Donuts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. The announcement came after ICANN approved the change of control of Afilias. “Now under one corporate structure, the two companies will continue to …
Read More »Donuts agrees to purchase Afilias
Donuts Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Afilias, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The transaction, which will not include Afilias’ mobile software and registrar businesses, is expected to close in …
Read More »17 new Donuts New gTLDs licensed in China
Donuts announced 17 more New gTLDs were licensed to sell in China. Donuts now has 42 New gTLDs licensed in China. The following Donuts New gTLDs were selected for licensing in collaboration with strategic registrar …
Read More »Minds + Machines revenue drops 5%
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced the Group’s unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2020. Commenting on the results, Toby Hall, CEO of MMX, said: “As a Group …
Read More ».Blog will release 47,000 3-character premium domains
.Blog will soon release 47,000 3-character “premium” domain names. All 3-character .blog domains were reserved when .blog launched almost 4 years ago. That was simply a very bad move. The hype has since sailed and …
Read More »Radix had $1.96M in revenue in the first half of 2020
Radix registry shared its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2020. The report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st January 2020 till 30th …
Read More ».Gay releases launch plan
Top Level Design, the .gay registry, has released its launch plan for the new domain name extension launch in September. Early Access Period (EAP) for .gay starts on September 8, 2020. General Availability (GA) is …
Read More ».Club Q1 and Q2 domain name sales report
The .Club domain name registry released its Q1 and Q2 2020 domain name sales report. Here is the complete .club report: The first half of 2020 has presented immense challenges to individuals and businesses everywhere …
Read More ».Cars .Car and .Auto to be sold in a no reserve auction
.Cars .Car and .Auto to be sold in a no reserve auction at Innovative Auctions. Launched in 2015, .Cars .Car and .Auto, are a joint venture between XYZ Registry and UNR Corp. The 2 companies …
Read More »“Is the lockdown driving domain registrations?”
Numbers from CENTR show a spike in new registrations in the month of April 2020. A sample of 25 European ccTLDs saw a 20% increase in new domains registered in April 2020 from the same …
Read More »2019 report: Domain market grows – Registrar consolidation increases
CENTR has published the CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q4/2019 . The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European …
Read More »Donuts migrates backend operations to Amazon Web Services
Donuts Inc. has announced its migration of backend operations to the cloud. Donuts’ registry now operates on Amazon Web Services and is probably the first major registry backend operator to migrate an existing on-premises backend …
Read More »Donuts sells my.life for $175,000
Donuts announced today that it sold the domain name my.life for $175,000. The domain was purchased on March 31, 2020. Donuts is the registry of more than 200 domain name extensions and the domain name …
Read More »GoDaddy acquires Neustar’s registry business
Goodbye Neustar! Hello GoDaddy Registry! GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today announced it is acquiring Neustar Inc’s Registry business. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2020. …
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