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Tucows Downloads, the software download site that has been around since 1996, 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 in the late 90s. R.I.P. Tucows Downloads! A statement from Tucows CEO Elliot Noss … The post R.I....
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 understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few important … The post Mike Mann se...
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, according to analysis by SIDN, the company behind .nl. Use of … The post Nearly a million new .nl doma...
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 audit follows the 2019 audit program that included all active registry operators, with the objectiv...
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, our team investigated the content in question and confirmed it violated our terms of service because i...
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 sweet domain. Chad Hurley (@Chad_Hurley) January 14, 2021 … The post "Want to change the world...
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 lot according to Elon. https://t.co/TKkruvgBth pic.twitter.com/ocy2gFRYvN Elon Musk … The post...
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 breakeven in FY2019. Out of the total consideration, EUR 3m ($3.7m) was paid upfront with the remaining ...
Giuseppe Graziano fromGGRGpartnering withEscrow.comandEstibots parent companyInteliumandShortNames.com published the 17th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call liquid. The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the ...
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 companies are providing meaningful Tech Solutions for Global Challenges. Even though Dan.com is based i...
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 7 lessons in domaining so far: Lesson 1: If you give a price, YOU LOSE!! Lesson 2: If you give a counter-offer just cuz they made an offer, YOU LOSE!! Lesson … The post Rick Schwartz's 7 lessons ...
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 moved to the SUSPENDED status. These domain names belong to UK registrants and this … The post 81...
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 $149.90 per year. Through the end of January, we'll have an early bird special … The post DNWE is ...
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 Epiks Commitment to Protecting our Customers: On November 6, 2020, GoDaddy sent an anonymous letter stating they were terminating the ...
The .blog registry, Knock Knock WHOIS There, shared some stats about the quality of the New gTLD extension. Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLCis a subsidiary of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Jetpack. It was created in 2015 to manage the launch and development of the .blog gTLD. Here are the shared stats: High … The post Stats ...
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 … The post GoDaddy fail appeared first on OnlineDomain.com. Related Articles: A few confusing...
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 reliably with no significant changes for either registrars or registry services clients." "We are very e...
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 Arbitration Forum). I have no idea what he expected to accomplish … The post Sahil Gupta tries ...
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 names being listed as we get closer to the auction. You … The post The NamesCon 2021 domain name auct...
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 demonstrate their compliance with the .eu regulatory framework by updating their … The post Last Brex...
Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in November for a total of $27,388. 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 understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few important … The post Mike Mann sel...
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 met Dietmar. He was so kind and engaging with everyone. He will … The post R.I.P. Dietmar Ste...
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 MediaOptions domain brokerage services in order to drive significant increases in conversions and sales for ...
Responsible for running and keeping the .UK internet infrastructure secure, Nominet has publishedits update on.UK domains suspended for criminal activityover the 12 months to October 2020. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is being used for criminal activity. It also pu...
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! There is no one stopping Sahil Gupta, wanna be thief of the domain name … The post Sahil Gupta files ...
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 we finally own http://MetaLab.com. I remember the guy who … The post Founder of MetaLab regrets ...
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 WIPOs anti-cybersquatting service. It was created in 1999 by WIPO, and is used by brand owners around … The ...
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 gained market share based on popular website ranks from Alexa. This report covers the … The post Q...
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 second quarter of 2020. Domain name registrations have grown by 10.8 million, or 3.0 percent, year over ...
Nominet todayintroduceslaw enforcement landing pages for domains suspended due to criminal activityto provide information for those who may have been affected by activity related to the domain name. In collaboration with the City of Londons Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU),Nominet will begin redirecting web users to a secure site pro...
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 employees at GoDaddy, the worlds largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned." "The in...
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 tried to purchase .org and failed. Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehad and Erik Brooks are … The post .ORG...
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 successful completion of regulatory requirements. The Afilias registry business features a prominent back-...
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 are registered with Epik will no longer be able to participate in the Afternic Fast Transfer program &...
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 soon after. Jonathan Tenenbaum was a Corporate Counsel at Web.com and then the Namejet General …...
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 rebranding to GoDaddy Corporate Domains. The new service is located at gcd.com. GoDaddy acquired Brandsight a...
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 will be effective as of January 5, 2021. This means that after that date Epik will not … The post GoDaddy drop...
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 inclusive of all channels (GoDaddy, Afternic, Uniregistry) and the price listed … The post GoDad...
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 most helpful and enjoyable experiences from the web. In the past several months, weve … The p...
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 backordered). When I got the first email for the first … The post Front-running by Steen Hof aka Mar...
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 Mobile Services Enabler Platform: As previously announced, effective August 1, 2020 most of Tucows custom...
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 the email from today: Dear customer, Over the last few months, at Uniregistry, … The post Unir...
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 segments in Q3 2020 compared to Q2 2020 which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. … The post...
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), particularly in the com.au namespace. In the past two quarters there was 31 percent growth … The post .a...
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. The post Escrow.com domain name transactions bounced back in Q3 2020 appeared first on OnlineDomain...
Mike Mann reported 8 of his domain name sales in October for a total of $27,388. Reported prices started at $10,000 and went up to $94,888. All 8 domains were 2 .com. The average reported domain sales price was $41,307. If you want to further understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few … The post Mike Mann sells 8 dom...
The annual .US live Town Hall webcast is being held next week. This is the first town hall since GoDaddy acquired Neustar that is the .us registry so it would be interesting to see if any of the important topics come up. The removal of Nexus requirements and whois privacy are a couple of the … The post .US live Town Hall appeared first on Onl...
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020, and announced the departure of Andrew Low Ah Kee, Chief Operating Officer, who is leaving to take a President role in a different segment of the technology space. "We are excited to announce another quarter of strong results and … The po...
Please vote today if you haven't already voted in the United States 2020 Presidential election. Vote for more sanity in the world. I am not an American so I am posting the video of another non-American. (But he is now a US citizen.) John Oliver takes a look at how the Trump administration has handled … The post Please Vote! appeared first on ...
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (Endurance or the Company) (Nasdaq:EIGI) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group L.P. (Clearlake) in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion including outstanding indebtedness. Under the terms of t...
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