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Domain Name Wire
Monthly rebrands to Studio.com and raises $50 million
It had a good (but limiting) domain before. Significant funds have poured into the education industry in the past few years. Startups such as Subject have received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collective funding to help move education int...
Discussion
Monthly rebrands to Studio.com and raises $50 million
It had a good (but limiting) domain before. Significant funds have poured into the education industry in the past few years. Startups such as Subject have received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collective funding to help move education int...
Discussion
April 21, 2022, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reminder: there’s no Whois privacy for .us domain names
Don’t expect to remain private if you register a .us domain name. Last July, Chaya Raichik registered the domain name LibsofTikTok.com to go along with her Libs of TikTok Twitter account. In October, she apparently decided to protect her brand ...
Discussion
Reminder: there’s no Whois privacy for .us domain names
Don’t expect to remain private if you register a .us domain name. Last July, Chaya Raichik registered the domain name LibsofTikTok.com to go along with her Libs of TikTok Twitter account. In October, she apparently decided to protect her brand ...
Discussion
April 20, 2022, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Your Google Analytics account is going to brick in 14 months
Now is the time to upgrade your Google Analytics account. Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics tool available. It’s free and robust, and millions of website owners use it on their websites. Most of those site owners set Analytics ...
Discussion
Your Google Analytics account is going to brick in 14 months
Now is the time to upgrade your Google Analytics account. Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics tool available. It’s free and robust, and millions of website owners use it on their websites. Most of those site owners set Analytics ...
Discussion
April 20, 2022, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain sales up to €150,000
A drone marker, a geoscience research institute and a water plan builder bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week is a Germand ccTLD that sold for six figures. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed a...
Discussion
End user domain sales up to €150,000
A drone marker, a geoscience research institute and a water plan builder bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week is a Germand ccTLD that sold for six figures. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed a...
Discussion
April 19, 2022, 4:43 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by Termin.de
Sedo released their weekly sales and Termin.de led the way at 150,000 Euro, ($161,859). Zexa.com was second at $25,000. PlayMatrix.com was third at $24,995. 30 .com sales 18 cctld sales 11 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:...
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Sedo weekly sales led by Termin.de
Sedo released their weekly sales and Termin.de led the way at 150,000 Euro, ($161,859). Zexa.com was second at $25,000. PlayMatrix.com was third at $24,995. 30 .com sales 18 cctld sales 11 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:...
Discussion
April 19, 2022, 3:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Three reports show trends in domain market
These three monthly reports might give you ideas on what’s hot in the domain market. Each month, some domain marketplaces and registries publish data to summarize activity during the previous month. Let’s look at three of these reports to...
Discussion
Three reports show trends in domain market
These three monthly reports might give you ideas on what’s hot in the domain market. Each month, some domain marketplaces and registries publish data to summarize activity during the previous month. Let’s look at three of these reports to...
Discussion
April 18, 2022, 8:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Unpredictable domain sales – DNW Podcast #384
One of the biggest challenges for investors without tens of thousands of domains is sales consistency. Unless you’re one of the biggest domain investors, you likely get frustrated by the unpredictability of domain sales. When it rains it pours,...
Discussion
Unpredictable domain sales – DNW Podcast #384
One of the biggest challenges for investors without tens of thousands of domains is sales consistency. Unless you’re one of the biggest domain investors, you likely get frustrated by the unpredictability of domain sales. When it rains it pours,...
Discussion
April 18, 2022, 3:30 pm
The Domains
Verisign DNIB for Q4 2021
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2021. The quarter closed with 341.7 million domain registrations Executive Summary The fourth quarter of 2021 closed with 341.7 million domain name registrations across all TLDs...
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Verisign DNIB for Q4 2021
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2021. The quarter closed with 341.7 million domain registrations Executive Summary The fourth quarter of 2021 closed with 341.7 million domain name registrations across all TLDs...
Discussion
April 15, 2022, 8:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign removes .tk and other Freenom domains from industry brief
Company excludes five free top ccTLDs from its calculations. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released its Q4 2021 Domain Industry Brief today, and at first glance, it looks like domain registrations have dropped a lot. But that’s because Verisign has r...
Discussion
Verisign removes .tk and other Freenom domains from industry brief
Company excludes five free top ccTLDs from its calculations. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released its Q4 2021 Domain Industry Brief today, and at first glance, it looks like domain registrations have dropped a lot. But that’s because Verisign has r...
Discussion
April 15, 2022, 4:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Newfold’s $560k of sales from March
Here’s what sold at Newfold last month. Newfold’s domain aftermarkets (NameJet and SnapNames) combined to sell 126 domains for $2,000 or more in March, totaling about $560,000. The top sale was xart .com for $56,011. This domain was previ...
Discussion
Newfold’s $560k of sales from March
Here’s what sold at Newfold last month. Newfold’s domain aftermarkets (NameJet and SnapNames) combined to sell 126 domains for $2,000 or more in March, totaling about $560,000. The top sale was xart .com for $56,011. This domain was previ...
Discussion
April 15, 2022, 1:37 pm
