Domain Name News

A former Pirate Bay domain name was sold for $50,000 in an auction that ended today. The auction was held at DropCatch.com that catches and auctions dropped domain names after they expire. The domain name …

GoDaddy acquires SkyVerge, the leading partner developer of WooCommerce a WordPress eCommerce plugin. GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyVerge, a leading WooCommerce product developer. Financial details …

NamesCon (owned by GoDaddy) quietly removed Neha Gupta from the NamesCon Online “Women in Domaining” session she was originally scheduled to speak at. It happened on Thursday or Friday. I am not sure as I …

I will not be attending NamesCon online until Neha Gupta, Namaxis Pvt. Ltd., is removed from the speakers list or she says she is sorry for the front running she did. I didn’t know that …

Radix registry shared its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2020. The report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st January 2020 till 30th …

CentralNic Group Plc (AIM: CNIC) announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2020. Both revenue and Adjusted EBITDA have increased year-on-year, driven by a combination of acquisitions and underlying organic …

Mike Mann shared today (September 3, 2020) his year-to-date sales total. In the past few months Mike Mann dropped about 50,000 domains from his 350,000 (about 14%) and now has 300,000 domains in his portfolio. …

Scammers are shopping around GoDaddy expired domains while they are in auction. Today’s scammer uses the domain hugedomain.co.uk for his email address possibly to imply an association with Huge Domains. (that uses HugeDomains.com) I got …

19 new domains were added in the past few days in the NamesCon auction but the auction list is still pretty week with only about 10 days left until the live auction. Some domains are …

Mike Mann talks with Alex Pires, American lawyer and entrepreneur, and then Krista Gable, former professional dominatrix and domain investor. This was Mike Mann’s 4th live video on YouTube. See here Mike Mann’s 1st live …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, …

19 new domains were added in the NamesCon auction but the auction list is still pretty week with only about 2 weeks left until the live auction. Some domains are really hard for me to …

The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q2/2020 has been published. The report covers the status and trends in all top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). Highlights from the report European …

Efty’s DAN.COM integration is now live for all Efty users as announced. Doron Vermaat, Efty Co-Founder & Head of Product, said that the the first successful transaction that was processed through this partnership was the sale …