I have always had a doubt about various domain auction houses and their policies on domain auctions in general. If you think about it, these companies can do whatever they want. There is no control body in place to monitor their dealings. They can keep the expired domains they […] Continue Reading…
I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 132expired domains today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to subscribe to my FREE newsletter. My newsletter is free and you can subscribe at any time […] Continue Reading…
Following yesterday’s approval of a controversial move to loosen restrictions on new domain extensions (gTlds), domaining control bodies IANA and ICANN had their domains hijacked.
Under the alias “NetDevilz”, a group of hackers temporarily hijacked the sites of the key organizations and redirected them to a taunting page.
Visitors to the […] Continue Reading…
According to the BBC, ICANN today approved the proposed changes to the gTld Naming System.
The new rules remove previous restrictions that kept companies, individuals and countries to a limited set of domain extensions (.com, .edu, .net, .uk etc). Under the new rules, domain extensions can up to 64 characters […] Continue Reading…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board is meeting today to decide on two key proposals.
The first proposal is the long awaited move to allow non Latin charactered gTlds, meaning domain names using Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic letters ( full domain names including extensions ). The […] Continue Reading…
I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 111 expired domains today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to subscribe to my FREE newsletter. My newsletter is free and you can subscribe at any […] Continue Reading…
GoDaddy.com domain registrar has announced that it has just reached 30 Million domain registrations.
Go Daddy claims to be registering, renewing and transferring domain names at the rate of of about one every second of every day. This flies in the face of critics who, years ago, suggested the surge […] Continue Reading…
