Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in December, ranked by number of downloads:

Amidst the back and forth mincing of dialogue concerning a private equity firm, Ethos Capital, purchasing the .org registry, ICANN and Verisign turn heads and make news headlines with its “pay to play” move to increase .com prices.

Domain investing blogs — DomainNameWire.com, DomainInvesting.com, TheDomains.com, OnlineDomain.com, RicksBlog.com, DNIncite.com, and many others — have long sounded the alarm about Verisign’s pure play for billions of dollars — $2 billion dollars based on back-of-napkin math — in profit, dating back to mid 2018 and earlier.

While old news to most domain industry professionals, Verisign’s latest bribe and ICANN’s abdication of price regulator to the U.S. government places domain investors dead center in the crosshairs of slight to complete elimination.

It’s hard to believe that another year has come and gone, and with it, a decade too.

The sky is the limit in 2020, and the future is quite bright for all aspects and persons in the domain industry.

It’s that time of the year to look back to see how those lofty predictions actually turned out.

For 2019, I made 9 predictions pertaining to domain sales, new domain extensions, bloggers, conferences, and the overall economics of the domain industry in general.

While on Christmas break this week (if you can call it a break) , I’m catching up on my tech reading and stumbled upon a Washington Post article about the .TV contract set to renew in 2021.

STAR Labs, also known as Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs, launched a mysterious product just weeks away from CES 2020 called NEON.

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With over 8 figures in completed domain name transactions for a growing global clientele, MediaOptions.com truly stands head and shoulders above the rest.