Believe it or not, in a World Wide Web filled with department stores and mass retailers, small businesses have the opportunity to shine more than ever. A well-designed e-commerce site can be used to share your brand stor...
Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, has acquired the personal journaling app Day One. Day One is an app that simplifies personal journaling by removing the paper and putting the process on computers and mob...
Domain names ending in .CO are ubiquitous among startups these days. But .CO wasn’t always a popular domain choice. In fact, they couldn’t be registered by businesses outside of Colombia for many years. So how did we get...
Your domain names are valuable. Losing access to — or ownership of — a domain name you use for your website and email could be catastrophic to your business. With thieves regularly trying to crack into email accounts and...
In Monday’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced a number of new software updates. Nothing seemed to catch the attention of the tech world—and many small businesses—like their new Mail Privacy Protectio...
WordPress can rightly be called one of the most popular content management systems in the world, if not THE most popular one. The simplicity for users, paired with extreme flexibility (with the right themes and plugins, ...
Business is good. Really good. But there’s something that’s been nagging you: your subpar domain name. When you originally developed your web presence, you chose a longer domain name than what you wanted. Why? Do any of...
On June 8, Amazon.com will automatically enroll your Alexa-enabled devices in Sidewalk. This is a free wireless mesh service for Amazon customers that allows you and your neighbors to share Wi-Fi connections. Unfortunate...
With an average of 3.5 billion Google searches made every single day, the search engine results page is a prime target for fraud. Search engine poisoning is a malicious tactic used by hackers to trick innocent online use...
Let’s face facts: cybercrime is on the rise. We at Namecheap have always taken fraud and other online abuse seriously, and over the years have invested significant time and money in our effort to fight against crime acr...
As well as being the official start of summer (in the Northern Hemisphere that is), June also rings in Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Business Day, and you can celebrate with us at Namecheap with incredible deals through...
Like a fine wine or a bottle of whisky, many domain name investors place a high value on “aged” domains. The idea is that the best domain names were registered a long time ago, so the older the domain’s registration date...
A 25-year-old veteran of the Internet, Internet Explorer will finally be put out to pasture in 2022. According to NPR, Microsoft has been trying to move away from IE (and all the jokes about the buggy browser) since 2015...
Can you believe it? WordPress turns 18 on May 27, 2021. In the U.S. and many other countries, that makes WordPress officially an adult. If WordPress were a human being, it would become eligible to vote, graduate high sch...
Still going strong after eighteen years, WordPress has surpassed all expectations. In the early days, co-founder Matt Mullenweg joked that WordPress had more developers than users. Although WordPress got off to a slow st...
Customers are more web-savvy than ever and have become accustomed to all the amenities and options that big companies offer online. But don’t let this discourage you as a small business owner. Designing a focused, well-c...
After decades of repeated denials, the U.S. government wants answers. Senator Marco Rubio wants a public, unclassified analysis of all Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) sightings from the Pentagon—going back to the 20...
Sometimes it seems like the Internet was created for pets. After all, if you’re like most people, your friends’ and family’s lovable, adorable pictures of cats, dogs, and other pets fill your timeline. If you really love...
Short domain names are hard to find. But domains don’t have to be short to make great (and memorable!) brands. Using a bit of creativity, such as alliteration or rhyming, can help you create a domain and brand that’s a b...
Delighted West Midlands Trains U.K. employees received a thank you message and the offer of a bonus for running trains during the pandemic. To get the bonus, they just had to click a link. Unfortunately, the message, sig...