Domain Name News

Dan and MediaOptions announce partnership

Dan.com and MediaOptions announced a new partnership. The partnership is intended to combine Dan.com’s domain marketplace together with MediaOptions’ enterprise-level domain brokerage services in order to boost sales for participating portfolio owners. “Our partnership provides …

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Liquid market report Q3 2021: $20.4M in Escrow.com sales

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 20th 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 …

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Afnic renewed as registry for .fr

Afnic has been reappointed as the registry of .fr. The precise terms and conditions for implementing Afnic’s proposals for the management and development of .fr are currently being drafted as part of a new agreement …

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DAN and NamesCon announce 5 new awards

DAN.com together with NamesCon announced 5 new awards given to five domain community members for their great achievements and community-driven spirit. The winners are: The award for the most data-driven domainer of the year 2021 …

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Epik hack update (plus a video)

Epik domains

According to what I have read and seen the Epik data leak includes credit card numbers, registered names, whois data, whois privacy data, usernames, emails, passwords, failed password attempts, auth codes, etc. Pretty much EVERYTHING …

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Epik was hacked

Epik domains

Yes, it appears that the registrar Epik was hacked by a group called Anonymous. Yes, there was a website at epikfail.win with the info you can see below. (Website is now down.) Yes, there are …

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