Overview of global trends and an analysis of the mechanisms at work during the health crisis. The global domain name market accounted for approximately 349 million domain names at the end of December 2020, up 1.3% compared …
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Domain name trend report: May 2021
This is a great report to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current portfolio. Top 20 …
Read More »IRP panel dismisses Afilias’ claims to reverse .WEB auction and award .WEB to Afilias
Verisign released the following announcement today: On Thursday, May 20, a final decision was issued in the Independent Review Process (IRP) brought by Afilias against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), rejecting …
Read More ».MUSIC signs registry agreement with ICANN
DotMusic Limited, the Cyprus company formed to own and operate the new .MUSIC community-based top-level domain name (TLD), announced it has signed its .MUSIC Registry Agreement with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …
Read More »MMX 2020 results: Brokered and AdultBlock revenue decreases, New gTLD renewal rates plummet
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2020. MMX admitted the the AdultBlock revenue decreased in 2020 by $0.4m to $0.5m. So this dubious business model …
Read More ».London moves from Nominet to CentralNic
CentralNic has been awarded a project by Dot London Domains Limited, a subsidiary of London & Partners, the business growth and destination agency for London. London & Partners operates the .London top-level domain (TLD). London …
Read More »Frank Schilling sold his 23 New GTLDs for more than $40 million
Uni Naming & Registry Services (UNR.com) concluded the public sale of 23 Top Level Domains. Following its April 28-30 auction event, the company has announced gross receipts of more than $40 million USD for its …
Read More »Spamhaus Botnet threat update: Most abused top-level domains, Q1 2021
For Q1 2021, the gTLD .com remains at the top of the Spamhaus rankings. A large majority of botnet C&C domains that Spamhaus Malware Labs identified were hosted on this TLD. However, we have seen …
Read More »More details on the .design sale
Yesterday it was announced that GoDaddy is acquiring 28 New gTLDs from MMX, .Club and .Design from the Top Level Design registry. Top Level Design shared today some more details on the sale of .design …
Read More »More details on the $120 million sale of 28 New gTLDs to GoDaddy
Minds + Machines (MMX) shared more details today on the proposed sale of 28 New gTLDs (and other assets) to GoDaddy for $120 million. The 28 New gTLDs that are the subject of the proposed …
Read More »GoDaddy acquires 28 New gTLDs from MMX, .Design and .Club
GoDaddy Registry today announced that it is acquiring the .club and .design domain extensions, as well as 28 domain extensions (and certain other business assets) owned and operated by Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). …
Read More »GoDaddy is acquiring the .Club domain extension
Jeff Sass, .CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, announced today that GoDaddy is acquiring the .Club domain extension. This was frankly expected as single New gTLD domain extensions are more expensive to run (and smaller profit margins) …
Read More »MMX trying to sell 725k of mostly worthless domains using Estibot appraisals
MMX (Minds + Machines) announced ‘The Great Release’ which moves 725k “premium names” to their standard pricing. These are the New gTLD domains that nobody bought and MMX is now using Estibot appraisals to convince …
Read More »2020 ended with 366.3 million domains on all TLDs
According to Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief, the .com and .net registry, the fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain …
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