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 …
Read More ».Cloud turns 5 today and releases Premium Domain Sales Report
.Cloud turns 5 today and just released its first ever Premium Domain Sales Report. The .cloud top-level domain (TLD) was launched on February 16, 2016, when it opened the door for general availability registrations. 2020 …
Read More »RADIX reports $2M revenue
RADIX shared its bi-annual premium report for the second half of 2020. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the RADIX nTLD portfolio from 1st July 2020 till 31st December …
Read More »Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs
Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs and getting out of domain names completely after selling Uniregistry and his domain name portfolio to GoDaddy last year. UNR (the name of the registry) has setup …
Read More »Ethos Capital acquires Donuts Inc.
Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehadé, Co-CEOs of Ethos Capital, made the announcement today that Ethos Capital is going to acquire controlling interest of Donuts Inc. Last month Donuts completed the acquisition of Afilias. Here is …
Read More »Stats about the .blog New gTLD extension
The .blog registry, Knock Knock WHOIS There, shared some stats about the quality of the New gTLD extension. Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC is a subsidiary of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Jetpack. It …
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