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Domain Trading: How to sell a domain name

Does a web address have a price? Yes, you can make money with domains. If the demand is high enough, you can even make high profits through domain trading. However, it’s not enough to just own any web address and hope for the best. To suc­cess­ful­ly buy and sell domains, there are…

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ICANN vs. Verisign, what’s the dif­fer­ence?

Nowadays, it’s easier than ever to register a web address. Simply fill out a request for the domain you want and submit it to a web hosting provider, and the rights to the address may be yours in next to no time. But what happens behind the scenes? We’ll take a look at the…

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Why is the dot.tk domain so popular?

A small, remote island nation in the South Pacific is a major player in the domain business. On the Pacific islands of Tokelau lives a pop­u­la­tion of about 1,400 people on just over four square miles of tropical paradise. There are, however, over 25 million reg­is­tered domains with…

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The digital election: domain grabbing in politics

The internet has com­plete­ly changed political elections across the world. Online media offers can­di­dates the chance to get closer to their voters, providing an essential com­mu­ni­ca­tion channel for the electoral bat­tle­ground. But the freedom of in­for­ma­tion online means that you’re…

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.web sold to Nu Dot Co – for 135 million US dollars

How much is the top-level domain .web worth to the US company, Nu Dot Co? $135 million to be precise! The auction that took place in July 2016 saw ICANN take home a record-breaking sum for the popular generic top-level domains (gTLD). There were seven other com­peti­tors in the…

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Reg­is­ter­ing an emoji domain – the way forward or just a gimmick?

Emoji domains im­me­di­ate­ly catch your eye. Why continue to register normal domains when you can get the message across with a few smileys? Reg­is­ter­ing a smiley URL doesn’t come without its problems though. In this article, we explain what is needed to set up an emoji URL, and…

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Expired domains – a success story from the US about expired websites

Buying expired domains can be a prof­itable business – just look at this example from the US. Uni­ver­si­ty graduate, Cameron Harris, was able to earn more than $20,000 with an expired domain. But how did Harris actually make this small fortune? This article reveals what happened.

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What are blockchain domains?

The Domain Name System (DNS) ensures that we can use domain names instead of IP addresses to surf the Internet. But the web now has some stiff com­pe­ti­tion in the form of the blockchain. Blockchain domains are de­cen­tral­ized and are not managed by a single or­ga­ni­za­tion. Another…

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What is an NFT domain?

While tra­di­tion­al websites and online stores with domain names ending with .com or .co.uk are hosted across central servers, NFT domains provide entirely new pos­si­bil­i­ties. Not only is the ending different but an NFT domain is stored in a de­cen­tral­ized manner and is based on…

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What is RDAP? The new WHOIS protocol

The re­place­ment of WHOIS with RDAP marks an important step in the de­vel­op­ment of the internet. RDAP provides more data pro­tec­tion, higher flex­i­bil­i­ty and is better suited to the future. For domain holders, the switch mostly brings benefits without requiring any action. In this…

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