BrandBucket sent out their September newsletter, and while I know some readers believe if you don’t get the actual names that sold it’s worthless, I respectfully disagree. I would like the names too but I do believe any data you can attain has some value attached to it and is worth the read. Takeaways: When […]
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The world’s biggest AI startup is from China but its domain is not .cn
My college days at The Chinese University of Hong Kong were about fun, friends, and sometime aimless activities. Yet, to some, it’s a place to germinate great ideas. Take Xiaoou TANG and Li XU, a CUHK professor and a PhD student respectively who in 2014 had an “aha!” moment and founded the AI startup SenseTime. […]
Continue Reading7 Common Pitfalls of Domain Leasing
When most people think of leasing, they tend to think of common things such as vehicles, buildings and land to name a few. But what most fail realize is that domain names are high on the list of things to be frequently leased. Although leasing is nothing new under the sun, domain lease agreements often […]
Continue ReadingVerisign trending keywords for August – CryptoCurrency, Fan and Bets
Verisign released the trending keywords for August and it was mostly a random group of names. CryptoCurrency was 10th in .com, with Football coming back fan and bets made the top ten. .COM .NET fan hotels grid hard grad apps email canna shorting bull bets pink orthodontists guy fabric pocket goose gifts cryptocurrency professional
Continue ReadingBranding 2.0 and domains
Image courtesy of various brands While traditional branding (Branding 1.0) focuses on “what”, domains add the “where” dimension to it. Well, I must say that I’m not a branding expert, so my knowledge about branding may be limited. As I understand, Branding 1.0 is about associating a brand with “what”. When you think of a […]
Continue ReadingWTF Domains volume 1
Welcome to the first edition of WTF? Domains. A look at the ridiculous, the funny, the sometimes obscene. Domains that make you go WTF? Here is the first list of names that have expired that I have been compiling, future posts will be the previous weeks names. Some of the names were registered for over […]
Continue ReadingThe Chinese domain strategy of Walmart
Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The “one .com to rule them all” domain strategy […]
Continue ReadingIn 2017 I asked – Could we do a domain auction here on Twitter? The replies were mixed
Twitter auctions have no consequences for bad or illegal behavior There was a secondary discussion point in a post on Namepros about auction houses. @MetBob mentioned he saw that Daryl Lopes auctioned a name off on Twitter and thought it was a good idea. He wrote: For those on Twitter, I see that right now […]
Continue ReadingWhy do Chinese companies like acronym domains?
China is the largest owner of liquid domains according to the quarterly market report by GGRG.com. These are very short .com domains such as LL (letter-letter), NN (number-number), and LN (letter-number) .com which can be sold at any time because of a large pool of ready buyers. In this article, I’ll focus on the acronym […]
Continue ReadingOne Critical Action to Take Before Starting a Blog
While settling down and preparing for the next day, I took a quick break to visit Domaining.com to discover any breaking domain industry news. If you’re not familiar with Domaining.com, it’s a curation of publishers and bloggers that produce newsworthy content in regards to the domain industry news. In fact, you’ll likely find a few […]
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