Domain Name News

Namecheap After years of being #1 in this Top 20, Namecheap (US) continues to be the preferred domain registrar for miscreants registering botnet C&C domains. Spamhaus believes that given the long history of abuse at …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2021. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $324 million for the first quarter of 2021, up 3.6 percent from …

This has happened to me many times but I have never written about it before. Whenever I sell a domain name through GoDaddy or Afternic when the wire arrives in Greece it gets stuck at …

Nominet has appointed independent research company Savanta to carry out a “major piece of research to understand the perspectives of members and stakeholders on the future of Nominet”. “The outputs from the listening process will …

For Q1 2021, the gTLD .com remains at the top of the Spamhaus rankings. A large majority of botnet C&C domains that Spamhaus Malware Labs identified were hosted on this TLD. However, we have seen …

Beginning in July, 2021, FeedBurner will go into maintenance mode. Existing feeds will continue to serve indefinitely, and existing users can download past usage statistics and email subscriptions. Users will still be able to create …

Squarespace, Inc. announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed direct listing of its Class A common stock. …

Mike Mann had a very good month in March and that was mainly because of a 6-figure domain sale of a 2-word domain. Mike Mann reported 14 of his domain name sales in March 2021 …

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 17th 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 …

DNWE made some big changes a few days ago to its marketplace and the domain name submission flow to both curated and non-curated domains for sale. Here are all the changes: One Marketplace Now there’s …

Yesterday it was announced that GoDaddy is acquiring 28 New gTLDs from MMX, .Club and .Design from the Top Level Design registry. Top Level Design shared today some more details on the sale of .design …

Minds + Machines (MMX) shared more details today on the proposed sale of 28 New gTLDs (and other assets) to GoDaddy for $120 million. The 28 New gTLDs that are the subject of the proposed …

GoDaddy Registry today announced that it is acquiring the .club and .design domain extensions, as well as 28 domain extensions (and certain other business assets) owned and operated by Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). …

Jeff Sass, .CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, announced today that GoDaddy is acquiring the .Club domain extension. This was frankly expected as single New gTLD domain extensions are more expensive to run (and smaller profit margins) …