Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (“Endurance”) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion including outstanding indebtedness. …
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Nominet feels the heat and starts making promises
A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the …
Read More »Tucows Q4 2020 report: revenue drops to $70.8 million
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “The fourth quarter was a solid finish to a very good year …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $49,776 in January
Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in January for a total of $49,776. Reported prices started at $9,888 and went up to $39,888. All 2 domains were .com. The average reported domain …
Read More »82.5% of .eu domain names are connected to a web server
In an effort to further understand its customers and maintain the .eu “competitive” edge, EURid has completed the 2nd part of the .eu website categorisation. (You can see the first part here.) In November 2020, …
Read More »Google creates icon that provides more info about search results
Google Search is now rolling out a special icon that provides more information about the source of a result, if your connection to it will be secure, and more. This is a beta feature for …
Read More »Tucows CEO Elliot Noss talks about content moderation (video)
Last Friday, NamesCon Online hosted a fireside chat with Tucows CEO, Elliot Noss, titled “How do we make the Internet better from here?” The discussion at the closing session of NamesCon 2021 included some reminiscing …
Read More »RADIX reports $2M revenue
RADIX shared its bi-annual premium report for the second half of 2020. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the RADIX nTLD portfolio from 1st July 2020 till 31st December …
Read More »Stefanos Tsitsipas wants to destroy whoever bought his domain name! (video)
Stefanos Tsitsipas, world number 6 in tennis and best Greek tennis player ever, wants to destroy whoever bought his domain name! Stefanos Tsitsipas is at Melbourne preparing for the ATP Cup starting today (representing team …
Read More »Masters of Domains: Escrow.com’s top 10 highest-grossing brokers
Each year, Escrow.com recognizes the top 10 highest-grossing brokers in the domains industry for the deals they’ve closed. Here are the top 10 highest-grossing brokers for 2020 at Escrow.com: 1. Drew Rosenor, CEO, Media Options …
Read More »New campaign to rescue .UK and remove 5 Nominet board directors
Krystal, a web hosting company and registrar, has launched PublicBenefit.UK – a campaign to rescue Nominet, the guardian for 10.8M .UK domain names and one of the world’s top five registries. The campaign accuses Nominet’s …
Read More »Net 4 India will probably be terminated as a registrar
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued a third breach notice against Net 4 India Limited (Net 4 India) for its repeated and ongoing failures to comply with the Registrar Accreditation Agreement …
Read More »DAN 2.0 coming in February
Reza Sardeha, CEO of Dan.com, announced today at NamesCon Online 2.0 that DAN 2.0 is coming in February. DAN wants to integrate all aftermarket platforms into DAN 2.0 and to unify/centralize their inventories. The rebuilt …
Read More »NamesCon Online 2021: best sessions of day 3
NamesCon Online 2021 conference ends today with day 3. NamesCon Online 2021 conference runs from January 27 to January 29 2021. I went through the agenda and picked the best sessions of day 3. (Not …
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