Recent content by Bob Hawkes

Of course many places show prices of domain names in the local currency, but it is nice to be able to set it so that you can make the pricing look truly in that currency through rounded or charm pricing levels. There is one thing I hope they will change. To the right of the currency options...

Yeah, this was embarrassing, but you could do exactly what I was requesting at Dynadot long before my post. Here are the steps if anyone else is interested: 1. First, in your Dynadot account set it to the currency you want to be the base one for the name, CDN$ in my case. You find this on top...

Thanks for the heads-up @MapleDots. I've been a little less active several places this last month, including here. Yes, I have a WLM on Atom, now at the site: The creative place to name or rename! - rename.ca. I am not sure that it drives much domain interest, but it was literally seconds to...

I like the minimal landers, and have set all of the names I have pointed at Atom to them. While descriptions probably added to some domain names, to most they were irrelevant or more. I like that the minimal takes away the obvious category links that lead people off to explore other names. I...

Quite the move! Best wishes! Look forward to hearing about your journey going forward here. -Bob

I had not seen anything about Efty moving away from subscription model, but maybe have missed it somehow. I wonder if there is possibly confusion with DomainIO that has announced they are moving from a subscription to a commission model? -Bob

I think right now Efty Pay is 5% if you are bringing your lead say from your own marketplace, or selling directly from your lander if you have an Efty account, and 12.5% if it sells via someone finding the name on the Efty Marketplace. This page has a good summary: What is the commission fee...

It is disappointing, both the integrator down as of today, but also their plans to, it seems, totally abandon the platform at some point, possibly not that much in future (I don't know of precise date, but some are talking as early as this quarter). I like many things about Dan and it will be a...

"I think so but it has so many barriers, who uses it and why?" I could well be wrong, but I think it is not that anyone chooses to use it, but rather it is the default GoDaddy applies to domain names that do not have DNS set to something else (e.g. in period after acquisition before they get...

It would appear that the most recent change in Google policies will make domain parking even less attractive. Google just dealt another blow to domain name parking Google just dealt another blow to domain name parking - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

I agree. That is the point Drew Rosener has been hammering on Domain Sherpa and X as well (well between having an amazing trip to southeast Asia). We have not yet seen any pullback in .ai, but it has to come, since as you say, it is redundant when every company uses ai tools to think you need...

Thanks for posting article, @silentg ! I am planning/expecting a follow up article once I have some answers to questions, maybe Thursday or Friday this week. It continues to evolve somewhat, probably nature of testing whatever their goals are, but it appears that much of the time it is hard...

I think there are bound to be massive drops in .ai at some point, simply because so many of the names I see listed are so weak. But I think the extension has achieved enough real world use that it is now in the list of TLDs that startup founders consider. I recently looked at the names and...

I think the primary advantage that GD/Afternic/Dan et al. have is the FT premium registrar network. Therefore, I hope we will always have Sedo MLS just so there is not a monopoly in that. It is really unfortunate that Dofo stopped (or well became something else). Something like that that...

You do realize she has repeatedly said she has only a single registry premium .xyz name? I don't follow how saying she does not invest in premiums helps the registry sell premium names to investors. The math of premium renewals for .xyz does not work for investors, I think. That is why many...