GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Sky Business and discussed the boom in businesses building an online presence. Aman Bhutani talked about the domain name aftermarket, the secondary market and domain auctions. That is now …
Read More »GoDaddy Q1 2021 results: revenue up 13.8%, domains revenue up 18.8%
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. GoDaddy also announced that Mark McCaffrey will be joining the company as its new Chief Financial Officer and Michele Lau …
Read More »Frank Schilling sold his 23 New GTLDs for more than $40 million
Uni Naming & Registry Services (UNR.com) concluded the public sale of 23 Top Level Domains. Following its April 28-30 auction event, the company has announced gross receipts of more than $40 million USD for its …
Read More »NameSilo 2020 results: revenue is up by 14.3%, 3.9 million domains under management
NameSilo Technologies Corp. announced the financial results for the financial year ended December 31, 2020. Financial highlights of Namesilo in fiscal 2020 as set forth below: Revenues of $31,050,980 for fiscal 2020 as compared to …
Read More »Peter Sunde explains how a domain name was hijacked from Tucows and moved to Namecheap
Peter Sunde, co-creator of Njalla, created a Twitter thread explaining how the domain dark.fail (@DarkDotFail) got hijacked from Tucows and then moved to Namecheap. Njalla revealed yesterday that Tucows was the victim of a phishing …
Read More »Hijacked domains: Tucows and Njalla fell victims of a phishing attack
Njalla revealed today that Tucows was the victim of a phishing attack that affected some domains registered with Njalla and other resellers and registrants. Tucows received a (fake) court order (including a gag order) to …
Read More »Google search: More details on the page experience update
Last November Google announced that the page experience ranking signal will go live on Google Search this year, in what they’re calling the “page experience update”. To help publishers and site owners improve their page …
Read More »$110m domain name transactions at Escrow.com in Q1 2021
Escrow.com released the Domain Investment Index for Q1 2021. The Q1 2021 trading volume of $110m was led by sales of a record number of large domain name portfolios as well as sales of high …
Read More »NamesCon Online is coming back in September
The 2nd edition of NamesCon Online is coming on September 22-24, 2021. Registration is now open and the cost is $79 until July 4. (Standard price is $99) Newcomers can complete a quick survey and …
Read More »There are now more than 500.000 .gr domains
The .gr registry announced that .gr reached a new milestone on April 21, 2021. There are now more than 500.000 .gr domain names registered. In the past 10 years .gr domain registrations almost doubled. The …
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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