Last week WordPress announced that version 4.0 of their platform is coming, and for those who want to give it a shot before the rest, the beta is now ready to rock. While I'm typically the type of guy who likes to dive in and try new software versions I tend to hold-off on testing […]

Lately I've been thinking that there is a growing disconnect between the domain world and the startup world. A lot of this has come to me over the last year and a half as I've moved from the domain industry to the startup space myself. Now that I'm in Techstars I am surrounded by other […]

Way back when .Mobi was the flavor of the month and the only .whatever in town, some pointed out that the extension was not needed because many websites just use a m.website redirect. The logic held true and for the most part many sites just used a m.site redirect which kind of made the need […]

As many of you know I am the co-founder of Fashion Metric, a SaaS startup in the apparel eCommerce space. I have also been pretty intensely interested in fashion since I was around 15 and now that my full-time job intersects directly with the fashion world I have been getting even more involved in all […]

Hello Happy Friday and welcome to another Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! This is quickly becoming one of the most-read weekly series I've ever run on my blog so thanks to everyone who has been reading, commenting, and sharing. Lots of great names this week so let's get to it. Mortgages.info – super solid one-word […]...

So I think by now you realize that I'm a bit of a Python geek, and yes, I'm getting geekier by the day. One of the latest crazes in the Python world and with good reason is Flask. No I'm not talking about the flask you drink out of, and I'm excited to say that […]

?         The?American Council on Education just won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Ged.xyz. The domain name was owned by Information Services Inc. Decision: American Council on Education et al. v. Information Services Inc Claim Number: FA1406001565698 DOMAIN NAME <ged.xyz> PARTIES Complainant: ?...

The Miami Heat assembled their dream team a few years ago and now the domain industry has assembled theirs. Paul Goldstone, Ken Hansen and Gregg McNair, three of the most well-known domain industry veterans have joined forces and today is their day, .CO.COM has arrived. According to the .CO.COM team: .co.com is getting the greatest […]

So it's about darn time to let?all of the geeky coding stuff that I am doing loose on my blog. Right now over 50% of my audience is totally crazy about domains, which is awesome because I am too, but I'm also coding like crazy now and this is MorganLinton.com so it wouldn't make any […]

Hello, happy Saturday, and welcome to my weekend musings. As I've said probably about 100 times now, I absolutely love Austin, from great music, to great food, amazing people and a startup scene that is growing like crazy, I'm really feeling like this is home. ?The photo above is from 2nd street which is a […]

FLIPPA FRIDAY – 4TH OF JULY EDITION Hello, happy Friday and a very happy 4th of July! It has been pretty incredible to see so many awesome domain names make their way onto Flippa over the past few months. If you've been paying attention, the quality of the inventory coming onto Flippa has really gone […]

Leaving your day job and running a startup full time comes with a whole new set of responsibilities?that you might not have thought of. From hiring your first employees, setting up payroll, firing your first employee (no they all aren't going to work out) to writing regular investor updates there are a lot of new […]

DomainTools is the one singular tool that I use the most when it comes to researching people I want to buy domains from or who want to buy domains from me. While there are plenty of WHOIS tools out there DomainTools goes about a million steps further by providing what I like to call a […]

Over the last year Morgan has done some articles on the increasing popularity of .io and its usage by start ups. David Meyer wrote an article for GigaOm that takes a look at the dark side of .io and the people of the islands. From the article: The .io country code top-level domain is pretty […]

As many of you know I have been bullish on a small handful of new gTLDs. With over 1,500 new gTLDs hitting the market I've also made it no secret that I think many are going to be worthless.?So while I don't think anyone should rush out and try to by ten of each new […]

Hello, happy Friday and welcome to another exciting Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! It is very clear that the new gTLDs are having an impact on Flippa's inventory as we're seeing more .GURU, .XYZ and other TLDs start to hit the market. As I have said many times before I don't think investing in new […]

In case you missed the memo, Google held it's yearly developer conference, aptly titled Google I/O this week and made a ton of announcements. For those keeping score Google tends to announce a lot of cool new things at Google I/O however, like Google Buzz (remember that) some of these?cool new innovations don't quite reach […]

So you would think that a conference run by the folks who run a very important part of the Internet (domain names that is) would be able to provide an Internet connection for their attendees. Well think again, complaints about the lack of Internet has been rampant with Frank Schilling posting this most recently on […]

If you own a fair number of domain names there is a very good chance that you've encountered the famous Domain Appraisal Scam. I wrote a post about this scam back in March of 2012 and it now has a whopping 452 comments all from people who have caught the scammers in the act. In […]

As many of you know I have been running a blog over here at MorganLinton.com since 2007. While I started-out initially on Typepad I made the move to WordPress about five years ago and haven't looked back. Like most new things I learned the hard way and made mistakes that I learned from along the […]

Yes, we all love domain names. Heck I've been writing about domains since 2007 so I have to still think they are pretty awesome. While I love domains and don't think they are going anywhere I am also constantly looking at data and trying to understand where the world is going over the next 5-10 […]

Hello, ?good morning, and welcome to another Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com This week I have had a lot?of new readers come to the blog so I thought I would quickly re-explain what Flippa Friday is all about. Every week I go through the domain names selling on Flippa and pick names that I think […]

The smartphone battleground has just expanded beyond Google and Apple to include the one contender that understandably can fight alongside these two giants – Amazon. One of the keys to success for a smartphone is making it very attractive for developers which is one thing that Blackberry really failed at, remember Blackberry? Amazon did a [&#...

Okay, so I know this post has nothing to do with domains or startups, but honestly I literally was just crying with laughter watching this. Let's face it,?sometimes you just need a little laughter and since we've been working about 20 hours a day non-stop since we started at Techstars, this really is the comic […]

It's 2014 so it should come as no surprise that things like a house or car aren't the only collateral you can use to get a loan. With millions of dollars in domain names and websites selling every single month it's clear there is real value to these digital assets, and Lend.me is now making […]

As I've said many times before, DomainTools is one of?the most useful and essential tools for domain name investors. While I've always been a huge fan of DomainTools I have to say I haven't been the biggest fan of their site itself. The design has been, well, in need of an upgrade and I'm excited […]

I'm a big Bond fan and the gadgets are definitely one of the reasons why. This weekend I found a piece of anti-theft software for the Mac that actually makes me feel a bit like Bond…while Mac owners like myself don't have to worry as much about viruses, it's easy to forget that you're carrying […]

Hello, Happy Saturday and welcome to the very first "Austin Edition" of my Weekend musings. As you may have heard this week, Fashion Metric was selected as one of the 11 startups out of 1,500 applicants. Here's a breakdown of how this compares to other acceptance rates: 2015 Acceptance Rates Harvard – 6.2% Stanford – […]...

Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to another exciting edition of Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com. I missed last week as we were making our way to Austin, well we are here now, loving it, and I have a nice batch of domains on Flippa that I'm also pretty excited about. Enough from me, let's get […]

Okay, to be completely honest I never thought in a million years we would be thinking about moving our startup to Austin, TX. I was born in the Bay Area, Berkeley to be exact, and growing-up when I thought of Texas I thought of three things, guns, overweight people and country music. First, please remember […]

.CO.COM, a new domain name extension run by three of the most-well known veterans in the domain industry. Even though they aren't in general availability yet, the registry?released a slew of premium domains yesterday, and at prices that anyone can afford. Names?like Flying.co.com, Beef.co.com, Payments.co.com and more went up for sale for under $50...

Go Daddy Auctions that are expired expired all throughout the day from about 11:35 am Eastern to no later than around 5:15 pm Eastern. Today Go Daddy Auctions had an expired auction that was a virtual game of back an forth auction ping pong. The two participants were set to test the patience of their […]

It's no secret that .CLUB has taken-off like a rocket ship since they went live and it's been pretty amazing to see all of the people building on these names, and quickly! One of the first sites to be built on .CLUB that really caught my eye is Shaving.club which is a subscription shaving service […]

The .XYZ team hit the road this weekend in an RV heading out to Go Daddy HQ in Arizona. The team has been updating their Instagram account along the way and it looks like they are having a blast.?I wanted to share some of the photo highlights with all of you since I know not […]

MissingLettr.com opened for business today, at least from a beta standpoint. Their Twitter handle @missinglettr has gotten a lot of tweets of those who have signed up for the beta launch. Meet the blogging platform your startup is going to love. Natural, automated marketing and increased blog conversions while you focus on writing great content. [&...

Wow. A lot has happened since I wrote my post – An Industry Divided – on June 3rd before news of the .XYZ Network Solutions debacle hit. When I originally wrote?this post, I, like many others in the industry did not have all the facts, and while I still don't think we have all of […]

A lot of developers in San Francisco are still picking their jaws off the floor after Apple let out some big news, iOS8 apps are going to be written in a new programming language called Swift. According to TechCrunch it looks like Swift has only been in development for almost?four years and it actually started […]

While I have to say I had hoped that the new gTLDs would bring us closer together it is clear now that it has divided our industry more than ever before. On one side are .COM loyalists who can't imagine a world ten years from now where .COM isn't the go-to TLD. On the other […]

What a day.?.XYZ launched today and the buzz is going strong. Daniel Negari, .XYZ's founder wrote one of the best blog posts I've read by a domain industry veteran to-date. Before I dive-into .XYZ, I want to talk about the domain industry perception of these new TLDs. To do this I'd like to go back […]

Let's be honest, email takes up a lot of our time. It really doesn't matter what industry you are in, email is there, and there's a good chance you'll be getting emails all day, every day, well, forever. Here's the problem, it can be easy to spend time every day archiving or deleting mail from […]

Hello, happy Friday, and welcome to Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! Now you might notice a couple of .IO names in my list this week, that is because Flippa now seems to have some of the best premium .IO inventory. As I've always said, .COMs will always provide top dollar and maximum liquidity, but I […]

I have been running my blog for seven years and using WordPress for close to 5 years and Plugins are one of the main reasons why I made the switch and have been such a WP fan for so long. While I'm running quite a few plugins on my blog (it's one of my favorite […]