Registrar will cease offering domains with biggest real price increases. Tucows, the second largest domain name registrar, will cease offering nine of Uniregistry's top level domain names this September after their annual fees skyrocket. The company ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Top 5 Domain Name Stories from March
· UncategorizedNew TLD price changes dominated the discussion. The first quarter of 2017 is now in the books, and the initial tax deadline in the U.S. is quickly approaching (yikes!). But before we think about taxes, here's a look back at what happened in the domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy comments on Uniregistry pricing change
· Domain RegistrarsRegistrar is happy about grandfathering, but still has issues with Uniregistry price hikes. This morning, Uniregistry announced some changes to its planned price hikes that take effect in September. Most notably, existing registrations in nine of ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Uniregistry backtracks on price hike on existing registrations
· Domain RegistrarsCompany will grandfather existing registrations in many new TLDs. New top level domain name registry Uniregistry is backtracking on its plans to significantly increase prices on existing registrations this September. Last month, the company ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Frank Schilling explains price hike – DNW Podcast #127
· PodcastsSchilling explains why he decided to increase prices on some of Uniregistry's TLDs. Frank Schilling's Uniregistry created an uproar last week when news leaked that the company was preparing to drastically increase the cost of some of its domains as ... Continue Reading60 Comments
Here are Uniregistry new TLD prices
· UncategorizedThis is how much registrars will pay Uniregistry for TLDs after the price change. I've written a lot this week about Uniregistry's upcoming price change. I'll have Frank Schilling on my podcast Monday to discuss in greater detail. Below are the ... Continue Reading29 Comments
Is .Guitars a failed TLD? Take a look under the covers.
· ServicesIn light of Uniregistry's price hike, I decided to get a better view into one of its low-volume TLDs. Uniregistry is getting ready to jack up the price of many of the top level domain names it operates, especially vertical TLDs with low ... Continue Reading19 Comments
Yikes! Is this a death spiral for new top level domain names?
· UncategorizedMassive price hike for Uniregistry domains will be very bad for business. A big shoe has dropped. DomainIncite reported today that Uniregistry (the registry, not registrar) is getting ready to jack up the prices on many of its domain names. ... Continue Reading68 Comments
Why you might not be getting many Uniregistry Market offers
· Domain ParkingYou need to take this added step. I've added a lot of domains I won in expired auctions to Uniregistry over the past few months. I added the names and changed the nameservers. Done, right? Wrong. It turns out that adding domains to Uniregistry ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Uniregistry just released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names
· UncategorizedMost are available at standard registration prices, including about 1.5 million .click domains. At 1 PM EDT today, domain name registry Uniregistry released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names to its registrar channel, meaning anyone can ... Continue Reading5 Comments