Cybersquatters. They drive me absolutely crazy, and I'm not alone. Before I go-into ways in which startups can get their names back from squatters I wanted to clearly define what a Cybersquatter is. First things first. There's a big difference between "Domain Investors" and "Cybersquatters" – confusion between these two groups can lead you do...

It's no secret that .CLUB has been one of the top new domain name extensions (new gTLDs) to hit the market. Along with being the first new extension to hit 100,000 paid registrations they also have seen very strong adoption from entrepreneurs all over the world. As many of you know, what excites me the […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to Morgan's Flippa five. In case you missed last week's post I've changed things around from the "Flippa Friday" I've been doing for some time now and have now decided to stick with five picks in three different categories. If you want to read more about this new weekly feature […]...

I thought now would be as good a good time to get a pulse on what the industry sees as a success and failure in the new domain name extension?space. First let me just say, it's still early, very early, and this?will undoubtedly change over time. Also what metrics are important? We all know that […]

I've called this weekly feature Flippa Friday for a long time now, so I decided now would be as good a time as any to give this a new name. So I'm going with Morgan's Flippa Five, this also?means I am focusing on five domains…but there's a twist. I'm going to pick my names as […]

This year TechCrunch held their annual conference in San Francisco (there is also a Disrupt NYC) and picked a winner from 26 "Battlefield" companies. The winner walks away with a check for $50,000 and the everlasting glow that comes from winning Disrupt.   The winner this year is Alfred (www.alfred.club?or www.alfredclub.com) another startup w...

There are plenty of options when it comes to domain extensions, after .com many a start up has chosen the .io, .co, or the .me to name a few. Yet for many there still is that desire to trade up to the .com. Today was another example of that with Decoded.com selling for $50,000. Decoded.co […]

Today is an incredibly exciting day for us, along with presenting at Techstars Demo Day we also just found-out that we have been featured on Product Hunt. If you don't know what Product Hunt is, suffice it to say it is one of the best places for startups to get exposure for their products. A […]

Well tomorrow is a major day for Fashion Metric so I'm going to keep this post incredibly short. Daina presents to a room of about 1,000 people along with ten other companies that are part of our Techstars class. We also just found-out that Fashion Metric will also be featured on Product Hunt tomorrow and […]

Directory Websites can be a great way to generate passive income, especially if you have a good domain name to go along with it. At the same time, it's important to understand that unless you already have a steady stream of traffic just putting up a directory won't suddenly send people to your site – […]

The last two weeks have probably been the busiest weeks of our entire lives as we prepare for what's coming on Wednesday – Techstars Demo Day. As many of you know, we have been going through the Techstars startup accelerator here in Austin. Techstars is the #1 startup accelerator in the world and has a […]

So this morning I discovered a video that is honestly too good not to share with the rest of you. If you go back in time to the 1980′s, 1985 to be exact, a revolutionary computer hit the market – the Amiga. Following a number of Amiga computers with descriptive names like 500, 500+ and […]

Hello, happy Friday, and welcome to another Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com. As usual I have scoured Flippa for what I think are some of the best domain deals. This week I've found some pretty solid non .COMs and while I think the past couple of weeks have been .COM heavy, this week I see […]

It's official, we are living in the future. Just when we thought the battle over Smart TV's was making us feel darn futuristic Google had to join Amazon in the battle for drone supremacy. Today Google announced what it is calling "Project Wing" in this post on Google Plus. Here's a video of Project Wing […]

From Morgan: This is a guest post by Ali Zandi, a Flippa Super?Seller. Ali has built a solid business selling domains on Flippa and he has taken the time to share some of the tips and tricks that have helped him become successful with all of you. Huge thanks to Ali for putting this together […]

I started buying and selling domain names in 2007 which made me…super late to the game. However, I was incredibly lucky to have the chance to meet and become friends with people who I consider to be some of the smartest domain investors on the planet. Techstars talks a lot about giving back and I […]

Mark Karpeles might not be the most popular guy in the Bitcoin world but that's not going to stop him from moving onto his next company, a hosting service called Forever.net.? While Karpeles can't talk about Mt GOX he can talk about his next moves back into the hosting world: ?We?ve been doing this since […]

I started this blog back in 2007 and from just about a month after I started onwards I received emails from companies offering to submit my blog to all the major search engines. If you're just starting a blog it can be easy to think this is necessary, heck – you want people to find […]

There's a new startup that I honestly feel like I've been waiting for all my life, it's called Plated and they make it incredibly easy to cook at home by sending you a box full with both ingredients and recipes. As I've said many times before, I hate grocery shopping. Always have, always will. I […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! Some pretty stellar names were added to Flippa over the last week and I think it is very safe to say that with the addition of the Domain Catalog Flippa is now one of the most active?domain marketplaces. One thing I've really liked seeing […]

It's a question I'm getting more and more and something that I am now seriously considering, selling domain names for Bitcoin. Rewind two years and I would never in a million years think of selling domain names, something that I understand very well, for Bitcoins, something that seemed volatile, unpredictable, and potentially gone in a […]...

Since 2007 I have been writing my blog in a browser. Back then I was using Firefox now I use Chrome, but still it's all happened via a web interface which honestly has seemed a bit archaic to me. Well, as they say, the times they are a changing and now it looks like there […]

So I think that every single domain investor who reads my blog knows who Frank Schilling is, he's one of the leaders of our industry and a major innovator in the domain name space. When Frank does something, he goes big and he innovates, also in big ways. I have been a loyal Domain Name […]

Today is a very special day, it marks the two year anniversary of the best decision I ever made in my life.?That's right, two years ago I asked my best friend in the entire world to become my wife. We just got back from a wonderful dinner and now it's time for some Star Trek. […]

It's official, we have now been in Austin for over two months and already we are seeing the Austin startup scene change. I can see a lot of similarities between what we're seeing now in Austin and what we saw in LA as the startup scene was developing there. That being said, and this is […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to another Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com. In case you missed last week's Flippa Friday I just wanted to highlight that Flippa recently opened a domain marketplace where you can list domain names in a non-auction format. I think this was an excellent move made by Flippa and once you […]

I have been using DomainNameSales since it first came out, in fact at that time it was called InternetTraffic. Over the years the team over at DNS has been busy adding some very useful features and a nifty iPhone app that I absolutely love. I'm also someone who loves to test things and figure out […]

Got your attention? I'm interested because I've started to dig into my analytics and understand if the length of my posts has anything to do with how many reads it gets. At the end of the day I've found that the title of the post has a lot more to do with the number of […]

Last week I said it feels like every week another Techstars Alum raises a monster round, and well, it has happened again. This week Plated, a startup that delivers recipes and ingredients weekly announced that they have raised a whopping $15M. "Alan Patricof,?founder and managing director of Greycroft Partners, said his firm was impressed with [...

This morning I wrote a post about an annoying bug I found while trying to check-out some new gTLD websites on my iPhone. I had some solid comments including a few readers who noted they experienced the same problem on their Android phone. One of my readers with an iPhone noted that it looks like […]

Hello, happy Sunday and welcome to what is going to be a very brief weekend musings. I have to say I have been amazed with how beautiful Austin is and this photo is a great example (no filters used) of the sunsets that rival our California-dreaming sunsets we're so used to. I took this photo […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to a very special Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! Today is special because along with a great list of names this week has also brought some very exciting news from Flippa – a domain marketplace. The story was first broken by OnlineDomain.com who has great coverage?with all the details you […]

As many of you know we are currently a part of Techstars Austin. One of the other startup accelerators that I am always incredibly impressed with is DreamIt Ventures and today TechCrunch picked their top five startups from DreamIt's Demo day. While TechCrunch picked their top five I wanted to share all 12 as I […]

So I've had a lot of people asking me questions about .NYC and for good reason, it's here and the good names are probably going to sell quickly. I will be doing a more detailed post about .NYC and what I think about the new extension but right now I wanted to give a few […]

We always hear to tighten your security online by using two factor authentication, it does make sense unless that two factor authentication is easily bypassed. PC World did a story on a 17 year old Australian who found away to get around it. What is disturbing is the fact that Joshua Rogers contacted Paypal on […]

I've been writing Python code since the 90′s (yes I'm old) and as the times have changed so have the many ways you can optimize your development environment. 15 years ago most people who wrote code did it on a PC, now the Mac is the go-platform for development teams all over the world. While […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome back to Flippa Friday. I decided to do away with the giant banner I've had at the top in the past. Less is often more and since so many of you are on mobile phones I want to save you the scrolling. There are some very solid one-word domains on […]

  Today San Francisco-based Crowdtilt announced they were changing their name to Tilt and moving over to Tilt.com.?I've always found that the companies who share their rebrand with their customers win and Tilt made sure it was front-and-center. On their blog they explain a bit more behind why they decided to change their name: "Our […]...

Neil Patel from Quick Sprout put this together, I read everything Neil puts out as he does exceptional work. Landing pages are supposed to help boost your conversions, but in some cases, they kill them. When does that happen? If your landing pages have the wrong copy or distract your visitors, your conversion rate will […]

Hello, Happy Saturday and welcome to my weekend musings. We have been in Vancouver since Wednesday night for Fashion Metric meetings and now have our first day of downtime before we head back to Austin tomorrow. Never a dull moment but as someone that has done business in Vancouver for many years (I ran Sonos […]

Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! There are some very solid names that were added to Flippa this week, this is definitely one of my best lists this year, enjoy! Freakish.com – 15 year-old one-word .COM that could be a good one for someone?who is doing something Halloween-related. Domains like […...

FastCo Labs is out with an article today about Donuts and how they became the world's largest registry overnight. I think the author forgot about Verisign who has many more domains under its wing than Donuts. In the article Daniel Schindler one of the co-founders discussed things like specificity and how they thought long and […]

We have now been living in Austin for about a month and a half and thanks to Techstars and the incredible network Jason and the team has built we've had a chance to meet upwards of 80 people involved in the Austin startup scene from VC's to Angel Investors, founders that just had a big […]

Now that we are well on our way into the new gTLD process I thought it would be a good time to poll the domain community on what pricing seems to be working and what isn't. Without a doubt it is clear that the registration price of a domain name directly impacts the growth of […]

This is one of those things you really do have to see to believe and yes, it pretty much solidifies the depth at which startup culture has in some ways gone mainstream. Banana Republic recently announced a new style for the summer, and the name of the style is – "The Startup Guy" I still […]

Hello, Happy Friday and welcome to Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! Every week I pick domain names that I think have the potential to be a solid investment. I don't tend to list more than six names because, well, I'm picky and I think you should be too.?Now onto my top picks from this week: […]

A good question came-up at Techstars yesterday during a VC meeting prep session that I thought would be good to share?with all of you. I know that many?of my blog readers are fairly new to the fundraising game so I'm sure this is a question that many of you also?might?have. Just to give some quick […]