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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, you can make your WordPress site pretty much anything you want), and accessibility — it all contributes to its…

As great as WordPress has been for the web developers among us, beginners and casual website owners have remained rather unimpressed with WordPress’s abilities. This is all about to change with the release of WordPress 5.8 scheduled for July 20. I mean, sure, WordPress has always been powerful enough to handle any task you might…

Determining who owns a domain name used to be simple. The creators of the domain name system built a service called Whois that served as a phone directory for websites. Whois displayed the phone number, address, email address and fax number (remember, this was a while ago!) of the contacts for the domain owner. The…

What do flip.xyz, bit.cloud, m.chat and quest.xyz have in common? They’re all domains with “new top-level domain” extensions that have sold for at least $25,000 this year. It’s proof that even non-.COM names can sell for good money and be profitable domain name investments. But investing in these alternate extensions requires different considerations than .COM…

Moving is so relaxing — said no one ever. On top of having to physically move all your stuff, there’s a ton of admin tasks to handle like changing your address, forwarding your mail, setting up your home phone, letting your friends and family know your new address, changing your address on all of your…

.INK is a versatile top-level domain name with lots of potential uses including publishing, printing, tattoos, and link shortening. People have registered over 40,000 domain names ending in .INK, and Webhostifier is one of the top registrars people use to register the domain extension. Here are some ways Webhostifier customers use .INK domain names. Ink (as…

As your chosen registrar, we want to help make your life as pain-free as possible when it comes to domain management. For this reason, we offer our customers the ability to manage domains with Webhostifier through Terraform. This incredible tool allows developers to manage, monitor, and provision resources without the need for manual configuration.  Interestingly,…

The pandemic has created a new generation of entrepreneurs — some by necessity, a lot by choice. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Americans filed 4.3 million business applications last year, a record number since the agency started tracking the data in 2004. And the number should be even higher this year. Data from the Census Bureau…

The year 2021 is just about to draw to a close. It’s been quite a year, as you’d probably agree. In this, our final tech news roundup of the year, let’s look back at some of the most intriguing stories we featured through the year. ABBA performing again—as holograms. Sweden’s beloved band ABBA released a new…

Domain investors often use shorthand and terms that might not make sense to the uninitiated. For example, a domain investor might say, “I hand-regged a bunch of domains because the drop and the aftermarket are too expensive and full of frontrunners. I parked them to earn PPC.” If that sounded like a bunch of gibberish…