Since December last year, Efty has been offering SSL certificates for all custom marketplace sites on the Growth and Professional plans and as of today, they’ve made it possible to start redirecting buyers to SSL secured …
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Internet grows by 0.9% to 332.4 million domains in 2017 (.com & .net grow, New gTLDs lose 5 million domains)
Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the fourth quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 332.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 17 domains in January for $416,716
Mike Mann reported selling 17 domain names in January for a total of $416,716. Prices started at $4,888 and went up to $195,000. Highest reported sale was CryptoWorld.com for $195,000. All 17 of the sold …
Read More »Paul Nicks talks about the NameFind – GoDaddy domain name portfolio during NamesCon 2018
Paul Nicks talked in Las Vegas during NamesCon 2018 about how it is like operating one the largest domain name portfolios in the world, the NameFind-GoDaddy portfolio. “Learn how one of the largest domain investors …
Read More »Fabulous.com is migrating to a new website
Fabulous.com sent out a notice that it will be migrating to a new website on Wednesday, February 28. The site will be unavailable for a bit on this day. Migration updates will be posted via …
Read More »Donuts acquires the .TRAVEL domain name extension
Donuts Inc. today announced it has acquired the .TRAVEL domain name extension from registry operator Tralliance Registry Management Company. The .TRAVEL domain becomes Donuts’ 239th TLD, and the centerpiece of an already-robust portfolio of travel …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: stem cell, marijuana, dispensary, association
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of January 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keywords in the 2 …
Read More »20 applicants of .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL will each get a $185,000 refund from ICANN
ICANN will not delegate the strings .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL in the 2012 round of the New gTLD Program. The ICANN Board has directed the President and CEO to, upon withdrawal of the remaining 20 …
Read More »92% of NGOs have a website (68% use a .org domain, 8% use a .com domain)
Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the .org and .ngo registry, today released the results of the third annual Global NGO Technology Report, an annual research project that analyzes how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
Read More »Verisign ended 2017 with 146.4 million .com and .net domains (up 2.9%)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2017. Financial Highlights Verisign ended 2017 with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $2.4 billion, an increase of $617 million …
Read More ».London domains launch online business community portal
Dot London, the official domain name for the United Kingdom capital, has launched a new interactive portal on makeyours.london to help showcase the small businesses using Dot London web addresses and empower those looking to …
Read More »Top 5 domain name articles of 2017 (Frank Schilling, bitcoin and .xyz, Rick Schwartz, Uniregistry, .XYZ)
These are the top 5 domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions and few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a …
Read More »DNForum.com and its database is for sale
DNForum.com and its database is for sale and will be sold this week. I would never touch this AD infected swampland. Here is what the email I received said: DNForum.com and it’s Database of 535,000 …
Read More »Here is one of the first $88 domain name appraisals from Mike Mann
This is one of the first domain name appraisals from Mike Mann’s AccurateAppraisals.com. Appraisals cost $88 for each domain name and the final price is the average price from 3 appraisers. The domain name RegentStreet.com …
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