- Peter Sunde says ICANN is not a democratic institution
Peter Sunde provided an update about his domain name registrar application that was denied by ICANN. It turns out that he is actually banned from doing business with ICANN. ICANN will not say when (if ever) Peter will be allowed to get a domain name…
- 6 days ago, 2 Mar 21, 3:20pm -
- .IS domain fee increases for the first time
ISNIC’s Board of Directors approved the CEO’s proposal to increase the annual domain fee of an .is domain name by 2 Euro. .IS is the ccTLD of Iceland. After the increase, the annual fee for ‘.is’ domains will be 31.90 Euro without taxes, to r…
- 7 days ago, 1 Mar 21, 2:30pm -
- ICANN denied Peter Sunde’s registrar application
Peter Sunde, co-creator of Njalla, says that ICANN denied his application to become a domain name registrar. (You can read more about the Njalla privacy domain registration service here.) Peter Sunde was also the co-founder of Pirate Bay back in 2003…
- 10 days ago, 26 Feb 21, 5:51pm -
- Uniregistry to use Tipalti to process payouts
Uniregistry is changing its payment processor. Starting on the 1st of March 2021 Uniregistry will be using Tipalti to process payouts. Tipalti is an accounting software financial technology business that provides comprehensive accounts payable and gl…
- 10 days ago, 26 Feb 21, 11:49am -
- GoDaddy launches new WooCommerce extensions for managed wordPress ecommerce hosting
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today announced a plugin bundle expansion for its Managed WordPress Ecommerce customers, featuring free access to a library of over 75 premium WooCommerce extensions. The new extensions come from GoDaddy’s recent acquisiti…
- 12 days ago, 24 Feb 21, 2:14pm -
- Must-read: “Busting domain name secondary market myths”
An article co-authored by Zak Muscovitch, General Counsel of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) and Nat Cohen busts some of the most common domain name secondary market myths. The Secondary Market, where already registered domain names are bough…
- 13 days ago, 23 Feb 21, 4:31pm -
- Search Console adds new association functionality
Google announced that Search Console has an enhanced Association page within the settings menu. Association is a connection between a Search Console property, and some other entity or property in another Google service: for example, between a Search…
- 13 days ago, 23 Feb 21, 2:04pm -
- CentralNic acquires Wando
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Wando Internet Solutions GmbH (“Wando”) for an initial consideration of EUR 5.4m (c.USD 6.5m) (the “Acquisition”). The transaction is expected…
- 13 days ago, 23 Feb 21, 11:22am -
- GoDaddy announces proposed $800 million offering of senior notes
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) (“GoDaddy”) today announced that its subsidiaries, Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC and GD Finance Co, Inc. (the “Issuers”), intend to offer, subject to market and other considerations, $800 million aggregate principa…
- 14 days ago, 22 Feb 21, 11:52pm -
- Afternic had a security issue
Afternic had a security issue on Thursday, February 12 when a security researcher contacted the company about a potential issue with a Web API. Afternic claims that no password or credit card information was at risk. It is well known to GoDaddy, Afte…
- 14 days ago, 22 Feb 21, 4:30pm -
- Clubhouse: newbies and snake oil salesmen?
What is going on with Clubhouse? Is this good for the domain name community or not? Clubhouse is an invitation-only audio-chat social networking app launched in 2020 by software developers Alpha Exploration Co. It is currently only available for iOS…
- 19 days ago, 17 Feb 21, 6:21pm -
- PIR launches new institute to combat DNS abuse
Public Interest Registry, the .ORG registry, today launched the DNS Abuse Institute as part of its ongoing efforts to protect Internet users from the threat of DNS Abuse such as malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and spam. The Institute will bring…
- 19 days ago, 17 Feb 21, 4:22pm -
- .Cloud turns 5 today and releases Premium Domain Sales Report
.Cloud turns 5 today and just released its first ever Premium Domain Sales Report. The .cloud top-level domain (TLD) was launched on February 16, 2016, when it opened the door for general availability registrations. 2020 Premium Domains Report This i…
- 20 days ago, 16 Feb 21, 5:27pm -
- Nominet says campaign can’t appoint board directors without elections
A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the heat. Nominet now says that t…
- 20 days ago, 16 Feb 21, 3:49pm -
- BODIS now supports SSL on over 6M host names
BODIS now resolves HTTPS requests for over 6M host names. How It Works: When a visitor arrives to an HTTPS page for the first time, Bodis adds that host name to a queue. Within minutes, a background task generates an SSL certificate for that host nam…
- 20 days ago, 16 Feb 21, 1:10pm -
- Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39
Verisign announced today in its fourth quarter and full year 2020 results that it plans to increase the price of .com in 2021. Verisign will increase the annual registry-level wholesale fee for each new and renewal .com domain name registration from…
- 25 days ago, 12 Feb 21, 12:28am -
- VeriSign 2020 report: $1.27 billion revenue in 2020, up 2.7%
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2020. Fourth Quarter Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $320 million for the fourth quarter of 202…
- 25 days ago, 12 Feb 21, 12:05am -
- GoDaddy adds 1.4 million net customers in 2020
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2020. “2020 was a really strong year for our business despite the obvious challenges, as our customers proved once again to be resourceful…
- 25 days ago, 11 Feb 21, 11:59pm -
- Endurance Web Presence combines with Web.com to create Newfold Digital
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (“Endurance”) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $3.0…
- 26 days ago, 11 Feb 21, 12:18am -
- Nominet feels the heat and starts making promises
A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the heat. Nominet has now started…
- 26 days ago, 10 Feb 21, 11:31am -
- Tucows Q4 2020 report: revenue drops to $70.8 million
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “The fourth quarter was a solid finish to a very good year for Tucows,” said Elliot Noss, Presi…
- 27 days ago, 10 Feb 21, 12:38am -
- Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $49,776 in January
Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in January for a total of $49,776. Reported prices started at $9,888 and went up to $39,888. All 2 domains were .com. The average reported domain sales price was $24,888. If you want to further understand…
- 28 days ago, 8 Feb 21, 4:09pm -
- 82.5% of .eu domain names are connected to a web server
In an effort to further understand its customers and maintain the .eu “competitive” edge, EURid has completed the 2nd part of the .eu website categorisation. (You can see the first part here.) In November 2020, EURid crawled 150,000 .eu domain na…
- 31 days ago, 5 Feb 21, 8:57am -
- Google creates icon that provides more info about search results
Google Search is now rolling out a special icon that provides more information about the source of a result, if your connection to it will be secure, and more. This is a beta feature for now, offered in English in the US. Starting on February 1st 202…
- 32 days ago, 4 Feb 21, 6:12pm -
- Tucows CEO Elliot Noss talks about content moderation (video)
Last Friday, NamesCon Online hosted a fireside chat with Tucows CEO, Elliot Noss, titled “How do we make the Internet better from here?” The discussion at the closing session of NamesCon 2021 included some reminiscing about Tucows’ early days a…
- 32 days ago, 4 Feb 21, 4:34pm -
- RADIX reports $2M revenue
RADIX shared its bi-annual premium report for the second half of 2020. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the RADIX nTLD portfolio from 1st July 2020 till 31st December 2020. Some of the key highlights from the repor…
- 33 days ago, 3 Feb 21, 6:15pm -
- Stefanos Tsitsipas wants to destroy whoever bought his domain name! (video)
Stefanos Tsitsipas, world number 6 in tennis and best Greek tennis player ever, wants to destroy whoever bought his domain name! Stefanos Tsitsipas is at Melbourne preparing for the ATP Cup starting today (representing team Greece) and the first glan…
- 35 days ago, 1 Feb 21, 7:28pm -
- Masters of Domains: Escrow.com’s top 10 highest-grossing brokers
Each year, Escrow.com recognizes the top 10 highest-grossing brokers in the domains industry for the deals they’ve closed. Here are the top 10 highest-grossing brokers for 2020 at Escrow.com: 1. Drew Rosenor, CEO, Media Options 2. Keith Richter, co…
- 35 days ago, 1 Feb 21, 4:33pm -
- New campaign to rescue .UK and remove 5 Nominet board directors
Krystal, a web hosting company and registrar, has launched PublicBenefit.UK – a campaign to rescue Nominet, the guardian for 10.8M .UK domain names and one of the world’s top five registries. The campaign accuses Nominet’s board that it is pour…
- 35 days ago, 1 Feb 21, 11:16am -
- Net 4 India will probably be terminated as a registrar
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued a third breach notice against Net 4 India Limited (Net 4 India) for its repeated and ongoing failures to comply with the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). ICANN said it did…
- 37 days ago, 30 Jan 21, 11:19pm -
- DAN 2.0 coming in February
Reza Sardeha, CEO of Dan.com, announced today at NamesCon Online 2.0 that DAN 2.0 is coming in February. DAN wants to integrate all aftermarket platforms into DAN 2.0 and to unify/centralize their inventories. The rebuilt platform will offer lists wh…
- 38 days ago, 29 Jan 21, 4:39pm -
- NamesCon Online 2021: best sessions of day 3
NamesCon Online 2021 conference ends today with day 3. NamesCon Online 2021 conference runs from January 27 to January 29 2021. I went through the agenda and picked the best sessions of day 3. (Not as many as day 1 but more than day 2) You can use yo…
- 38 days ago, 29 Jan 21, 2:44pm -
- NamesCon Online 2021: best sessions of day 2
NamesCon Online 2021 conference continues today with day 2. NamesCon Online 2021 conference runs from January 27 to January 29 2021. I went through the agenda and picked the best sessions of day 2. (Not as many as day 1) You can use your computer and…
- 39 days ago, 28 Jan 21, 4:45pm -
- Complete list of the 100 domains in the live NamesCon 2021 auction
The NamesCon 2021 domain name auction has been live at GoDaddy Auctions for a few weeks now. More domains have been added since I wrote a post in December and now there is a total of 100 domains in the auction. You can use the drop down on the popula…
- 39 days ago, 28 Jan 21, 2:02pm -
- NamesCon Online 2021: best sessions of day 1
NamesCon Online 2021 conference starts today. NamesCon Online 2021 conference runs from January 27 to January 29 2021. I went through the agenda and picked the best sessions of day 1. Some of the sessions coincide so you have to choose what is right…
- 40 days ago, 27 Jan 21, 4:04pm -
- Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs
Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs and getting out of domain names completely after selling Uniregistry and his domain name portfolio to GoDaddy last year. UNR (the name of the registry) has setup a webpage announcing the auction at auction.…
- 40 days ago, 27 Jan 21, 3:05pm -
- Afternic announces new and improved domain for sale landers
Afternic announced that it is launching a new and improved version of its domain name “For Sale” landing page – a simplified experience with a more elegant mobile design. Results from its recent experiment are showing as high as 47% more leads…
- 40 days ago, 27 Jan 21, 2:23pm -
- Mike Mann’s top 10 domain name sales in 2020
Mike Mann reports selected domain name sales on social media that OnlineDomain.com reports monthly. These are Mike Mann’s top 10 domain name sales in 2020. Ready.org $169,888 LightRock.com $94,888 Society.org $75,000 ListeningRoom.com $75,000 Dance…
- 41 days ago, 26 Jan 21, 6:14pm -
- .NL introduces landing pages for disabled domain names
From today, SIDN, the .NL registry, is linking an informative landing page to domain names whose name servers have been delinked. In its role as operator of the .nl domain, SIDN can delink the servers of .nl domain names reported to the Police Nation…
- 41 days ago, 26 Jan 21, 4:18pm -
- Uniregistry announces payment improvements
Uniregistry, a GoDaddy company, is introducing a new payment process for sold domain names in the coming months. The new process will manage all future domain name payments and services to help streamline payment experience. What key improvements are…
- 42 days ago, 25 Jan 21, 6:58pm -
- MMX settles with ICM Registry and gets a new CEO
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the top-level domain registry company, announces that it has entered into a settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with the vendors of ICM Registry, LLC (“ICM”), including Mr Stuart Lawley,…
- 42 days ago, 25 Jan 21, 5:26pm -
- Ethos Capital acquires Donuts Inc.
Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehadé, Co-CEOs of Ethos Capital, made the announcement today that Ethos Capital is going to acquire controlling interest of Donuts Inc. Last month Donuts completed the acquisition of Afilias. Here is the announcement today: As…
- 45 days ago, 22 Jan 21, 5:45pm -
- R.I.P. Tucows Downloads
Tucows Downloads, the software download site that has been around since 1993, has been retired after more than 25 years of service. I didn’t know anything about domain names when I was using Tucows to download freeware and shareware software back i…
- 45 days ago, 22 Jan 21, 1:28am -
- Mike Mann sells 9 domains for $146,064 in December
Mike Mann reported 9 of his domain name sales in December for a total of $146,064. Reported prices started at $8,888 and went up to $25,400. All 9 domains were .com. The average reported domain sales price was $16,229. If you want to further understa…
- 47 days ago, 20 Jan 21, 5:22pm -
- Nearly a million new .nl domain names registered in 2020
Last year saw the registration of 995,000 new .nl domain names. That’s 20 per cent up on 2019, when 827,000 new .nls were created. Thanks to the registration surge, the total number of .nl domain names stood at 6.1 million on 1 January 2021, accord…
- 47 days ago, 20 Jan 21, 11:11am -