Domain Name News

Dynadot has started announcing aftermarket domain name sales. The report includes domain name sales from Expired Auctions, Backorder Auctions, User Auctions, Last Chance Auctions, and Marketplace listings. See the top 10 Aftermarket sales from September …

GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting was hacked and up to 1.2 million customers were exposed. Email addresses, customer numbers, usernames, passwords and SSL private keys were all exposed. And somehow GoDaddy either found out about this …

Namecheap announced the launch of its new domain market. Developed by the technology team at Namecheap, the platform allows professionals to search, find, and purchase domain names via in-house auctions or ‘Buy it now” listings. …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced the selection of four new members to its Advisory Council, which is composed of leaders and activists from a broad spectrum of mission-driven organizations around the world. The Advisory Council …

Nominet announced that Paul Fletcher will join as CEO.   Paul Fletcher is currently CEO at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, an organisation with 60,000 members. He will join Nominet in February 2022, bringing vital experience of working with a wide variety of …

Matt Wegrzyn, founder & CEO of Bodis, wrote a blog post implying that other PPC companies are copying its landing page templates and thus confusing Bodis customers. The companies mentioned were ParkingCrew and Sedo. You …

The .US ccTLD extension had its live town hall forum with the .US Stakeholder Council. The Town Hall had a rundown of the current state of the domain industry and .US specifically plus policy considerations …

Mike Mann reported 7 of his domain name sales in October 2021 for a total of $125,276. Reported prices started at $10,000 and went up to $34,000. Mike sold 7 .com domains. The average reported …

Namecheap announced that price increases are coming in most of their services in November 2021. Here is the announcement: After careful analysis of the market, and the impact it’s having on our growing hardware and …

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 …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021. “GoDaddy stepped out on the commerce stage in a big way with the hardware and payments offerings we launched in …

Domaining.com has been compromised and has issued a security alert on its website: BREACH SECURITY ALERT Domaining.com has been apparently compromised, login has been closed. We were not storing any CC data but change your …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2021. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $334 million for the third quarter of 2021, up 5.1 percent from …

I have no idea how many times I have written about GoDaddy and their remarkable incompetence. So once again here it is. This is what happened: A buyer told me he saw one of my …