Domain Name News

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. “GoDaddy sits in a privileged position relative to a massive opportunity, strengthened by our differentiation in guidance, seamlessly intuitive experiences, and …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Financial Results Net revenue for the third quarter of 2019 increased 6% to …

In the past couple of days I have received 3 similar offers for 3 completely different types of domains and extensions. All 3 offers were for $10k but the domains and my asking prices are …

Namecheap Inc. filed a reconsideration request (Request 19-2) challenging ICANN organization’s 2019 renewal of the Registry Agreements (RAs) with Public Interest Registry (PIR) and Afilias Limited (Afilias) for the .ORG and .INFO generic top-level domains …

EURid released its EURid’s Q3 2019 Progress Report, sharing its quarterly statistics and developments. Total registrations decreased from 3 623 691 at the end of Q2 to 3 617 536 at the end of Q3 …

Network Solutions suffered an extended data breach in August where a third-party gained unauthorized access to the NetSol computer systems. The breach was uncovered in October. Who knows what has happened in between and how …

It has been more than a year since Tucows launched the Tiered Access Compliance & Operations portal, sometimes called “Gated Whois,” and it’s been around six months since they shared their first set of statistics …

Escrow.com released the Domain Investment Index Q3 2019 report. Sales rose in Q3 despite the fact that summer is the slowest part of the year in terms of domain name sales. I expect sales in …

Mike Mann reported selling 6 domain names in September for a total of $125,940. Prices started at $4,888 and went up to $29,888. Mike Mann sold 6 .com domains which you can see further below. …

I won the auction of a domain name back in May for $79. Today after 5 months I still don’t have access to the domain name kymata.com. The domain name is not something remarkable and …

What is front-running and how does it apply to domain names? Last month the 10-day auction for domain name detour.com was supposed to end at GoDaddy. The bids were above $30k but the domain was …

Spamhaus has named .com the most abused top-level domain name extension in Botnets in Q3-2019. But it is not that simple as some additional stats show. The amount of newly detected botnet command & control …

Spamhaus has named Namecheap the most abused domain registrar in Botnets in Q3-2019. The main problem here is that Namecheap is number one abused registrar by a very wide margin from the other registrars. The …

Radix announced that it had acquired .UNO, a top-level domain that was previously operated by Dot Latin LLC. The ownership transfer was completed in September 2019. The domain extension will be available across Radix’s 200+ …