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Dying free-domains registry Freenom has shut down at least 12.6 million domains across three of its TLDs, according to research from Netcraft. Netcraft’s latest web server survey shows that the domains — across .tk, .cf and .gq — no longer resolve, according to the company. That’s 98.7% of the resolving domains Freenom had a [...] Continue reading
ICANN has published what could be the next version of GoDaddy’s .xxx registry contract, and is framing it as very much open to challenge. The proposed Registry Agreement would scrap the “sponsored” designation from .xxx, substantially reduce GoDaddy’s ICANN fees, and implement the strictest child-protection measures of any gTLD, as well as make ICANN Compliance’s [...] Continue reading
The annual Global Domain Report, produced jointly by InterNetX and Sedo, has been released and is now available to download at no cost. The 80 page, data-heavy report offers an in-depth view of the domain name industry – both from the perspective of domain investors and from industry providers. The report covers a multitude of [...] Continue reading
InterNetX spends a great deal of time and effort each year to produce their Global Domain Report. This year there is a large emphasis on A.I both the technology and .ai domain names. There is a lot of data, comments from industry participants including Andrew from DNW, Elliot at DomainInvesting.com, Page Howe, Theo from DomainGang.com, [...] Continue reading
Grok is a generative AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company, xAI. Grok has been promoted within the X / Twitter ecosystem, and X users who subscribe to X Premium are able to access Grok. Over the weekend, domain investor and developer Peter Askew shared Grok’s response to a query about selecting a domain name [...] Continue reading
Today: BestArtPrompt.com Evaluation / Looking for Dot Ai Domains – Budget $1,000 / Neva.com Sold for $29,500 and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: BestArtPrompt.com Evaluation – How would you value this domain in today’s market? I can see this one being [...] Continue reading
Today: Nbaex.com Evaluation / Looking for Dot Com Domain – Budget $750 Per Domain / UNB.com Sold for $37,700 and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Nbaex.com Evaluation – What do you think of this short domain name? Would you [...] Continue reading