Organizers nix January in-person event. It's been a tough couple of years for live event organizers due to the coronavirus. The last in-person NamesCon event was in January 2020. Some people canceled at the last minute due to the burgeoning ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Companies help people stop wasting money on COVID-19 domain names
· Domain RegistrarsCompanies are making it harder to register and sell crisis-related domains. You should thank them. Domain name registrar Namecheap has stopped allowing domain names including the words coronavirus, covid, and vaccine from being registered through ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Saving your business in this downturn – DNW Podcast #278
· PodcastsTake these steps now to survive the bust. Warren Coughlin, a business coach to entrepreneurs, has been through a lot of downturns. On this week’s show, Warren shares his experience steering a business through the dot-com bust. He has some great, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Fox creates dedicated site—on dedicated domain—for coronavirus news
· UncategorizedCompany registers .com and .fox domains for news site. This morning, as I perused lists of recently registered domains, I noticed that Fox media registered the domain name Coronavirus.fox. .Fox is the company's dot-brand top level domain name, ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Buy a domain and get a free mask—and a gun
· UncategorizedThis domain name registrar has an interesting promotion to combat the novel coronavirus. When you watch news about China these days, you may often see a masked nurse pointing a gun at a patient's forehead. It's not a real gun but actually an ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Virus domain name registrations surge with novel coronavirus fears
· UncategorizedAnother crisis, another surge in domain registrations. If Verisign still published its monthly lists of top trending keywords (it stopped with August's list), 'virus' would certainly be on the list. According to Verisign DomainScope, .com and ... Continue Reading8 Comments
ICANN cancels another event due to Covid-19
· Policy & LawSaudi Arabia event postponed over virus fears. ICANN has canceled a second event scheduled for March due to travel restrictions and fears over Covid-19, a coronavirus. The Middle East DNS Forum, scheduled for March 24-25 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ICANN moves Spring Break online over Coronavirus fears
· Policy & LawICANN goes virtual, INTA moves to the U.S. There will be no cavorting with college students on the beach in Cancun next month for domain policy wonks after all. ICANN, the organization that oversees domain names, has moved its March meeting ... Continue Reading1 Comment