VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2021. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $334 million for the third quarter of 2021, up 5.1 percent from …
Read More »A disastrous mixup with GoDaddy and Afternic domain pricing!!!
I have no idea how many times I have written about GoDaddy and their remarkable incompetence. So once again here it is. This is what happened: A buyer told me he saw one of my …
Read More »ICA files comment on ICANN proposals to deprive registrants of recourse to court following IGO UDRPs
In response to ICANN’s request for comments from stakeholders, the ICA filed its Comment, on the Initial Report on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs. This is an important issue that the ICA has been …
Read More »Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused domain registrars, Q3 2021
See below the most abused domain name registrars at Botnets in Q3 2021. Read here Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused top-level domains, Q3 2021 There were significant increases across most of the domain registrars listed …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $54,888 in September
Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in September 2021 for a total of $54,888. Reported prices started at $19,888 and went up to $35,000. Mike sold 2 .com domains. The average reported …
Read More »EURid wins the European Commission call for .eu registry
EURid announced it has again been selected by the European Commission to continue as the .eu TLD`s registry manager through to October 2027. In May of 2021, EURid submitted its application to the EC call …
Read More »CentralNic reports organic growth of 29%
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that, following its significant investment programme, the Company’s organic growth has further accelerated during the nine months to 30 September 2021, resulting in organic growth of 29% against the …
Read More »Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused top-level domains, Q3 2021
See here the most abused top-level domains at Botnets, Q3 2021. No changes at the top of the chart In Q3, .com and .xyz continued to stay at the top of our ranking. The situation …
Read More »Dan and MediaOptions announce partnership
Dan.com and MediaOptions announced a new partnership. The partnership is intended to combine Dan.com’s domain marketplace together with MediaOptions’ enterprise-level domain brokerage services in order to boost sales for participating portfolio owners. “Our partnership provides …
Read More »DAN’s domain name registrar is coming soon
DAN offered a sneak peak into the upcoming domain name registrar services that are expected in 2021. “The first step in our journey to offer registrar services is to create one central place for you …
Read More »Liquid market report Q3 2021: $20.4M in Escrow.com sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 20th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key …
Read More »Donuts domain trend report: September 2021
This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …
Read More »Afnic renewed as registry for .fr
Afnic has been reappointed as the registry of .fr. The precise terms and conditions for implementing Afnic’s proposals for the management and development of .fr are currently being drafted as part of a new agreement …
Read More »The Afternic premium network list is a MESS
You know that list of registrars that Afternic claims to have on their Afternic Premium Network that are using Fast-Transfer (FT)? Well it turns out the list is either completely outdated or it was inaccurate …
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