Epik Holdings Inc. announced the completion of its acquisition of Norwegian-based, Terrahost AS as part of the company’s “strategic objective to provide resilient, affordable, data hosting and storage solutions to the world”. “Terrahost is building …
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Domain name trend report: January 2022
This is a great report provided by 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 evaluate you current …
Read More »Spamhaus: Most abused domain registrars, Q4 2021
Spamhaus published the latest report for the most abused domain registrars in botnets from Q4 2021: Overall, we saw a decrease in fraudulent domain registrations in Q4 2021, which is positive news. But some countries’ …
Read More »Report: New gTLDs have yet to make any significant dent in the overall gTLD market share
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q3/2021 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. Highlights …
Read More »Spamhaus: Most abused top-level domains, Q4 2021
Spamhaus published the latest report for the most abused top-level domains in botnets from Q4 2021: A new entry at #4 We don’t often see new TLD entries within the top five of this Botnet …
Read More »DAN adds Payoneer as a payout option
DAN announced today a new partnership with Payoneer. “Payoneer handles bank payouts and more for millions of marketplace users of platforms like Airbnb and Amazon.” From today on, you can add Payoneer as a payout …
Read More »Dynadot: customer data was not impacted by the DDoS attack
Dynadot emailed customers saying that customer data was not impacted by the 150Gbps DDoS attack. Although Dynadot had DDoS protection in place, it was not capable of blocking an attack of this size. You can …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 4 domains for $196,188 in December
Mike Mann reported 4 of his domain name sales in December 2021 for a total of $196,188. Reported prices started at $15,000 and went up to $140,000. Mike sold 4 .com domains. The average reported …
Read More »Tucows issues an apology regarding the Enom outage
Tucows issued an apology regarding the Enom outage. Enom had a large-scale data center migration that caused many different issues. You can see the Tucows apology here: Beginning Saturday, January 15, 2022, Enom experienced a …
Read More »CentralNic reports year-on-year organic revenue growth of 37%
CentralNic Group plc announced that following its significant investment programme, the Company’s organic growth has further accelerated during the fourth quarter of 2021, resulting in year-on-year organic revenue growth of 37% for the full year …
Read More »Web Hosting Canada launches .CA domain backordering
Web Hosting Canada has announced the official launch of its .CA domain name backordering platform. Canadians can use the new tool to register .CA domain names the second they expire and before they become available to …
Read More »Liquid market report Q4 2021: $34M in Escrow.com sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 22nd edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key …
Read More »Mike Mann says GoDaddy domain appraisals are a total scam and a racket
Mike Mann made a few posts on social media about the GoDaddy automated domain name appraisal tool, calling it a total scam and a racket. I can’t say I blame him. I have written numerous …
Read More »Domain name trend report: December 2021
This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …
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