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Ottawa Domainer Meetup to be Held on August 29th

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There are a number of domain investor groups that get together throughout the year. I know of groups in south Florida and Los Angeles who hold casual meetups to talk about domain names from time to time. When I lived in New York, I hosted a few small meetups, and it helped me meet quite a few people I stay in touch with to this day.

Bill Sweetman from Name Ninja will be holding a domain investor event at the end of the month. The Ottawa Domainer Meetup, as it will be officially known, will be held on Saturday, August 29, 2026 from 4-8 PM in downtown Ottawa, Canada.

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Porkbun Hits 4 Million DUM

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Porkbun is a domain registrar that is a preferred option for many. It ranked #5 in the Namepros poll of top domain registrars last year. The company has been operating for a little more than ten years.

Although I have not used Porkbun, I understand the registrar has a modern interface and back-end design, reasonably good pricing, and responsive customer service. It’s no surprise the platform has continued on a strong growth curve.

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Why Some Startups Insist on NDAs for Domain Name Purchases

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Over the weekend, Paul Graham, Founder of the Y Combinator startup accelerator, shared his thoughts upon hearing about a startup’s $250,000 domain name acquisition:

The startup founder, Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, out himself as the $250,000 buyer of Folk.com. I would agree with Arlan’s assessment that it was a good deal for his company, as Folk.com is a short and meaningful one word .com domain name. It was also an exceptional domain name upgrade over GetFolk.app.

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PMC Weekend is Here – $10k+ Raised So Far

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One of my favorite weekends of the year has arrived. On Sunday, I will be riding in my 13th Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. With help from friends and colleagues in the domain investment business, we have raised more than $10,000 for Dana-Farber this year. My fundraising goal is $15,000.

We all know someone who has had cancer or has cancer. It’s a terrible disease that impacts people around the world. I’ve had friends and family overcome their cancer diagnosis, and sadly, I have lost family and friends to cancer. Dana-Farber helps people with cancer around the world, and its research helps give people with cancer better outcomes.

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Monitor Your Spam Folder

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In February, I discovered the contact form on my corporate website wasn’t working. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but my WordPress developer made a fix that solved the deliverability issue. However, the contact form receives a fair amount of spam emails now that it is working. This issue needs to be addressed at some point soon, but it is more of an annoyance than a problem.

My email provider has been doing a good job of marking these spam messages correctly. I check the spam folder on a regular basis to try to ensure I am not missing anything, but if a contact form email is marked as spam and isn’t quickly identifiable as something other than spam, I’ll just trash it and all other spam emails.

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Cognition.com Acquired by Cognition via Lumis

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Cognition, one of the most high profile AI companies, has acquired its brand matching Cognition.com domain name. According to a post on LinkedIn this morning, the deal was brokered by Lumis:

Whois records at DomainTools shows the domain name may have changed hands in late May. It had been registered under Whois privacy at GoDaddy and it transferred to MarkMonitor, where it is now publicly registered to Cognition AI, Inc.

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