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Domain Name Wire
Verisign expects at least $1.125 billion revenue in 2020 even without price increases
Company doesn’t bake price increases into guidance. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) expects to generate $1.250 billion to $1.265 billion in revenue next year, even without price increases in .com, the company disclosed yesterday. That com...
Discussion
Verisign expects at least $1.125 billion revenue in 2020 even without price increases
Company doesn’t bake price increases into guidance. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) expects to generate $1.250 billion to $1.265 billion in revenue next year, even without price increases in .com, the company disclosed yesterday. That com...
Discussion
February 7, 2020, 2:33 pm
The Domains
What was the best buy from NamesCon Live Auction?
Now that it’s been a week since the NamesCon live auction. Which buy did you think was the best buy? When the auction was going on and I was live tweeting it seemed many thought BeautySpa.com was a great buy. Someone today emailed me they misse...
Discussion
What was the best buy from NamesCon Live Auction?
Now that it’s been a week since the NamesCon live auction. Which buy did you think was the best buy? When the auction was going on and I was live tweeting it seemed many thought BeautySpa.com was a great buy. Someone today emailed me they misse...
Discussion
February 7, 2020, 1:33 am
Domain Name Wire
NameJet and SnapNames inventory to become one
Customers only need to place backorders on one site. NameJet and SnapNames domain name inventory is being integrated so that both platforms have the same inventory. Web.com now owns both domain marketplaces, so it makes sense for the inventory to sho...
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NameJet and SnapNames inventory to become one
Customers only need to place backorders on one site. NameJet and SnapNames domain name inventory is being integrated so that both platforms have the same inventory. Web.com now owns both domain marketplaces, so it makes sense for the inventory to sho...
Discussion
February 6, 2020, 10:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales
Several tech companies, a simulation engineering firm and an online cosmetics retailer bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain name sale of the past week was Chauffage.fr at €62,500. Chauffage means “heater” in French so ...
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This week’s end user domain name sales
Several tech companies, a simulation engineering firm and an online cosmetics retailer bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain name sale of the past week was Chauffage.fr at €62,500. Chauffage means “heater” in French so ...
Discussion
February 6, 2020, 5:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest .com rankings
Here’s how registrars performed in the latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2019. There was a bit of shakeup...
Discussion
Latest .com rankings
Here’s how registrars performed in the latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2019. There was a bit of shakeup...
Discussion
February 6, 2020, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
This domain name forms a picture
There’s more to this name than first meets the eye. In 2014, Wei DAI (戴威) and his student friends at Peking University were thinking of a way to solve the so-called “last mile” problem of commuters — the final leg of a per...
Discussion
This domain name forms a picture
There’s more to this name than first meets the eye. In 2014, Wei DAI (戴威) and his student friends at Peking University were thinking of a way to solve the so-called “last mile” problem of commuters — the final leg of a per...
Discussion
February 6, 2020, 2:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Xtream .com hit with UDRP after domain name auction
UDRP filed shortly after auction concluded. The domain name Xtream.com sold for $26,000 in last week’s live domain name auction at NamesCon, and the buyer might have a headache on their hands. Someone filed a UDRP against the domain name yester...
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Xtream .com hit with UDRP after domain name auction
UDRP filed shortly after auction concluded. The domain name Xtream.com sold for $26,000 in last week’s live domain name auction at NamesCon, and the buyer might have a headache on their hands. Someone filed a UDRP against the domain name yester...
Discussion
February 5, 2020, 6:10 pm
The Domains
.ME Premium Domains Available for Registration starting March 4th
In a post yesterday .Me said they will be releasing approximately 2,800 premium domains on March 4. This might be a little too late as .me is just another extension in a sea of hundreds. Holding on to premiums this long probably not going to yield th...
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.ME Premium Domains Available for Registration starting March 4th
In a post yesterday .Me said they will be releasing approximately 2,800 premium domains on March 4. This might be a little too late as .me is just another extension in a sea of hundreds. Holding on to premiums this long probably not going to yield th...
Discussion
February 5, 2020, 5:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic reports $109 million revenue in 2019
CentralNic joins the nine-figure revenue club. CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC), a rollup of domain name companies, announced today that its unaudited 2019 revenue was $109 million. That’s up 95% year-over-year, buoyed by a full year of KeyDrive r...
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CentralNic reports $109 million revenue in 2019
CentralNic joins the nine-figure revenue club. CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC), a rollup of domain name companies, announced today that its unaudited 2019 revenue was $109 million. That’s up 95% year-over-year, buoyed by a full year of KeyDrive r...
Discussion
February 5, 2020, 4:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
L’Oreal sells four top level domains to XYZ
Cosmetics company gets out of generic domain business. Top level domain registry XYZ has acquired four domain names from L’Oreal, according to ICANN records. The company acquired .beauty, .makeup, .hair and .skin on January 10, 2020. L’Or...
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L’Oreal sells four top level domains to XYZ
Cosmetics company gets out of generic domain business. Top level domain registry XYZ has acquired four domain names from L’Oreal, according to ICANN records. The company acquired .beauty, .makeup, .hair and .skin on January 10, 2020. L’Or...
Discussion
February 5, 2020, 2:49 pm
