Nominet, the .UK registry, has today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to 31 October 2021. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain …
Read More »PIR acquires .GIVING, partners with DONUTS
Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced an expansion of its registry portfolio of top-level domains. PIR’s acquired the New gTLD extension .GIVING from Giving Limited. Once the transfer is finalized, PIR will “offer access to …
Read More »DAN launches domain network and aims to create a 30+ million secondary market
DAN’s Open Domain Distribution Network has launched. The advanced, easy-to-implement & feature-rich domain distribution network is now out of Beta and available for enterprise-level integrators. With this new network, DAN aims to create a pool …
Read More »CentralNic acquires NameAction
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that it has acquired the domain name and brand protection business trading as NameAction in an asset deal for a consideration of c.$1 million in cash from NameAction Inc. …
Read More »Donuts domain trend report: November 2021
This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …
Read More »The Afternic / GoDaddy / DomainTools domain name pricing problem is now fixed
Last month I wrote about a disastrous mixup with GoDaddy and Afternic domain name pricing at Domain Tools. Generally, when you do a whois search at Domain Tools and the domain name is listed for …
Read More »Dynadot announces aftermarket domain sales
Dynadot has started announcing aftermarket domain name sales. The report includes domain name sales from Expired Auctions, Backorder Auctions, User Auctions, Last Chance Auctions, and Marketplace listings. See the top 10 Aftermarket sales from September …
Read More »GoDaddy’s hosting was hacked 2.5 months ago!
GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting was hacked and up to 1.2 million customers were exposed. Email addresses, customer numbers, usernames, passwords and SSL private keys were all exposed. And somehow GoDaddy either found out about this …
Read More »Namecheap launches new domain name market
Namecheap announced the launch of its new domain market. Developed by the technology team at Namecheap, the platform allows professionals to search, find, and purchase domain names via in-house auctions or ‘Buy it now” listings. …
Read More »Public Interest Registry named 4 new members to its Advisory Council
Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced the selection of four new members to its Advisory Council, which is composed of leaders and activists from a broad spectrum of mission-driven organizations around the world. The Advisory Council …
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Mike Mann says GoDaddy domain appraisals are a total scam and a racket
Mike Mann made a few posts on social media about the GoDaddy automated domain name appraisal tool, calling it a total scam and a racket. I can’t say I blame him. I have written numerous posts about this ridiculously badly made automated tool. Here is the latest post: GoDaddy appraisals …
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GoDaddy appraisals display comparable domain sales from 2004 (!!!)
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Domain name portfolio audit (in 8 steps)
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Dicker failed again to pay money owed as promised
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Greek banks think GoDaddy is a betting company!
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GoDaddy acquires Dan.com
Dan.com and Reza Sardeha announced today that “Dan & GoDaddy join forces”. If you ask me it feels like a sad day in domaining today. Hope I am wrong but previous GoDaddy acquisitions, like Uniregistry, didn’t go the way everyone was hoping. It feels like less competition, less innovation and …
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DAN adds domain categories and a hybrid PPC for sale page template
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Escrow.com partners with MicroAcquire
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Liquid market report Q1 2022: $16M in Escrow.com sales
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Dan improves domain portfolio management (and makes many other updates)