The GoDaddy website sucks. Anyone that deals with GoDaddy on a daily basis knows it. It is full of bugs, inconsistencies, old and new systems contradicting, etc. On Saturday I complained about the crazy expensive …
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Google introducing page experience as a search ranking factor
Google said that through both internal studies and industry research, users show they prefer sites with a great page experience. In recent years, Search has added a variety of user experience criteria, such as how …
Read More »GoDaddy ripping people off with .us domain names
.US domain names are some of the cheapest domain names to register and renew. Yet somehow GoDaddy, a US company, has decided that .us domains are a good choice so it can rip off customers …
Read More »Internet grows to 366.8 million domain names in Q1 2020
Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the first quarter of 2020 closed with 366.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 4.5 …
Read More »Lost a GoDaddy auction, then the winner defaulted. How do I find who the bidder was?
A few day ago I lost an auction for a domain name at Godaddy. I made a proxy bid early in the day the auction was ending as I was not going to be available …
Read More »“Is the lockdown driving domain registrations?”
Numbers from CENTR show a spike in new registrations in the month of April 2020. A sample of 25 European ccTLDs saw a 20% increase in new domains registered in April 2020 from the same …
Read More »CSC moves from a New gTLD to a .com domain
CSC, a brand protection agency (among others), announced today that its Digital Brand Services branch is moving from a New gTLD (cscdigitalbrand.services) to a .com (cscdbs.com) domain. CSC started using the (long) .services domain name …
Read More »Domain Agents domain valuation guide – 20% increase in domain offers during lockdown
Domain Agents has published its 2020 domain valuation guide and the first observation made by Ryan McKegney, CEO of DomainAgents, is that during lockdown there has been a 20% increase in domain name offers. “Even …
Read More »How is shopping around for a domain going to help you?
I have this same question for years. How is shopping around for a domain going to help you? Help you get it cheaper that is… I am not talking about different domains. I am talking …
Read More »Liquid domains report: $7,398,803 in Escrow.com sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 15th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 4 domains for $89,776 in April
Mike Mann reported selling 4 domain names in April for a total of $89,776. Prices started at $14,888 and went up to $30,000. Mike Mann sold 4 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …
Read More »ElectricCar.com domain name sells for 6 figures
ElectricCar.com Sedo announced today that the domain name ElectricCar.com was sold for a 6-figure price. The seller from Michigan USA has owned the domain name since late 2016 or early 2017. The domain was parked …
Read More »Tucows Q1 2020 report: revenue and gross profit growth of 6% and 11%
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a provider of network access, domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “The …
Read More »Escrow.com sells $85.85 million worth of domain names in Q1 2020
Escrow.com has just released today its Domain Investment Index Report for Q1 2020. Here are some key findings from the Escrow.com report: Domains prices grew from last quarter, with rocket growth for 4 character domain …
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