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When did you quit your day job? Seriously. If you own your own hosting business, I want to know when you quit your day job. How long did it take before you were comfortable to get out from underneath the thumb of working for someone else and launch your career as a hosting reseller? If […]
Registry giant Donuts Inc. have made history as they have acquired the “.reise” top-level domain name, the first to be sold with live websites attached to it. The Register out of the United Kingdom reports that Donuts purchased “.reise” — which is German for “travel” — at an auction. How much they paid is unknown […]
Protect your brand. This core principle is something we preach at length here at NameHero.com. In 2015, things are changing dramatically as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is altering the way we look at domains by introducing more than 1200 new domain suffixes with more than 1200 to come. In prior […]
Google has acquired the exclusive rights to the “.app” top-level web domain for a cool $25 million, Business Insider reported on Thursday. ICANN has been auctioning off different domains going back to last summer, drawing stiff competition from the likes of Amazon (that bought “.buy” for $4,588,888) and Dot Tech LLC (that dropped $6,760,000 for […]