Domain Name News

Buzzfeed is threatening Mike Mann and his Tasty.com. Seems like Buzzfeed, that is running Tasty.co, wants to upgrade from the .co to the .com by stealing a domain name that was registered and owned by Mike …

Last week Dispute.com was auctioned at GoDaddy auctions for $65,000 but the winning bidder could not make payment in the time frame that GoDaddy requires. Eventually the domain went to the 6th bidder that paid …

GDPR COOLS DOWN REPORTED SALES: As GDPR takes effect, Escrow.com reports the lowest volume of sales since the start of LXDO. GGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 2nd quarter of 2018 Liquid Domains Market …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of July 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There was no common keyword in the 2 …

Dave Evanson, a Sedo broker, announced today they the domain name Christian.com sold at Sedo for $600,000. The domain is still parked at Sedo and whois at GoDaddy still shows the Sedo Transfer Service as the owner, …

Mike Mann reported selling 6 domain names in July for a total of $82,440. Prices started at $4,888 and went up to $29,888. 4 of the domains were .com and 2 domains were .net. Usually …

A few weeks ago DomainTools added in its database its one billionth unique domain name. Celebrating the unique occasion Domain Tools shared some very interesting and fun statistics about registration numbers and keywords: For context, there …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “The second quarter once again saw solid performances from each of our businesses,” …

Donuts offered some insights about their premium domain names. The only insight I got, and that comes as no surprise, is that people have been and are (always) registering bad domains. Donuts is generally characterizing …

Escrow.com announced the launch of its latest feature “Escrow Pay”, a streamlined checkout payment system for buying and selling cars, boats, airplanes, domains and anything of value, in one line of code. Escrow Pay is …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced that a German appeal court (Appellate Court of Cologne) has issued a decision on the injunction proceedings ICANN initiated against EPAG, a Germany-based, ICANN-accredited registrar …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement that will enable Ethereum’s Ethereum Name Service (“ENS”) to be integrated into the services marketed by registrars to consumers …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018. “GoDaddy successfully delivered another solid quarter with continued customer, revenue, and cash flow growth,” said GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner. “We are making …

At the recent SUP-X, The Startup Expo held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jeff Sass had the opportunity to give an open workshop session on “Tips for Better Branding your Startup.” “With the proliferation of new …