Domain Name News

Donuts Inc., today announced that it has closed a $110 million credit facility led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group), and with participation from Cadence Bank, N.A., Comerica Bank, Pacific Western Bank, and Umpqua Bank.  This debt …

Rick Schwartz sent out a tweet yesterday saying: “I NEVER buy a #domain asking question: Is this $1k domain worth $2k? I ask a completely different question & get different result!!” Of course I immediately …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Revenue went up compared to Q2 2016 after the Enom acquisition from …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. “GoDaddy successfully delivered another solid quarter with continued organic customer, revenue and cash flow growth,” said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. …

Today, MMX launched the Community Priority Phase for the new .boston top level domain. This phase gives local nonprofit organizations and government entities a chance to apply for their organization’s .boston domain name by registering …

Namejet released it’s July 2017 domain name auctions report that includes mostly 2, 3 and 4 character domains and fewer numerics. Namejet sold 92 (129 domains in June) domains in July for a total of …

These are the top domain name articles from July 2017. July was a good month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views. Also more than 350 comments were made by readers. OnlineDomain.com celebrated its 5 year anniversary …

Mike Mann talked on Facebook how he goes about repricing 150,000 of his domain names. Prices for most of his domains are going down but prices for the best ones are going way up: “In …

Last Thursday (27 July), Dynadot hosted its first San Francisco Domain Meetup. It was held at Triple Voodoo Brewery in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco. Dynadot was excited to host domain investors, startups, and …

Bruce Breger wrote on Facebook that the winning bidder of Emojis.com on Namejet contacted him 10 minutes after the auction ended. The winner told Bruce that he got carried away in his bidding and asked …

Andrew Rosener replied to a comment left by Mike Mann on Facebook revealing some details about his domain name investing business. Mike Mann said: “I took over the premium .Com industry again while everyone was …

EFF and Public Knowledge released a whitepaper titled Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners? Top-level domains are the letters after the dot, like .com, .uk, .biz, or .mobi. In the Internet’s …

I got a tip from a reader about an auction that GoDaddy is running for the domain name killchildren.com. I visited GoDaddy auctions only to find more domains like this: All 4 domains (.com, .net, …

HTC, a mobile phone manufacturer, sent a letter asking The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to terminate the .HTC registry and extension. HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, …