See here the most abused top-level domains at Botnets, Q3 2021. No changes at the top of the chart In Q3, .com and .xyz continued to stay at the top of our ranking. The situation …
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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 …
Read More »DAN’s domain name registrar is coming soon
DAN offered a sneak peak into the upcoming domain name registrar services that are expected in 2021. “The first step in our journey to offer registrar services is to create one central place for you …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Donuts domain trend report: September 2021
This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …
Read More »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 …
Read More »The Afternic premium network list is a MESS
You know that list of registrars that Afternic claims to have on their Afternic Premium Network that are using Fast-Transfer (FT)? Well it turns out the list is either completely outdated or it was inaccurate …
Read More »CentralNic acquires network of revenue generating websites
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a publishing network of revenue generating websites (“Publishing Network”) for a consideration of USD 6.5m in cash and assumed working …
Read More »Naomi Osaka was the keynote speaker at GoDaddy OPEN 2021
Today, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), hosted GoDaddy OPEN 2021, an online event for small business owners to learn, connect and grow their businesses. In a special fireside chat, GoDaddy CMO Fara Howard sat down with …
Read More »TLD Report Q2/2021: share of .com within all gTLDs has increased in the past 3 years
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q2/2021 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 …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 7 domains for $99,114 in August
Mike Mann reported 7 of his domain name sales in August 2021 for a total of $99,114. Reported prices started at $1,888 and went up to $30,000. Mike sold 7 .com domains. The average reported …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Epik hack update (plus a video)
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 …
Read More »Epik was hacked
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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