VPN.com announced today that Darryl Lopes has been brought on as a Senior Domain Broker. Before coming to VPN.com, Lopes spent four and a half years as a Domain Broker at Uniregstry and one year …
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MMX revenue was up 5% in 2018 because of the ICM acquisition
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2018. It seems that 2018 was not really a good year for MMX as the acquisition of ICM for …
Read More »So Donuts lied and is now increasing renewals to 220 domain extensions
On April 1, 2019 Donuts announced that it will be changing standard prices for the majority of its TLDs. The changes will go into effect October 1, 2019. Until that time all registered domains may …
Read More »Joseph Peterson resigned from Epik
Joseph Peterson, Director of Operations at Epik, announced on Namepros that he has resigned and is leaving Epik.com. Joseph said he resigned on last Tuesday, just a few days after the latest Rob Monster/Epik NZ controversy …
Read More »Rob.Monster was registered today and it is for sale!
.Monster, one of the most ridiculous New gTLD extensions, launched today by the XYZ registry. Nobody really cared about these domains except than to get a good laugh especially since the registry chose April Fools’ …
Read More »171,867 .top domains drop in a day! Has the big .Top domain name crash started?
5.5% of all .top domain names were removed from zone files today. Has the big .Top domain name crash started? According to namestat.org 171,867 domains were removed from zone files yesterday leaving the .top extension …
Read More »Michael Gleissner is defeated by Trump in trademark case
The Michael Gleissner sage continues as Gleissner’s appeal against TRUMP TV opposition decision was dismissed. World Trademark Review published an article today detailing how “The England and Wales High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) has …
Read More »GoDaddy employee caught bidding on domain name auctions
Paul Nicks, VP & GM for GoDaddy’s Aftermarket, made a blog post tonight saying that GoDaddy identified an employee who engaged in activities in violation of its policies. On March 11, a customer contacted GoDaddy …
Read More »2018 ended with 348.7 million domains across all top-level domains (TLDs)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the fourth quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 348.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 6.3 million domain name registrations, or …
Read More »3 months left to get your reserved .UK domains but most people don’t want them
.UK domain registrants with a third-level domain (.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk or .ltd.uk) are reminded that they have less than three months left to secure the shorter second level (.uk) equivalent, before it is …
Read More »LXME expands to 4N and 2C .com domains
LXME, Giuseppe Graziano’s Liquid Domain Market Exchange, launched in September 2018. Originally LXME was for 3 letter .com domain names only. But today Giuseppe announced that LXME is expanding to accept 4 number .com domains and 2 …
Read More »Live Chat and Mailchimp can now be added to Efty marketplaces
Efty announced 2 new features today. You can now add Live Chat and Mailchimp to your Efty marketplaces. Every Efty account comes with a domain name marketplace feature, making it easy for buyers to browse …
Read More »VPN.com announced 5 brokered domain name sales
VPN.com announced five successful domain name transactions today: SEOService.com: $35,000 USD Detect.com: $57,000 USD GTA.com: Undisclosed SiteMaps.com: Undisclosed VPNUnlimited.com: Undisclosed “This is a great time to be in the domain name industry. As platform risk …
Read More »Marketing and branding from monster movies to domains (video)
Jeff Sass gave a very interesting talk during JoomlaDay Florida 2019 that was titled “Marketing and Branding from Monster Movies to Domains”. “Long before he was CMO of the .CLUB Domain Registry, Jeff Sass spent …
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