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Greece just banned 263 domain names to combat online piracy. The Hellenic Copyright Ornanization (OPI) made the decision to ban these domains after a request of the Society for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (EPOE). EPOE is a Greek anti-piracy group representing the interests of major Greek copyright holders. The …

.Blog will soon release 47,000 3-character “premium” domain names. All 3-character .blog domains were reserved when .blog launched almost 4 years ago. That was simply a very bad move. The hype has since sailed and these domains will not get the same interest they would have at the time of …

Mike Mann reported selling 9 domain names in August for a total of $210,703. Reported prices started at $15,500 and went up to $33,900. Mike Mann sold 9 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $23,411. If you want to further understand Mike Mann’s pricing and sell-through rates …

What the hell are you doing people? These wholesale prices for .io domains are simply ridiculous! You are paying $2k-$5k for bad one-word domains in .io? By bad domains I mean domains that don’t go well with .io AND/OR are unlikely to be chosen by startups as brand names. I …

Another dropped Pirate Bay domain name sold at auction. The domain name PirateBay.org was sold for $50,000 last week and it was one of the highest .org sales in 2020. Yesterday the domain name ThePirateBay.com sold for $35,150. The auction was again held at DropCatch.com that catches and auctions dropped …

Konstantinos Zournas September 18, 2020 Domain Name News, Legal The ICA worked with many domain name attorneys to develop an annotated domain name purchase agreement. “Our goal is to educate domain investors and to benefit the industry as a whole by providing …

Matt Wegrzyn, Founder & CEO of Bodis, announced that Bodis has suspended the partnership with one of their zeroclick ad partners. Here is the complete announcement: “Demonstrating our commitment to improving the quality of advertising in the domain industry and effective immediately, today, we have suspended the partnership with 6 …

DAN and BODIS are partnering on a hybrid monetization-sales landing page. This partnership will allow domain owners to maximize both their sales and ad revenues on their domain names. All of this will take place on a sale-monetization landing page hybrid that fully supports SSL. While this service is still …

A former Pirate Bay domain name was sold for $50,000 in an auction that ended today. The auction was held at DropCatch.com that catches and auctions dropped domain names after they expire. The domain name PirateBay.org was sold for $50,000 and is one of the highest .org sales in 2020. …

GoDaddy acquires SkyVerge, the developer of WooCommerce a WordPress eCommerce plugin. GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyVerge, a leading WooCommerce product developer. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. WordPress powers more than a third of websites on the Internet. …

NamesCon (owned by GoDaddy) quietly removed Neha Gupta from the NamesCon Online “Women in Domaining” session she was originally scheduled to speak at. It happened on Thursday or Friday. I am not sure as I had given up on GoDaddy until someone made a comment that she had been removed …

I will not be attending NamesCon online until Neha Gupta, Domain Investor, Namaxis Pvt. Ltd., is removed from the speakers list or she says she is sorry for the front running she did. I didn’t know that NamesCon accepts front runners and scammers as speakers. Good to know. Also I …

Konstantinos Zournas September 8, 2020 Domain Name News, New gTLDs Radix registry shared its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2020. The report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st January …