weighed in on the domain name side of the Presidential race today in a post highlighting all of domain purchases, miscues and game playing, which now apparently includes HillaryClinton.net “On Sunday,…