I'm sure many of you have heard chatter about a Bitcoin fork. Whilst some may have a good understanding of what this means, there are probably many of you that are a little confused. I will try my best to provide some clarity on the matter. Essentially, there are two possibilities, a hard fork or a soft fork. Before I explain the difference, let us address the reason for the fork in the first … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by AcaiBerry.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and AcaiBerry.com led the way at $18,000. BuTV.com was the second highest sale, LLtv is a niche I have traded in for a long time, I kinda stopped focusing on them over the last year. Nice to see a $15,000 sale. Very light sales in cctld and other new gtlds. No new gtld sales this week. Domain … [Read more...]
GDS awards most popular new gTLDs of China
.Shop (an advertiser on TheDomains) was one of the new gtlds that won most popular new gtld of China at the Global Domain Summit. Proud to bring home the "The most popular new gTLD of China" award from @gdschina What an honor - thank you! #GDS pic.twitter.com/QG7JWNSZYq — .shop TopLevelDomain (@shoptld) July 11, 2017 Another sponsor of ours Radix won for .online. The other winners … [Read more...]
Taking over four of the seven authoritative nameservers for the .io TLD
Matthew Bryant @IAmMandatory of TheHackerBlog.com wrote a very detailed post on how he was able to register domains in .io that would essentially allow him to take over authoritative nameservers for the .io cctld. It's a very interesting post and shows many registries need to beef up their security protocols. From the article: Impact Given the fact that we were able to take over four of … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Health Ends Sunrise Period With 287 Registrations
The .health registry ended their 60-day Sunrise period on Friday, June 7th, with a total of 287 total applications, none of which were in contention, so there will be no sunrise auctions for .health. All domains will be provisioned on Monday evening, July 10th. Jose Rasco, CEO of dotHealth said: “As an extension, we are focused on building a meaningful space. Combined with the fact that … [Read more...]
Domain Research Group takes a look at emoji domains in .com
Domain Research Group the people behind I❤️.ws, was nice enough to go through the .com zone file and identify all the emoji names that exist in .com. There are 233 in total, (currently emojis are unable to be registered in gtlds like com,net and org). We’re defining “emoji” very loosely here… it’s more interesting to see the wider array of weird characters in dotcom domains than to get too … [Read more...]
Post the best name you have for sale for $1,000 or less
The best name you have for sale for $1,000 or less This post should be used to sell a name where you are making some money with no commission, and leave a little for the next buyer. So this post is for the best name you are willing to sell right now with a $1,000 max price. 1 name listed only. There have been a few who have tried to post more names using a different email address/name same IP … [Read more...]
