The Government of Tuvalu selected GoDaddy Registry as the new registry service provider for the .TV country code Top-Level domain replacing Verisign. The announcement follows a competitive render process conducted by the ministry of Finance for the Government of Tuvalu. "The Government, through the Ministry, will work with GoDaddy to grow the .tv d...

All Brexit-related domain names, which were moved to the WITHDRAWN status on 1 July 2021, will be revoked and released on Monday, 3 January 2022. About 48,000 domain names will become available for general registration on first come, first serve basis. The release will happen in batches starting at 10:00:00 CET on 3 January 2022 … The post .E...

Tucows (that is includes OpenSRS, Ascio, Enom) issued a statement on what their response was to the newly discovered Log4j vulnerability: "Last Friday, a critical system vulnerability with Log4j was uncovered that has the potential to result in remote code execution against applications. Since this announcement, Tucows Security, Engineering, and Qu...

Google provided an update on mobile-indexing. Google first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, they switched to indexing the majority of web pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. Their existing plan was to complete mobile-first indexing by March 2021. In the meantime, after analyzing the sites that are not yet ind...

The third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021. Domain name registrations have decreased by 6.1 million, or 1.6%, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total … The po...

Nominet, the .UK registry, has todaypublishedits update on.UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to31October 2021. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is being used for criminal activity. It also puts on hold domains at registration where criminal ...

Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced an expansion of its registry portfolio of top-level domains. PIRs acquired the New gTLD extension .GIVING from Giving Limited. Once the transfer is finalized, PIR will "offer access to this brand new TLD to help mission-driven organizations expand their online presence and achieve their goals." PIR als...

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 of +30 Million secondary market domains, all listed in one (open-for-all) network and distributed by a...

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 portfolio. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of November 2021 rd.group ak.studio ae.group btc.market money.bet coin.sale pro.live...

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 sale at Afternic then Domain Tools displays the price of that domain name and a button/link to purchase the domain … The post The Afternic / GoDaddy ...

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 and October: TOP SALES – EXPIRED AUCTIONS – SEPTEMBER 2021 Domain Name Sold Price ic...

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 2.5 months after the breach or they are just letting people know now or a combination of these. GoDaddy's Managed ...

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 helps PIR in its mission to create more and stronger mission-driven organizations by representing the voice of the...

Nominet announcedthatPaul Fletcherwilljoin as CEO. Paul Fletcher is currently CEO at BCS, the Chartered Institutefor IT, an organisation with 60,000 members.He willjoin Nominet in February 2022, bringingvital experience of working with a wide variety of members and stakeholders to shape and deliver strategy. Pauls career has focused on technology a...

Matt Wegrzyn, founder & CEO of Bodis, wrote a blog post implying that other PPC companies are copying its landing page templates and thus confusing Bodis customers. The companies mentioned were ParkingCrew and Sedo. You can see below what Matt wrote and examples of the "different" landing pages. Bodis Innovates; Addressing Customer Confusion Re...

The .US ccTLD extension had its live town hall forum with the .US Stakeholder Council. The Town Hall had a rundown of the current state of the domain industry and .US specifically plus policy considerations for domain growth and community outreach to establish top civic priorities for future direction. The town hall presented some interested …...

Mike Mann reported 7 of his domain name sales in October 2021 for a total of $125,276. Reported prices started at $10,000 and went up to $34,000. Mike sold 7 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $17,897. If you want to further understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few … The post Mike Mann sells ...

Namecheap announced that price increases are coming in most of their services in November 2021. Here is the announcement: After careful analysis of the market, and the impact its having on our growing hardware and software costs, we have made the decision to increase some of our prices. Here we will explain exactly why this … The post Nameche...

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 portfolio. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of October 2021 gs.group re.broker market.live a.email crosscountry.mortgage auto.sh...

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021. "GoDaddy stepped out on the commerce stage in a big way with the hardware and payments offerings we launched in Q3," said GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani, "New solutions like these, combined with a consistent, cash-generative business, give us confidence i...

Domaining.com has been compromised and has issued a security alert on its website: BREACH SECURITY ALERT Domaining.com has been apparently compromised, login has been closed. We were not storing any CC data but change your password in other services if you were using the same. More info later, sorry. Domaining.com also sent out an email … The...

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2021. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Verisign) reported revenue of $334 million for the third quarter of 2021, up 5.1 percent from the same quarter in 2020. Verisign reported net income of $157 million and diluted earnings per share (diluted EPS) of …...

I have no idea how many times I have written about GoDaddy and their remarkable incompetence. So once again here it is. This is what happened: A buyer told me he saw one of my domain names for sale for $6,000 at Domain Tools/ Afternic. So he offered me $5,000. I told him the price … The post A disastrous mixup with GoDaddy and Afternic domain...

In response to ICANNs request for comments from stakeholders, the ICA filed its Comment, on the Initial Report on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs. This is an important issue that the ICA has been actively involved in for many years and ICA Board Member Jay Chapman served in the ICANN group working on this … The post ICA files co...

See below the most abused domain name registrars at Botnets in Q3 2021. Read here Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused top-level domains, Q3 2021 There were significant increases across most of the domain registrars listed in the Top 20. The United States is home to the largest percentage of domain registrars; however, their share has … The p...

Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in September 2021 for a total of $54,888. Reported prices started at $19,888 and went up to $35,000. Mike sold 2 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $27,444. If you want to further understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few … The post Mike Mann sells...

EURid announced it has again been selected by the European Commission to continue as the .eu TLD`s registry manager through to October 2027. In May of 2021, EURid submitted its application to the EC call to manage the .eu TLD registry. The application highlighted EURid`s achievements over the past 15 years as well as the … The post EURid wins...

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that, following its significant investment programme, the Company's organic growth has further accelerated during the nine months to 30 September 2021, resulting in organic growth of 29% against the same period in the prior year. The company therefore expects to report revenue of at least USD280 million an...

See here the most abused top-level domains at Botnets, Q3 2021. No changes at the top of the chart In Q3, .com and .xyz continued to stay at the top of our ranking. The situation deteriorated for these two TLDs, particularly .com, which experienced a 90% increase. We hope that VeriSign, the owner of this … The post Spamhaus Botnet threats: Mo...

Dan.com and MediaOptions announced a new partnership. The partnership is intended to combine Dan.coms domain marketplace together with MediaOptions enterprise-level domain brokerage services in order to boost sales for participating portfolio owners. "Our partnership provides Dan.com users with greater returns while democratizing access to MediaOpt...

DAN offered a sneak peak into the upcoming domain name registrar services that are expected in 2021. "The first step in our journey to offer registrar services is to create one central place for you to manage, monetize & sell your domains. And that's going to go live in October 2021." "After the above structure … The post DAN's domain nam...

Giuseppe Graziano fromGGRGpartnering withEscrow.comandEstibots parent companyInteliumandShortNames.com published the 20th 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 ...

This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current portfolio. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of September 2021 one.video 24k.gold galaxy.market ada.market create.games block.fan uae.new...

Afnic has been reappointed as the registry of .fr. The precise terms and conditions for implementing Afnics proposals for the management and development of .fr are currently being drafted as part of a new agreement that will take effect on July 1, 2022 for a period of 5 years. Afnic is the Internet registry for … The post Afnic renewed as reg...

You know that list of registrars that Afternic claims to have on their Afternic Premium Network that are using Fast-Transfer (FT)? Well it turns out the list is either completely outdated or it was inaccurate from the start. Either way it is a mess and a disgrace to GoDaddy and Afternic. I was trying to … The post The Afternic premium network...

Today, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), hosted GoDaddy OPEN 2021, an online event for small business owners to learn, connect and grow their businesses. In a special fireside chat, GoDaddy CMO Fara Howard sat down with entrepreneur and four-time Grand Slam champion, Naomi Osaka to discuss starting a business, building a brand and what motivates her ̷...

Mike Mann reported 7 of his domain name sales in August 2021 for a total of $99,114. Reported prices started at $1,888 and went up to $30,000. Mike sold 7 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $14,159. If you want to further understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few … The post Mike Mann sells 7 d...

DAN.com together with NamesCon announced 5 new awards given to five domain community members for their great achievements and community-driven spirit. The winners are: The award for the most data-driven domainer of the year 2021 goes to Nikhil Jain. The award for the most community-driven domainer of the year 2021 goes to Leanne McMahon. The …...

According to what I have read and seen the Epik data leak includes credit card numbers, registered names, whois data, whois privacy data, usernames, emails, passwords, failed password attempts, auth codes, etc. Pretty much EVERYTHING a registrar stores on its servers. More on this coming soon… There is also a video with Rob Monster answering ...

Yes, it appears that the registrar Epik was hacked by a group called Anonymous. Yes, there was a website at epikfail.win with the info you can see below. (Website is now down.) Yes, there are a couple of torrents with all the hacked data and thousands of people downloading them. According to the hackers, the … The post Epik was hacked appeare...

DAN announced today many new features including the ability to set a unique and customized for sale page per domain and improvements to the SSL generation system. DAN shares below a brief description of the top items deployed by its team: 1: Set a unique & customized domain for sale page per domain. Simply head … The post DAN announces ne...

I got an inquiry yesterday for one of my .com domain names. I asked the buyer to submit at a 5-figure offer and then I received a $3,500 USD offer. When I politely declined the offer the buyer said: "If you change your mind and want to do something closer to the recent sales of … The post GoDaddy appraisals display comparable domain sales fro...

This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current portfolio. Top 20 Premium New gTLD Domains Registered In The Month of August 2021 at.ltd smith.live 17.ltd uwe.live hz.group 360.consulting … Th...

.FR, the French top level domain operated by Afnic celebrates its 35th anniversary and continues its growth, which has allowed it to increase by 7% in 2020. The result of 35 years of technical excellence, .fr shines today for the trust it inspires, in addition to being a pioneer in digital solidarity and in the … The post .FR celebrates its 3...

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to the first quarter of 2021. Domain name registrations have decreased by 2.8 million, or 0.7%, year over year....