Domain Name News

The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q3/2021 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. Highlights …

Spamhaus published the latest report for the most abused top-level domains in botnets from Q4 2021: A new entry at #4 We don’t often see new TLD entries within the top five of this Botnet …

DAN announced today a new partnership with Payoneer. “Payoneer handles bank payouts and more for millions of marketplace users of platforms like Airbnb and Amazon.” From today on, you can add Payoneer as a payout …

Dynadot emailed customers saying that customer data was not impacted by the 150Gbps DDoS attack. Although Dynadot had DDoS protection in place, it was not capable of blocking an attack of this size. You can …

Mike Mann reported 4 of his domain name sales in December 2021 for a total of $196,188. Reported prices started at $15,000 and went up to $140,000. Mike sold 4 .com domains. The average reported …

Tucows issued an apology regarding the Enom outage. Enom had a large-scale data center migration that caused many different issues. You can see the Tucows apology here: Beginning Saturday, January 15, 2022, Enom experienced a …

CentralNic Group plc announced that following its significant investment programme, the Company’s organic growth has further accelerated during the fourth quarter of 2021, resulting in year-on-year organic revenue growth of 37% for the full year …

Web Hosting Canada has announced the official launch of its .CA domain name backordering platform. Canadians can use the new tool to register .CA domain names the second they expire and before they become available to …

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 22nd edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key …

Mike Mann made a few posts on social media about the GoDaddy automated domain name appraisal tool, calling it a total scam and a racket. I can’t say I blame him. I have written numerous …

This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …

Squadhelp released its 2021 report. Their premium listings grew from about 70,000 listings at the beginning of 2021 to about 123,000 listings at the end of the year. This represents about 71% growth in the …

Activist investor Starboard Value LP purchased a 6.5% stake in web services firm GoDaddy Inc worth about $800 million, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Starboard said that GoDaddy’s …

CIIDRC announced that Zak Muscovitch has joined CIIDRC’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panel. CIIDRC is the Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre. CIIDRC is one of the 6 approved Dispute Resolution Service Providers for complaints …