Nominet each year visualizes the size and influence of the different national registries – those running country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) – in The Online World map using the domain name registration volume. The …
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Dan.com is automating domain percentage price changes
Dan.com shared that they are creating new advanced bulk editing tools that among other things will be automating percentage price changes in a domain name portfolio or a subset of the portfolio. With the new …
Read More ».London moves from Nominet to CentralNic
CentralNic has been awarded a project by Dot London Domains Limited, a subsidiary of London & Partners, the business growth and destination agency for London. London & Partners operates the .London top-level domain (TLD). London …
Read More »Tucows Q1 2021 results: combined domains and Ting Internet revenue increases
Tucows Inc. reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Financial Results Net revenue for the first quarter of 2021 was $70.9 million compared with …
Read More ».ME premium domain report: 453,500 EUR of revenue
The .ME Registry acted quickly in 2020 and on March 4th, 2020 they made the majority of its .ME premium domains available to anyone. Because of that a bit more than a year after the …
Read More »Sahil Gupta, world class idiot, fails to steal the domain Spase .com for a 3rd time!
Sahil Gupta, world class idiot, tried to steal the domain name Spase .com for the 3rd time and again failed miserably even though the owner did not respond to the UDRP. He first filed for …
Read More »GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appears on Sky Business (video)
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Sky Business and discussed the boom in businesses building an online presence. Aman Bhutani talked about the domain name aftermarket, the secondary market and domain auctions. That is now …
Read More »GoDaddy Q1 2021 results: revenue up 13.8%, domains revenue up 18.8%
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. GoDaddy also announced that Mark McCaffrey will be joining the company as its new Chief Financial Officer and Michele Lau …
Read More »Frank Schilling sold his 23 New GTLDs for more than $40 million
Uni Naming & Registry Services (UNR.com) concluded the public sale of 23 Top Level Domains. Following its April 28-30 auction event, the company has announced gross receipts of more than $40 million USD for its …
Read More »NameSilo 2020 results: revenue is up by 14.3%, 3.9 million domains under management
NameSilo Technologies Corp. announced the financial results for the financial year ended December 31, 2020. Financial highlights of Namesilo in fiscal 2020 as set forth below: Revenues of $31,050,980 for fiscal 2020 as compared to …
Read More »Peter Sunde explains how a domain name was hijacked from Tucows and moved to Namecheap
Peter Sunde, co-creator of Njalla, created a Twitter thread explaining how the domain dark.fail (@DarkDotFail) got hijacked from Tucows and then moved to Namecheap. Njalla revealed yesterday that Tucows was the victim of a phishing …
Read More »Hijacked domains: Tucows and Njalla fell victims of a phishing attack
Njalla revealed today that Tucows was the victim of a phishing attack that affected some domains registered with Njalla and other resellers and registrants. Tucows received a (fake) court order (including a gag order) to …
Read More »Google search: More details on the page experience update
Last November Google announced that the page experience ranking signal will go live on Google Search this year, in what they’re calling the “page experience update”. To help publishers and site owners improve their page …
Read More »$110m domain name transactions at Escrow.com in Q1 2021
Escrow.com released the Domain Investment Index for Q1 2021. The Q1 2021 trading volume of $110m was led by sales of a record number of large domain name portfolios as well as sales of high …
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