The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) announced the expansion of its Board of Directors. Starting this month, Braden Pollock is taking a board seat after his nomination received overwhelming support from ICA Members. I’m looking forward …
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Namecheap vs ICANN: removal of price caps for .ORG and .INFO found improper in landmark IRP decision
Namecheap announced that the removal of price caps for .ORG and .INFO was found improper in a landmark IRP decision. Here is what Namecheap posted: Back in 2019, Namecheap stood up to ICANN as it …
Read More »GoDaddy increases commissions to 25% unless you use their nameservers
Big change in domain name sales commissions at GoDaddy, Afternic, Dan and Uniregistry. GoDaddy announced today that their are increasing domain name sales commissions to 25% unless you use their nameservers. If you do use …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 5 domains for $126,776 in September
Mike Mann reported 5 of his domain name sales in September 2022 for a total of $126,776. Reported prices started at $14,888 and went up to $59,888. (If you are coming from the Domaining.com feed …
Read More »Göran Marby resigns from ICANN President and CEO
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the Board of Directors has accepted Göran Marby’s resignation as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Marby’s departure is effective immediately. Göran Marby was …
Read More ».MUSIC joins Deezer, Lyricfind and 12 others to form BELEM
.MUSIC joins a consortium of major music industry players, including Deezer, LyricFind and 12 others to form BELEM. BELEM aims to build capacity and innovative services to for music publishers, songwriters, platforms, and labels to …
Read More »CentralNic acquires portfolio of revenue generating niche websites
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a portfolio of revenue generating niche websites (“Publishing Network”) for a consideration of USD 5.2m in cash and assumed …
Read More »Guide: Google search ranking and domain names
Google uses automated ranking systems that look at many factors and signals about hundreds of billions of web pages and other content in our Search index to present the most relevant, useful results, all in …
Read More »Who is “George Dikian” on the VPN.com lawsuit?
“George Dikian” has now filed an answer to the VPN.com lawsuit. Dikian is represented by Rodenbaugh Law. In June VPN.com LLC filed a multimillion lawsuit against domain investor George Dikian, Qiang Du and “John Doe” …
Read More »CentralNic gets a new CEO
CentralNic Group Plc (AIM: CNIC) announced today the appointment of Michael Riedl, currently Group CFO, as Group CEO with immediate effect. Michael succeeds Ben Crawford, who retires from the board today. Read the announcement: Ben …
Read More »Domain name trend report: October 2022
This is a another report provided by Identity Digital (formerly Donuts) to get keyword and domain ideas for your future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better …
Read More »Escrow.com: 2021 top 10 domain brokers
Escrow.com today announced the top 10 highest-grossing domain name brokers of 2021 as part of its annual Master of Domains series. “We are excited to announce the winners of our annual Master of Domains series …
Read More »Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter leads to surge of .social domain registrations?
Identity Digital (formerly Donuts) claims that volatility in social platforms led a to surge in .social domain registrations. They claim that after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter .social registrations were up 435% in the first …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 1 domain for $4,888 in August
Mike Mann reported 1 of his domain name sales in August 2022 for a total of $4,888. Reported prices started at $4,888 and went up to 4,888. Domain sales were a bit slow. Was it …
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