Domain Name News

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today announced a plugin bundle expansion for its Managed WordPress Ecommerce customers, featuring free access to a library of over 75 premium WooCommerce extensions. The new extensions come from GoDaddy’s recent …

An article co-authored by Zak Muscovitch, General Counsel of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) and Nat Cohen busts some of the most common domain name secondary market myths. The Secondary Market, where already registered domain …

Google announced that Search Console has an enhanced Association page within the settings menu. Association is a connection between a Search Console property, and some other entity or property in another Google service: for example, …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Wando Internet Solutions GmbH (“Wando”) for an initial consideration of EUR 5.4m (c.USD 6.5m) (the “Acquisition”). The transaction is …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) (“GoDaddy”) today announced that its subsidiaries, Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC and GD Finance Co, Inc. (the “Issuers”), intend to offer, subject to market and other considerations, $800 million aggregate principal …

Afternic had a security issue on Thursday, February 12 when a security researcher contacted the company about a potential issue with a Web API. Afternic claims that no password or credit card information was at …

What is going on with Clubhouse? Is this good for the domain name community or not? Clubhouse is an invitation-only audio-chat social networking app launched in 2020 by software developers Alpha Exploration Co. It is …

Public Interest Registry, the .ORG registry, today launched the DNS Abuse Institute as part of its ongoing efforts to protect Internet users from the threat of DNS Abuse such as malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and …

.Cloud turns 5 today and just released its first ever Premium Domain Sales Report. The .cloud top-level domain (TLD) was launched on February 16, 2016, when it opened the door for general availability registrations. 2020 …

A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the …

BODIS now resolves HTTPS requests for over 6M host names. How It Works: When a visitor arrives to an HTTPS page for the first time, Bodis adds that host name to a queue. Within minutes, …

Verisign announced today in its fourth quarter and full year 2020 results that it plans to increase the price of .com in 2021. Verisign will increase the annual registry-level wholesale fee for each new and …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2020. Fourth Quarter Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $320 million for the fourth quarter of …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2020. “2020 was a really strong year for our business despite the obvious challenges, as our customers proved …