- 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…
- 6 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…
- 7 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…
- 7 days ago, 20 Jan 21, 11:11am -
- ICANN launches audit of 183 registrars
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the launch of an audit program aimed at reviewing how registrars are fulfilling their contractual obligations related to addressing reports of potentially abusive domains. This…
- 8 days ago, 19 Jan 21, 4:57pm -
- GoDaddy statement regarding AR15.com
GoDaddy issued a statement regarding the removal of the website AR15.com from GoDaddy registrar and hosting. Why did GoDaddy suspend services to AR15.com? On January 8, we received a complaint regarding certain content on AR15.com. Per our policy, ou…
- 9 days ago, 18 Jan 21, 3:24pm -
- “Want to change the world? Register a sweet domain.”
Today it was Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, that made a tweet about domain names. 2 days ago it was Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, that tweeted about domain names. This is what Chad Hurley wrote on Twitter today: Want to change the world? Register a s…
- 13 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:47pm -
- Elon Musk tweets about domains
Elon Musk tweeted yesterday once again about domain names. The tweet has a link to x.com and an image that shows how much someone hurts when the domain name they bought for a side project (that never launched) is up for renewal. Spoiler: it hurts a l…
- 14 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 3:16pm -
- CentralNic acquires SafeBrands
On 9 January 2021, CentralNic acquired SafeBrands, a France-based award-winning innovator and technology pioneer for a total cash consideration of up to EUR 3.6m ($4.4m), representing 0.9x its FY2019 revenue. SafeBrands operated at approximately brea…
- 15 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 12:02am -
- Liquid domains report: $11M+ in Escrow(.)com domain sales
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 17th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”…
- 15 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 4:29pm -
- DAN 2.0 is coming soon with a new domain registrar
Dan.com will be showing a preview of DAN 2.0 at CES2021. (Dan.com will showcase their “Tech Solutions for Global Challenges” at CES2021. Dan.com have been selected to represent the delegation from The Netherlands at CES.tech to showcase how Dutch…
- 16 days ago, 11 Jan 21, 12:19pm -
- Rick Schwartz’s 10 lessons in domaining
Rick Schwartz has been tweeting non-stop in the past few days providing very important tips and lessons about domain names. Here are Rick Schwartz’s 10 lessons in domaining so far: Lesson 1: If you give a price, YOU LOSE!! Lesson 2: If you give a c…
- 19 days ago, 8 Jan 21, 5:02pm -
- 81,000 .EU domain names were SUSPENDED
On 1 January 2021, following the notices EURid, the .eu registry, published on their website since June 2020 and the emails they sent to affected registrars and registrars, over 81 000 domain names whose registrants had GB/GI as country code were mov…
- 20 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 6:53pm -
- DNWE is switching to a subscription model
DNWE 2.0 is launching on January 10th, 2021. Here are all the announced upcoming changes to the platform: Platform Subscription DNWE will be switching to a subscription model for all users. The 2021 subscription price will be $14.99 per month or $149…
- 21 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 1:01am -
- Epik update on Afternic fast transfer status
See below Epik’s update on Afternic fast transfer status after GoDaddy terminated the Afternic/Epik partnership. Today is the day the agreement was set by GoDaddy to terminate. Regarding Afternic Faster Transfer and Epik’s Commitment to Protectin…
- 22 days ago, 6 Jan 21, 12:57am -
- Stats about the .blog New gTLD extension
The .blog registry, Knock Knock WHOIS There, shared some stats about the quality of the New gTLD extension. Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC is a subsidiary of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Jetpack. It was created in 2015 to manage…
- 22 days ago, 5 Jan 21, 4:48pm -
- GoDaddy fail
I won a domain at GoDaddy auction on the 1st of January 2021. I tried to pay for it. Here is all I tried so I could pay and failed: I tried to pay using the firefox browser on my PC. Clicking to pay for the domain or clicking on my cart left me with…
- 24 days ago, 3 Jan 21, 4:02pm -
- Donuts completes the Afilias acquisition
Donuts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. The announcement came after ICANN approved the change of control of Afilias. “Now under one corporate structure, the two companies will continue to operate securely and re…
- 28 days ago, 30 Dec 20, 3:20pm -
- Sahil Gupta tries to steal Spase .com again and fails miserably!
Sahil Gupta, this world class idiot, tried to steal the domain name Spase .com again and failed miserably! This time it was even worse. He filed the same UDRP complaint for the same domain name spase.com at The Forum (formerly known as the National A…
- 29 days ago, 29 Dec 20, 6:38pm -
- The NamesCon 2021 domain name auction is now live
The NamesCon domain name auction is now live at GoDaddy Auctions. You can use the drop down on the popular searches to navigate to the “NamesCon 2021 Auction” listings. At the time of writing there were 30 domains in the auction. There are more n…
- 29 days ago, 29 Dec 20, 3:02am -
- Last Brexit notice to .eu registrants and registrars
Last week EURid, the .eu registry, notified (for the second time and probably the last) by email all UK registrants and their registrars that as of 1 January 2021 UK registrants will no longer be eligible to hold a .eu domain name unless they demonst…
- 30 days ago, 28 Dec 20, 10:58am -
- Mike Mann sells 2 domains for $31,888 in November
Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in November for a total of $31,888. Reported prices started at $4,888 and went up to $27,000. All 2 domains were .com. The average reported domain sales price was $15,944. If you want to further understan…
- 49 days ago, 9 Dec 20, 3:39pm -
- R.I.P. Dietmar Stefitz
I was very sad to hear on Friday the passing of Dietmar Stefitz. Dietmar Stefitz was among many other things the founder of Domaining Europe. (Later sold to NamesCon/GoDaddy and became NamesCon Europe.) I went to my first Domaining Europe in 2015 and…
- 51 days ago, 7 Dec 20, 5:24pm -
- MediaOptions partners with DAN.COM for domain brokerage
MediaOptions today announced a partnership with DAN.COM, the blockchain-powered Domain Automation Network, to provide brokerage services to customers listing domains on the DAN.COM platform. The partnership combines the DAN.COM platform with MediaOpt…
- 55 days ago, 3 Dec 20, 6:13pm -
- Over 22,000 .UK domains were suspended in the past 12 months
Responsible for running and keeping the .UK internet infrastructure secure, Nominet has published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2020. Nominet suspends domains following notification from th…
- 56 days ago, 2 Dec 20, 11:28pm -
- Sahil Gupta files the same complaint! (Also tweets to NASA about nasa(.)org!)
Someone many years ago said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”. Well, it is official! Sahil Gupta, our favorite reserve domain name hijacker of 2020, had done it again! T…
- 57 days ago, 1 Dec 20, 3:29pm -
- Founder of MetaLab regrets not paying $17,000 for the .com in 2009
Andrew Wilkinson, the founder of MetaLab in 2006, said that he has regretted not paying $17,000 for metalab.com in 2009. 11 years later and he now owns the domain name. This is what he shared in a tweet today: “It took 15 years of negotiation, but…
- 58 days ago, 1 Dec 20, 12:51am -
- WIPO reaches 50,000 UDRP cases since 1999 and has an 11% increase in 2020
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has registered its 50,000th “cybersquatting” case after almost 21 years. WIPO had its first UDRP case in December 1999. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is at the heart of WIPO’s…
- 58 days ago, 30 Nov 20, 6:24pm -
- Q3 2020 continued with high rates of new domains
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q3/2020 has been published and shows that Q3 2020 has seen a continuation of high rates of new domain creations as well as a slight decrease in deletes. Furthermore, for several countries, the national ccTLD also gain…
- 58 days ago, 30 Nov 20, 1:23pm -
- Internet grows to 370.7 million domains at the end of Q3 2020
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.2 percent, compared to the seco…
- 64 days ago, 24 Nov 20, 3:27pm -
- Nominet and London police add new landing pages for suspended domains
Nominet today introduces law enforcement landing pages for domains suspended due to criminal activity to provide information for those who may have been affected by activity related to the domain name. In collaboration with the City of London’s…
- 64 days ago, 24 Nov 20, 3:12pm -
- GoDaddy employees used in website attacks
Krebs on Security wrote about how GoDaddy employees were used in website attacks. “Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting…
- 67 days ago, 22 Nov 20, 1:20am -
- .ORG was “saved”. Now get ready for some huge price increases!
Yes, we know .org was”saved by all the people that stood against the corrupted ICANN, Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Internet Society and (No)Ethos Capital. But was .org really saved? Abry Partners has many close ties to Ethos Capital that tri…
- 68 days ago, 20 Nov 20, 2:58pm -
- Donuts agrees to purchase Afilias
Donuts Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Afilias, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The transaction, which will not include Afilias’ mobile software and registrar businesses, is expected to close in Q4 2020, following succ…
- 69 days ago, 19 Nov 20, 6:44pm -
- Afternic emails Epik domain name owners regarding Fast Transfer
Afternic sent an email today to Epik domain name owners regarding Fast Transfer. These are Afternic customers that are selling their Epik registered domain names using Afternic Fast Transfer. People with domain names in their Afternic account that ar…
- 69 days ago, 19 Nov 20, 4:23pm -
- What is going on at Namejet?
What is going on at Namejet? People that have been with the company for years are departing from the domain name auction platform. Namejet’s parent company is Web.com. Jonathan Tenenbaum left Namejet very recently and was named COO of MediaOptions…
- 70 days ago, 18 Nov 20, 4:41pm -
- GoDaddy rebrands Brandsight as GoDaddy Corporate Domains (GCD)
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today announced the launch of GoDaddy Corporate Domains (GCD), a domain management solution for large companies. The launch builds off of GoDaddy’s acquisition of Brandsight in February 2020. Brandsight is actually rebrand…
- 71 days ago, 17 Nov 20, 5:49pm -
- GoDaddy drops Epik from an Afternic partner
GoDaddy sent a notice of termination letter notifying Epik that Afternic is dropping Epik from a registrar partner. GoDaddy provided a 60 day notice after which Epik will not be part of the Afternic premium promotion. The termination of Epik on the A…
- 72 days ago, 16 Nov 20, 5:05pm -
- GoDaddy’s top 20 domain name sales from July 2020
GoDaddy released today its July 2020 domain name sales report. GoDaddy started reporting domain name sales last month after a long pause after it went public. (NYSE: GDDY) You can see below the top 20 public domain sales for July 2020. The list is in…
- 75 days ago, 13 Nov 20, 11:48pm -
- Google page experience signal gets into search ranking in May 2021
This past May, Google announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking. These signals measure how users perceive the experience of interacting with a web page and contribute to an ongoing work to ensure people get the…
- 75 days ago, 13 Nov 20, 2:14pm -
- Front-running by Steen Hof aka MarkMon
In the past few days I have been receiving more front-running emails for domain names currently in auction. It was a coincidence (or not so much) that I was already watching a couple of these domains and was already in the auction (or had them backor…
- 77 days ago, 11 Nov 20, 5:31pm -
- Tucows Q3 2020 financial results: revenue is down after Ting Mobile sale
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Note on the Financial Impact of Tucows’ Sale of Ting Mobile Customer Relationships and Transition to Mo…
- 78 days ago, 10 Nov 20, 5:30pm -
- Uniregistry claims parking improvements are resulting in higher earnings
Uniregistry claims in an email today that parking improvements it has made over the past few months are resulting in higher earnings. Uniregistry was acquired by GoDaddy in February 2020. I have stopped using Uniregistry for a few years now. Here is…
- 79 days ago, 9 Nov 20, 6:14pm -
- Escrow Q3 2020 report: domain transactions and median prices are up
The latest Escrow.com Domain Investment Index for Q3 2020 is out. The report provides insight into the domain name market for the third quarter of 2020, compared to previous quarters. The latest data from Escrow.com indicates a recovery across most s…
- 79 days ago, 9 Nov 20, 3:47pm -
- .au Q3 2020 report: record high of 3,214,384 domains
The recent digital shift has also seen more new and existing businesses pivot online as they recognise the need for a digital presence. As a result, there was strong growth in registrations in the .au country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), particular…
- 79 days ago, 9 Nov 20, 12:40pm -
- Escrow.com domain name transactions bounced back in Q3 2020
The latest Escrow.com Domain Name Report is out. Q3 saw $77.5 million total domain name transactions using Escrow.com. That was a $22.3 million increase from Q2! Total domain name transaction amount bounced back in Q3 2020 after a slow quarter in Q2.…
- 82 days ago, 6 Nov 20, 4:29pm -
