Ethos Capital senses that ICANN will deny their sweet .org acquisition deal and starts making promises left and right. Or they just made a deal with ICANN to makes these promises so that ICANN approves …
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Mike Mann sells 3 domains for $79,888 in January
Mike Mann reported selling 3 domain names in January for a total of $79,888. Prices started at $9,888 and went up to $38,000. Mike Mann sold 3 .com domains which you can see further below. …
Read More »2 domain name conferences coming in August 2020
2 domain name conferences are coming in August 2020 one in Europe and one in the US: NamesCon Europe 2020 and Rick Schwartz’s 2nd Annual Asheville Domain Investor Meet-up and Family Outing. NamesCon Europe 2020 …
Read More »Liquid domains report: $12,195,427 in Escrow.com sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 14th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of …
Read More »My rough estimate of the Uniregistry acquisition price
After the announcement of the Uniregistry acquisition by GoDaddy some people commented that the acquisition price would be around $50m to $100m. I don’t think the price was near this level. Here is my (extremely) …
Read More »GoDaddy reports 2019 results (revenue up 12.2%)
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2019. Total revenue of $780.4 million, up 12.2% year over year. Domains revenue of $352.3 million, up 12.1% year …
Read More »Opposing the .com price increase
Please act now. The comment period for the proposed price increases of .com closes tomorrow Friday, February 14, 2020. I could have written a lot more about this as I wrote about .org but I …
Read More »Josh Reason launches the Domain Name Wholesale Exchange
Josh Reason is launching the Domain Name Wholesale Exchange (DNWE). The new platform aims to bring a better wholesale experience to domain investors. The exchange is a domain platform built entirely for domainers so the …
Read More »GoDaddy acquires Uniregistry’s registrar, marketplace and 350,000 domains
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today announced it is acquiring Uniregistry’s domain registrar and marketplace businesses. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close sometime in Q2 2020. The Uniregistry …
Read More »How to buy and sell expired domains for a profit (video)
“Buying and selling domain names is an exciting adventure that for some seems to conjure up images of finding hidden pirate treasure or guessing the winning combination on the next Powerball. Stories abound of domains …
Read More »ICANN mocks the California Attorney General
ICANN is mocking the California Attorney General in a letter submitted on January 31, 2020. ICANN’s attorneys (Jones Day) replied to the letter from California Attorney General (Xavier Becerra) on the 23rd of January regarding …
Read More »Donuts revealed 7 previously unpublished domain sales
Donuts revealed seven previously unpublished New gTLD domain sales ranging from $15,000 up to $125,000. The sales were revealed at NamesCon but were not reported (except for live.chat) until Donuts made a tweet today. It …
Read More »Airbridge Equity Partners (AEP) acquires a minority stake in DAN.com
Airbridge Equity Partners (AEP) has acquired a minority stake in the Amsterdam based scale-up DAN.com. “The Domain Automation Network was founded to resolve the existing & growing problems of the domain industry through process automation while aiming to …
Read More »Verisign reports $1.23 billion revenue for 2019 (up 1.4%)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2019. 2019 GAAP Financial Results Verisign reported revenue of $1.23 billion for 2019, up 1.4 percent from $1.21 billion in 2018. …
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