Domain Name News

EURid released its 2019 Quarterly Progress Report. .EU is shrinking ending Q2 2019 with 3,623,691 domain registrations. The extension had 3,790,450 domains ending Q2 2018. But you will not find this number comparison in the …

Mike Mann reported selling 4 domain names in June for a total of $144,720. Prices started at $9,944 and went up to $94,888. Mike Mann sold 4 .com domains which you can see further below. …

I noticed that the gtld.link domain name forum has been offline for a few months now. I checked out archive.org and the website was last archived on March 8, 2019. I think it is safe …

Radix shared its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2019. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix New gTLD portfolio from 1st January 2019 until 30th …

Yes, Google keeps dumping more mobile apps. After announcing it will be discontinuing the AdSense Android and iOS apps it now announced that it stopped supporting Google Trips on August 5, 2019. Google Trips has …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of July 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …

In case you missed it last week NamesCon announced that NamesCon Global 2020 has a new date than it was previously announced. NamesCon 2020 is now scheduled to start on the day it was supposed to …

EURid announced that it will soon launch a new extension that is probably the worst extension ever created. They think that they are launching .eu in Greek (.ευ). But what they are really launching is …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “The second quarter of 2019 was highlighted by year-over-year growth in revenue and …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019 and the appointment of Aman Bhutani, previously President of Brand Expedia Group, as the company’s new CEO, effective September 4th, 2019. …

Undeveloped.com re-branded to DAN.com and the company says it was well worth it judging by the first month results. It would be interesting to know if removing the “.com” from the logo on the landing …

I sold a domain name using the Escrow.com domain name holding transaction service for about $10k. You can read all the details here: “What to do? A default in a domain name holding transaction“. Long story …

CentralNic Group PLC (AIM: CNIC) announced that, further to the announcement released on 1 July 2019, the acquisition of the Hexonet Group is now complete. Hexonet, with operations in Canada and Germany, sells domain name subscriptions …

Epik issued a press release today explaining the timeline of events regarding 8Chan and how Epik decided not to host the 8Chan website on its BitMitigate service. 8Chan’s main website is 8ch.net that is not currently resolving after …