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Drop Catching

Drop catching is the practice of attempting to register valuable domain names immediately after they are deleted from the registry and become available for registration.

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GDPR

GDPR is an acronym that stands for General Data Protection Regulation. This is a law enforced by the European Union since May 2018, aimed at giving EU citizens control over their personal data and ...

Mil

The .mil domain is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) that is used exclusively by the U.S. Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. Its name is derived from the first ...

Acronym

Acronym Names refer to domain names that are made up of the initial letters of multiple words. These types of domains are typically short, usually 2-4 characters long, and are highly valued due to ...

Transfer

Transfer is a term you'll encounter frequently. It refers to the process of changing the registrant or registrar of a specific domain name. There are two main types of transfers in the domain na...

IPv6

As a professional domain name investor, "IPv6" is a term that's important to understand to fully comprehend the internet infrastructure. IPv6 stands for Internet Protocol Version 6. It is the ...

Domain Propagation

The time it takes for DNS changes to a domain to be recognized across all internet servers globally.