Kate Spade : When your name is your personal brand

The untimely demise of fashion designer, Kate Spade, serves as a reminder about personal success and the intricacies of personal life; never take either one for granted. Kate Spade's entrepreneurial acumen helped pave the way for many other women and men, to "go solo" against the establishment of … [Read more...]

ICANN + GDPR = NoWHOIS

Welcome to the brave new domaining world, devoid of actual WHOIS information. The GDPR is officially the most damaging bureaucratic concoction ever created about digital information, effectively dividing the Internet into two large zones: one available to Eurozone members, and one that can be … [Read more...]

GDPR and domain sales mandate the use of Escrow.com Concierge

With the upcoming onslaught of the GDPR - a European Union approach to data privacy that wasn't vetted by American organizations - the domain industry is about to lose yet another battle. So far, ICANN has been unable to come to a consensus regarding WHOIS policies under the GDPR. It seems that … [Read more...]

Domain offers : Minimum asking price is just that

Pricing domain names with a "minimum asking price" is an indication of least value. It is not, however, a selling price, and some domain buyers don't seem to understand that. At a time and era that domain name valuation becomes relevant when it arrives from a human, as opposed to an automated … [Read more...]

Domain inquiries : Email autoresponders can reveal your identity, and more

When making domain inquiries through a platform that can be semi-anonymous, the other party can receive more information than you originally planned to give away. For example, even if you gave out a partial or even false name, it's linked to an email address. It's quite possible that by using … [Read more...]