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DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa – Sherpa Shorts – March 20, 2025: Everything Everywhere All At Once
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment co-hosted by JT and Drew, who are joined by special guest Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, the parent company of Escrow.com, to go over Escrow.com...
Discussion
DomainSherpa – Sherpa Shorts – March 20, 2025: Everything Everywhere All At Once
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment co-hosted by JT and Drew, who are joined by special guest Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, the parent company of Escrow.com, to go over Escrow.com...
Discussion
March 20, 2025, 10:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
The top 10 .com registrars aren’t growing, but their challengers are
Six of the 11th-20th largest .com registrars grew their DUMs year over year. Earlier this week, I provided the latest official numbers for the top ten domain name registrars, ranked by total .com domains under management. I noted that just one of the...
Discussion
The top 10 .com registrars aren’t growing, but their challengers are
Six of the 11th-20th largest .com registrars grew their DUMs year over year. Earlier this week, I provided the latest official numbers for the top ten domain name registrars, ranked by total .com domains under management. I noted that just one of the...
Discussion
March 20, 2025, 5:50 pm
The Domains
ProKiller.com is the bookmark site for domain investors
James Kim @blaknames on X created a pretty cool all inclusive website that domain investors can use to quickly navigate to industry sites and tools. Having everything all at one place is pretty convenient, and James will continue to add to the site a...
Discussion
ProKiller.com is the bookmark site for domain investors
James Kim @blaknames on X created a pretty cool all inclusive website that domain investors can use to quickly navigate to industry sites and tools. Having everything all at one place is pretty convenient, and James will continue to add to the site a...
Discussion
March 19, 2025, 10:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon is launching three new top level domains next month
The long wait is over for .free, .hot, and .spot. In the better-late-than-never category, Amazon is preparing to launch three top level domains from the 2012 round of domain expansion. On April 2, the company will open sunrise for .free, .hot, and .s...
Discussion
Amazon is launching three new top level domains next month
The long wait is over for .free, .hot, and .spot. In the better-late-than-never category, Amazon is preparing to launch three top level domains from the 2012 round of domain expansion. On April 2, the company will open sunrise for .free, .hot, and .s...
Discussion
March 19, 2025, 7:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Afternic launches basic self-brokering
First version of self-brokering system is limited. Afternic launched a new feature today that allows domain name investors to self-broker domain names rather than have Afternic’s brokers manage negotiations. The self-brokering feature is very m...
Discussion
Afternic launches basic self-brokering
First version of self-brokering system is limited. Afternic launched a new feature today that allows domain name investors to self-broker domain names rather than have Afternic’s brokers manage negotiations. The self-brokering feature is very m...
Discussion
March 19, 2025, 5:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Only one of the top 10 .com domain registrars is growing
Just one of the registrar families has grown its base of .com domains over the 12-month period ending in November. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers November 2024. Here are s...
Discussion
Only one of the top 10 .com domain registrars is growing
Just one of the registrar families has grown its base of .com domains over the 12-month period ending in November. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers November 2024. Here are s...
Discussion
March 19, 2025, 12:59 pm
The Domains
InterNetX and Sedo release their Global Domain Report 2025
InternetX and Sedo released their all inclusive Global Domain Report 2025. Simone Catania and the crew always do a great job gathering all the pertinent data and getting industry participants to leave some commentary. (I do have a couple quotes and g...
Discussion
InterNetX and Sedo release their Global Domain Report 2025
InternetX and Sedo released their all inclusive Global Domain Report 2025. Simone Catania and the crew always do a great job gathering all the pertinent data and getting industry participants to leave some commentary. (I do have a couple quotes and g...
Discussion
March 18, 2025, 10:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
13 domain names end user bought this week
A furniture company, a sushi restaurant chain, and a guy named Pascal bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain sales this week was bookwalker.com for $27,000. The buyer might be a Japanese e-book store with this name, but it’s unclea...
Discussion
13 domain names end user bought this week
A furniture company, a sushi restaurant chain, and a guy named Pascal bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain sales this week was bookwalker.com for $27,000. The buyer might be a Japanese e-book store with this name, but it’s unclea...
Discussion
March 18, 2025, 6:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Peeking inside Sedo and InterNetX’s 2025 Global Domain Report
Fascinating stats in this year’s Global Domain Report. Domain name marketplace Sedo and registrar InternetX have published the 2025 Global Domain Report. The report looks at both the primary and secondary markets for domain names. It uses data ...
Discussion
Peeking inside Sedo and InterNetX’s 2025 Global Domain Report
Fascinating stats in this year’s Global Domain Report. Domain name marketplace Sedo and registrar InternetX have published the 2025 Global Domain Report. The report looks at both the primary and secondary markets for domain names. It uses data ...
Discussion
March 18, 2025, 5:19 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly domain sales led by BookWalker.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and BookWalker.com led the way at $27,000. SkinClinic.com was second at $20,000. Wellstays.com was third at $16,500. 37 .com sales 30 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Domain name Price Currency ...
Discussion
Sedo weekly domain sales led by BookWalker.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and BookWalker.com led the way at $27,000. SkinClinic.com was second at $20,000. Wellstays.com was third at $16,500. 37 .com sales 30 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Domain name Price Currency ...
Discussion
March 18, 2025, 3:29 pm
