Hello and happy Sunday! I am currently running a design contest on 99Designs for a new logo for MorganLinton.com. It's a new year and I thought it was time for a little refresh for my logo. I've had 50+ designs submitted so far and the five concepts listed below are my current favorites. Since my […]

Hello, happy Saturday and welcome to Morgan's Flippa Five. This is my first Flippa Five of 2015 so I've made sure to really do some digging today to find four exceptional names and one that I just think is cool. With that, let's get to the names. 3 Domains with good resale potential Pharmaceuticals.com – […]

Well it's official, 2014 is behind us and I now get the joy of writing the date wrong for the first month while I adapt to the fact that it's 2015. Last year was without a doubt one of the most incredible years of our lives and as many of you know I tend to […]

We have recently been going through some testing of different hosting options for Flask. If you don't know what Flask is then this is probably going to be a pretty boring article so you might want to hit the back button. If you do know what Flask is and you want to find the best […]

I was recently talking to another startup founder who is looking at renaming their company. He discovered the world of expired domains and just started buying, and buying, and continued until he had about 20 names. His idea was simple, pick one out of the 20 to brand around and then sell the other 19 […]

It should be no secret that the Chinese domain name market is growing, and fast. While investors from China have already been putting tons of money into buying premium .COMs there's two new domain extensions?that are likely to become the?top investment-grade domain extensions in China,?I'm talking about?.?? and?.??? (.ChineseOnline and .ChineseWebs...

Hello, Merry Christmas, and hello from Texas wine country! Yes, Texas does have a wine country, and yes, as you're expecting the wine is not spectacular. We're not here for the wine, we're here to get away from the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives to enjoy the holidays, cook, walk, listen to music […]

Not a bad early Christmas present for the team over at Ginger.io who announced yesterday that they closed a $20M Series B?and added a new board member from Kaiser Permanente?Ventures. If you haven't heard about Ginger, they are a health analytics startup that is using big data to disrupt the healthcare space. Ginger went through […]

Today TheDomains.com announced that .XYZ is the first new domain name extension to break the 750,000 registrations barrier. It's not secret that the domain community wasn't a fan of the Network Solutions giveaway but looking at the numbers now it's clear that this growth is from something else, it's spreading, people know about .XYZ and […]...

When it comes to the domain industry there are industry players, and there are legends. In my mind Right Of The Dot gets legendary status given that it's run by two of the biggest names in the domain industry, Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens. If you've been following the news lately you also know that […]

Hello, happy Monday, and welcome to Morgan's Flippa Five. I decided to change the day that I publish this post and move it from Friday to Monday (actually I write the post on Sunday and schedule it for Monday). The reason for the change is that I think many of my readers like to unplug […]

Well it's a good day to be Donuts, the domain extension giant just locked down two monster new domain extensions – .NEWS and .CASINO. These were not easy domain extensions to get and Donuts had to outbid Amazon for .NEWS which I think could be one of the?hottest new extensions once it comes out. The […]

Wow, time flies when you're having fun. Today I realized that I missed the seven year anniversary of my blog which took place in October. My very first blog post was on October 18th, 2007 and was titled My First .mobi Flip and represented the beginning of a lot of hard lessons. I quickly learned […]

It's actually pretty darn cool that we live in a world where I can actually pick three new domain extensions every single week, and they keep coming! While not all of the extensions I've picked hit general availability this week they still have important things happening with them that I think are important for people […]

As many of you know I'm a bit of a programming language geek. For a long time (or at least long for me) I've been interested in understanding which programming languages (and dev stacks) are the best for a specific application. In college I spent a lot of time in the world of C and […]

I have talked about this a number of times before but today it was illustrated in a major way. Consumers and the mainstream media still have absolutely no idea what a TLD is. Today TechCrunch, one of the top?tech publications in the world wrote an article about Google.co.uk and yes, they think that?.co.uk is a […]

Another exciting week of new domain extensions is upon us and this week six new extensions are going live five of which are from Frank Schilling's Uniregistry. One of the new extensions .CLICK is also breaking new ground as Uniregistry has decided not to push premium pricing on all but 100 domains which means that […]

Early this week I did a post about my three favorite VC blogs, so I thought it would only make sense to talk about?the other side of the table and share my three favorite startup founder blogs. As a startup founder myself who also blogs I have a ton of respect for founders who take […]

In May we got some very exciting news, we had been accepted into Techstars?Austin. Given that Techstars has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard we were incredibly honored, packed our bags, and headed to Austin for the three month program. Our plan, like most companies going through the program was to return to Los Angeles […]

Over the last five years more and more Venture Capitalists have given entrepreneurs a window into their world through their own personal blogs. I'm pretty sure Fred Wilson takes the cake for?starting this trend and?now it's easier than ever to know what a certain VC thinks about a topic because there's a good chance they've […]...

You've probably seen TLD Registry in the news a lot lately and that's because they have been making news all over the world as they make waves in the Chinese domain market. Given that 20% of the world is Chinese they are hitting a massive market and they just took home the Best Marketing Award […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to my Flippa Five. I have to say that this week Flippa has some of the best domains they've had all year so it was tough to narrow it down to just five. That being said I do think there are some truly exceptional names in my Flippa Five this […]

I will be the first to admit that I am a long-time Nintendo fan. I can still remember getting the original Nintendo for Christmas when I was a kid (yes, I'm old) and from my first game of Super Mario Bros I was sold. At that time Nintendo had literally resurrected gaming console market and […]

So new domain name extensions are launching every week and with so many coming to market I thought it was about time to do a weekly feature of my top picks. Before I go any further let me be really clear about what I am picking these for. I am not picking these domain extensions […]

I have been a big fan of Afternic since I started using them back in 2007, they have a great team and a massive network of partners that makes it easy to get your domain(s) in front of a ton of potential buyers. What you might not know is that Afternic has two different promotion […]

I recently discovered an app that I've found just about every one of my friends uses and I understand why. It's called f.lux and it does something that will actually change your life in a small but meaningful way. To understand what f.lux does I want you to first pay attention to your computer screen […]

Dolphin.org was purchased for $45,000 back in August, it is the largest reported .org sale of 2014.(That sale has now been surpassed by Coin.org at $75,000) The domain was purchased by Right Ventures which was founded by Edith Yeung, the purchase makes sense as Edith is also VP of international business development at Dolphin Browser. […]

The domain name pager.com sold for $45,000 on Sedo this week. The whois just changed and we now know the buyer. The company upgraded from getpager.com and is involved in the health care field. Pager was started in 2013 in New York City by seasoned entrepreneurs Philip Eytan, Gaspard de Dreuzy and Oscar Salazar. Prior […]

Today BetaBeat came-out with an article about .io, a domain extension that has been in a hit in the startup world but that has a bit of a mixed past. While .io does sound catchy and has been very popular within the development community, .io doesn't mean input/output, instead is stands for Indian Ocean, a […]

.NYC has posted some pretty amazing landrush sales numbers out of the gate?with TheDomains.com reporting today a monster sale, Marijuana.nyc selling?for $60,000. There were a lot of other pretty impressive sales and while the auctions apparently were small, there are a few people out there who already see very real value in .NYC domains. Of […...

Today The Economic Times did a story about .OOO with some pretty interesting quotes from the CEO. I wrote about .OOO last week and I definitely don't want to look like I'm picking on them. I'm all for anyone who wants to take a new gTLD and make it something big, at the same time, […]

I'm not sure if the New York Post just isn't plugged-into the domain space or if they are just good buddies with someone over at .LUXURY but over the weekend they shared a story that I really just have to call BS on. Now?I want to be clear, I'm not coming out against .LUXURY, I […]

Breathe Luxury is holding a travel domain auction in London and bringing?a number of premium domains to auction that I thought might catch your eye.?While I've never heard of Breathe Luxury it looks like they own some monster names, here a quick sample of what's going to auction: Holiday.com Dubai.com Journey.com Iraq.com GolfCourses.com LuxuryTrav...

Online publication Datamation just published an article about the new gTLDs and they paint a picture of confusion that seems to be spurred by Verisign. The CFO?of Verisign was quoted as saying: "There is quite a bit of confusion in the marketplace, and I think it's having some effects on the industry as a total […]

One of the big questions in everyone's mind surrounding the new gTLDs is how they?will fare in search engines like Google and Bing. Yesterday The Register took a deep dive into two SEO studies that were done on the new gTLDs that show there could be some meaningful?SEO benefits to putting a site on a […]

This week has some new domain extensions hitting the market that I think will see solid adoption over the next few years. Extensions like .airforce, .army, .vet, and .navy are being launched by Rightside?this week and it's pretty easy to understand who their target market is and why they would be interested in one of […]

So there's a good chance you have a Smart TV sitting in your living room, and your car, well it's probably pretty smart too, oh and that phone in your pocket, Smartphone right? Yes, we are living in a world of "smart" things and the next innovation is something that as a frequent traveler I […]

This is a debate that has been front-and-center in the domain community and will only continue to get more intensely debated as time goes by. Will .COM rise in value and remain the gold standard or will it get lost in the sea of new top level domains? The reason this is such a hot […]

Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to Morgan's Flippa five. Every week I pick five domains from Flippa, three that I think have good resale potential, one that I think has solid development potential, and one I just like. Enjoy and have a great start to your weekend! 3 Domains with good resale potential Truthful.com – […]

If you're a Spotify fan then there's a good chance you know about Playlists.net, if not think of it as one of the top places to share Spotify playlists. The company was originally called ShareMyPlaylists.com but they choose to shorten the name and rebrand to Playlists.net. The company has currently raised a bit under $1M […]

I was talking to another startup founder today about the new domain extensions, and yes, like most startup founders this is someone very far removed from the domain name industry. He said something that got me thinking, "I would only buy short domain extensions, I like the two character extensions the most."? This isn't the […]...

Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to Morgan's Flippa Five. Every week I hand-select five domains, three that I think have good resale potential, one I think could be developed into a kick-ass site, and one name that might not ever sell for a fortune but that I personally like. I have had great feedback on […]

The time has come, .NYC officially launches tomorrow. It has been one of the most-anticipated new domain extensions to hit the market and after the success of similar TLDs like .BERLIN, the bar has been set pretty high. Of course, just like physical real estate in NYC, ownership isn't available to everyone. Only New York […]

There's a storm brewing in Silicon Valley, and it's centered around a race?to become the new standard for sending and receiving payments online.?The world is changing and I'm pretty sure we're all going to look back on things like credit cards and say, "wow, remember when you had to use one of those to pay […]

Boom! It's Friday again and after a full month of travel we are finally back home in Austin. Of course it wouldn't be Friday without my Flippa Five so let's get to it! 3 Domains with good resale potential SAI.com – I love LLL.com's, there aren't many of them that hit the market and this […]

Well it?s official, TRAFFIC is less than 30 days away and that means that Domain Investors around the world are gearing-up for an exciting week of learning, networking, and my favorite ? doing deals. I have been to more domain conferences than I can count on one hand and over the years have learned a […]

I have written about Keen IO before, in case you missed some of my earlier posts about them, they are a fellow Techstars alum that recently raised 11.3M. As with most startups, as more money comes in, more people join the team. Most startups struggle to keep team cohesion as the team grows and startups […]

If you own more than a handful of domains there's a good chance that they are spread across multiple registrars. As time goes by it is easy to lose track of where all your domains are registered and when each expires. Couple this with an old email address at one of your registrar accounts and […]

Startup burn rates are always a hot topic and over the last week some very big names in the startup world have weighed-in to share their opinions. Since I know my blog is read by more than just startup founders I guess now would be a good time to explain what burn rate is. Burn […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to Morgan's Flippa Five!?I hope you all had a great week, enjoy my five picks for this week below: 3 Domains with good resale potential Backups.net – I'm not usually a big .NET guy but the online backup space is huge and has a lot of players. This is a […]