.blog Passes 100,000 Registrations, 66.5% of Purchased Domains are in Use

The .blog domain extension, managed by Automattic subsidiary Knock Knock WHOIS There (KKWT), opened registration to the public in November 2016 and has just passed the 100,000 registration milestone. The extension is averaging 300 new .blog domains registered per day and is quickly gaining popularity among new generic TLDs. According to the most recent stats available at nTLDStats, .blog registrations …

6 Plugins for Accepting Bitcoin on Your WordPress Site

Are you planning to accept payments on your WordPress site? Then you’ve probably already considered the usual eCommerce payment gateway suspects. With 79% of Americans shopping online, it makes sense to turn to the most popular—and trusted—forms of payment to support your site’s conversion process. But what about cryptocurrency? Currently, only about 1.5% of Americans […] View original post at …

WordPress Multisite: Subdomains or Subdirectories?

When you activate Multisite on your WordPress installation, there are a number of things you need to consider and decide, such as whether you’ll let your users create their own sites, what themes and plugins you’ll make available and your registration settings. But the one decision that’s very difficult to reverse is whether to use […] View original post at …