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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

Donuts revealed seven previously unpublished New gTLD domain sales ranging from $15,000 up to $125,000.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 …

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 …

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. …

NameJet and Snapnames announced they will be combining their registrar expiry domain names into one domain auction inventory. NameJet and SnapNames have been doing this with drop catching auctions since 2017. You will now be able …

I have bought no domains this year. This is for sure my biggest purchase drought since I started buying domain names in 2002. I have not been extremely active in expired auctions lately but I …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced an update on its trading for both Q4 and FY 2019. CentralNic nearly doubled its revenue in 2019 to US$109 million. Trading update highlights CentralNic’s unaudited revenue for the …

The domain name ADD.com that was just auctioned last week at the NamesCon 2020 domain auction at Austin just launched with a new website. The domain sold for $800,000 and was the top sale in …