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Mike Mann announced on Twitter that he sold the domain name Ready.org for a 6-figure price. He actually announced the sale again a few days back but he deleted that tweet. I guess he was …

Enom registrar, that is owned by Tucows, has announced that it will be changing the reseller price structure effective as of April 1st, 2020. My understanding (from the not so clear info given by Enom) …

EURid released its Q4 2019 Progress Report sharing the quarterly statistics, developments, and overview of the .eu website categorization study. Highlights include: Three major releases; 161 690 new domain name registrations recorded; Norway tops the …

DAN.COM announced today a new feature giving sellers the option for fully automated ownership verification for domain listings. The fully automated ownership verification is accomplished by adding a unique verification nameserver (different for every DAN …

I have been reporting Mike Mann’s domain sales monthly for almost 4 years. Every couple of months there is someone that will say something like “Mike’s sales are fake”, “if these sales were real then …

Ethos Capital senses that ICANN will deny their sweet .org acquisition deal and starts making promises left and right. Or they just made a deal with ICANN to makes these promises so that ICANN approves …

Mike Mann reported selling 3 domain names in January for a total of $79,888. Prices started at $9,888 and went up to $38,000. Mike Mann sold 3 .com domains which you can see further below. …

2 domain name conferences are coming in August 2020 one in Europe and one in the US: NamesCon Europe 2020 and Rick Schwartz’s 2nd Annual Asheville Domain Investor Meet-up and Family Outing. NamesCon Europe 2020 …

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 14th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of …

After the announcement of the Uniregistry acquisition by GoDaddy some people commented that the acquisition price would be around $50m to $100m. I don’t think the price was near this level. Here is my (extremely) …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2019. Total revenue of $780.4 million, up 12.2% year over year. Domains revenue of $352.3 million, up 12.1% year …

Please act now. The comment period for the proposed price increases of .com closes tomorrow Friday, February 14, 2020. I could have written a lot more about this as I wrote about .org but I …

Josh Reason is launching the Domain Name Wholesale Exchange (DNWE). The new platform aims to bring a better wholesale experience to domain investors. The exchange is a domain platform built entirely for domainers so the …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today announced it is acquiring Uniregistry’s domain registrar and marketplace businesses. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close sometime in Q2 2020. The Uniregistry …