Domain Name News

“Domain Name Rights Coalition“, a new organization protecting the rights of domain name registrants was founded. The organization says it is “dedicated to protecting the rights of Internet Domain Name Registrants and fight for fair …

Namejet released it’s January 2018 domain name auctions report that includes many 1-word and 2-word domains and a few numerics. Namejet sold 103 (141 domains in December) domains in January for a total of $459,009 …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported complete financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2017. GoDaddy’s domain name revenue grew by almost 14% in 2017. Revenue grew from $927.8 million in 2016 to …

Another clueless “buyer” has arrived. What else is new? He asked if I was selling one of my domain names and what the price was. I replied with a $9,500 quote. All good this far… …

Google announced that they have started offering automatic ads called “AdSense Auto ads”. AdSense Auto ads is a new way to place ads on your website. Auto ads use machine learning to make smart placement …

DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC:DGTW) provided a condensed update on the status of the SmartWeb initiative and the start of Blockchain tokenization of the Company’s domain name portfolio. In May 2017, DigitalTown launched an initiative called SmartWeb …

Knock Knock Whois There (KKWT), the .blog registry, is teaming up with Automattic, its parent company and the company behind WordPress.com, to bring a higher awareness and usage of new TLDs through the launch of …

Escrow.com sales volume went down 25% from $24M to $18M. According to Escrow.com, the most traded category in Q4 was 3C .com domains ($6.4M), followed by 4Ls at $4.6M and 3N .com domains at $3.97M, …

Here are the first 10 domain name appraisals from Mike Mann and AccurateAppraisals.com. The average price of the 10 appraisals was $340,062. The lowest price was $68,221 and the highest price was $1,261,555. RegentStreet.com $246,555 …

In January the most popular articles were about Topcoin, GoDaddy violating ICANN rules AND having no mobile APP, CryptoWorld.com selling for $195,000, New gTLDs, Home.Loans selling for $500,000 and some other subjects. About 220 comments …

Since December last year, Efty has been offering SSL certificates for all custom marketplace sites on the Growth and Professional plans and as of today, they’ve made it possible to start redirecting buyers to SSL secured …

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the fourth quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 332.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs),  an increase of  approximately …

Mike Mann reported selling 17 domain names in January for a total of $416,716. Prices started at $4,888 and went up to $195,000. Highest reported sale was CryptoWorld.com for $195,000. All 17 of the sold …

Paul Nicks talked in Las Vegas during NamesCon 2018 about how it is like operating one the largest domain name portfolios in the world, the NameFind-GoDaddy portfolio. “Learn how one of the largest domain investors …