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The annual .US live Town Hall webcast is being held next week. This is the first town hall since GoDaddy acquired Neustar that is the .us registry so it would be interesting to see if …
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GoDaddy Q3 2020 report: total revenue was $844.4 million (up 11.0%)
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020, and announced the departure of Andrew Low Ah Kee, Chief Operating Officer, who is leaving to take a President …
Read More »Please Vote!
Please vote today if you haven’t already voted in the United States 2020 Presidential election. Vote for more sanity in the world. I am not an American so I am posting the video of another …
Read More »Minds and Machines Group investigation and board changes
Further to the announcement of 9 October 2020 (see below), the Minds + Machines Group Limited Board has concluded its formal investigation to determine whether certain revenue associated with a specific contract had been correctly recognised …
Read More »Endurance International Group (EIG) sold to Clearlake Capital for $3 Billion
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (“Endurance” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:EIGI) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group L.P. (“Clearlake”) in an all …
Read More ».EU domain registrations decrease again
EURid released its Q3 2020 Progress Report today, sharing its quarterly statistics and developments. Highlights of the report include: Total .eu registrations decreased from 3606143 at the end of Q2 2020 to 3576302 at the …
Read More »Trademark examination guide for Generic.com terms
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a trademark examination guide for Generic.com terms. The guide issued this month was of course written after the now famous USPTO v. Booking.com case. On June …
Read More »Verisign ended Q3 of 2020 with 163.7 million .com and .net domains (up 4%)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the third quarter of 2020. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $318 million for the third quarter of 2020, up 3.1 percent from the …
Read More »Do people deserve a second chance?
Do people deserve a second chance? Of course they do. But some people had many opportunities over the past 5 years to make things right or AT LEAST they had the opportunity not being an …
Read More »5 things you don’t want to see from a potential buyer!
I got a domain name inquiry from a potential buyer. The domain is a 4 letter .com domain. It is not a word but it has good letters in it. The inquiry came from a …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $27,388 in September
This was a slow reporting month for Mike Mann so I have included his domain appraisals from his live videos. Mike Mann reported selling 2 domain names in September for a total of $27,388. Reported …
Read More ».au domain registrations decrease despite the pandemic
The 2019/2020 auDA Annual Report was released, with data from the Australian domain name administrator showing an increase in domain name registrations as the impacts of COVID-19 were felt across Australia and activities moved increasingly …
Read More »Useless organization spends $126 million for doing pretty much nothing
ICANN, a useless organization that does pretty much nothing all year around, managed to “only” spend $126 million in the financial year ending 30 June 2020. Almost all of its policy development is done by …
Read More »Liquid domains report: $13M+ in Escrow(.)com domain sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 17th 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 …
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