A UDRP complaint was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for Rick Schwartz’s domain name Queen.com. The complaint was filed by a company named Knud Jepsen A/S from Denmark. The flower company is …
Read More »GoDaddy completes acquisition of Host Europe Group
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today announced the completion of its acquisition of Host Europe Group (HEG). GoDaddy Inc. paid €1.69 billion (US$1.79 billion) to acquire Host Europe Group (HEG), including €605 million paid to the …
Read More »Rightside publishes list of 53 domain sales from $10k up to $183k for video.games
Rightside published a list of their New gTLD domain name sales. They released a full list of every five- and six-figure direct Platinum domain sale they are allowed to publish. Just a few of these …
Read More ».NYC to auction 26 tech domains in May (Cloud .nyc, Web .nyc, Startup .nyc)
Auctions.nyc and the City of New York will have their 3rd auction of premium .NYC domains. This time 26 tech related domain names like Cloud.nyc, Web.nyc and Startup.nyc will be auctioned. It is not yet …
Read More »Too little, too late: Uniregistry will offer price protection on 9 domain extensions
Uniregistry issued a press release today that was pretty difficult to understand until you reached the end of it. And even then it is pretty cryptic. In essence they mumbled that grandfathering existing registrations was …
Read More ».VIP gets 200,000 new domain registrations worth $1.3 million
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported today orders for over 200,000 new registrations in its .vip top-level domain valued at US$1.3 million. The orders comprise both standard names and premium names, including 61 …
Read More »Inside the offices of GoDaddy (videos)
GoDaddy made 3 videos that give everyone a sneak peak inside the offices of GoDaddy and listen to the people that work in the biggest domain name registrar in the world. The videos were shot …
Read More »“Preferably call me in the afternoon and speak Spanish.”
I got one of those usual messages on one of my domains from someone that has clearly the wrong website and complains. But this time the response got me laughing… So the inquiry I got …
Read More »Escrow.com offers chat support through the KYC verification process
Escrow.com now offers chat support while customers are commencing the KYC verification process. Escrow said that its aim is to offer as much support as possible. A few months back, Escrow.com started asking for all …
Read More »GoDaddy acquires Sucuri
GoDaddy Inc (NYSE: GDDY), announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase Sucuri, a leading provider of website security products and services. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Sucuri is a security …
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Google new spam policy: Expired domain abuse
Google announced the March 2024 core update that they claim is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find useful. They also shared that Google has new spam policies to better handle …
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Buyer of Cofounders .com shares his thought process
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Ladies and gentlemen this is Rick Schwartz
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7 things Jordan Fried learned about domains (Owner of NFT.com and PuertoRico.com)
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Mike Mann says GoDaddy domain appraisals are a total scam and a racket
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Upcoming changes to Dan.com
GoDaddy and DAN want to move towards a simplified Aftermarket experience so they are announcing three upcoming changes to Dan.com. 1. Payout Currency Selection Starting on July 5th, you can choose a preferred payout currency in your payout settings. This enables payouts in either US Dollars (USD), Great British Pounds …
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Dan.com landers are now available on Afternic
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DAN: Import Lease to Own (LTO) transactions with a 10% commission
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7 things Jordan Fried learned about domains (Owner of NFT.com and PuertoRico.com)
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Liquid market report Q4 2022: $11.4M in Escrow.com sales