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Domain Name Wire
Verisign: China weighs on .com, .net prices going up
Soft demand in China hurts Verisign’s quarter. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Q2 earnings after the closing bell yesterday. Revenue grew 5.7% year over year and operating income grew 5.5%. The overall base of .com and .net domain names under ...
Discussion
Verisign: China weighs on .com, .net prices going up
Soft demand in China hurts Verisign’s quarter. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Q2 earnings after the closing bell yesterday. Revenue grew 5.7% year over year and operating income grew 5.5%. The overall base of .com and .net domain names under ...
Discussion
July 28, 2023, 12:24 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa – Down The Rabbit Hole – July 27, 2023: Digital Wellness & Mental Performance with Donna & Marcello Abbate
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And in the reverse, domains has us venturing "down the rabbit hole" into different topics all the time. This is a tech-adjacent, digital asset, pop-culture, tangent-positive monthly pod...
Discussion
DomainSherpa – Down The Rabbit Hole – July 27, 2023: Digital Wellness & Mental Performance with Donna & Marcello Abbate
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And in the reverse, domains has us venturing "down the rabbit hole" into different topics all the time. This is a tech-adjacent, digital asset, pop-culture, tangent-positive monthly pod...
Discussion
July 27, 2023, 10:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moving my personal website from Weebly to Carrd
Carrd is easy to use and inexpensive for simple websites. Five years ago, I tested out website developers, including Weebly. I built a different site on each platform and chose to build a personal site at AndrewAllemann.com on Weebly. The site was fa...
Discussion
Moving my personal website from Weebly to Carrd
Carrd is easy to use and inexpensive for simple websites. Five years ago, I tested out website developers, including Weebly. I built a different site on each platform and chose to build a personal site at AndrewAllemann.com on Weebly. The site was fa...
Discussion
July 27, 2023, 7:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Real estate company tries Plan B reverse domain name hijacking
Company neglected to inform panel about its attempts to buy the domain name. A UDRP panel has found that real estate management company Leumas Residential, LLC tried to reverse domain name hijack leumas.com. Leumas Residential sent many emails to the...
Discussion
Real estate company tries Plan B reverse domain name hijacking
Company neglected to inform panel about its attempts to buy the domain name. A UDRP panel has found that real estate management company Leumas Residential, LLC tried to reverse domain name hijack leumas.com. Leumas Residential sent many emails to the...
Discussion
July 27, 2023, 5:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
AI was top keyword in Afternic sales in May
AI, bet, and health jump up the charts. Afternic has published a list of the top 20 keywords in domains sold on its aftermarket platform in May. AI led the list, and this doesn’t surprise me. Five of the 29 domains I’ve sold this year hav...
Discussion
AI was top keyword in Afternic sales in May
AI, bet, and health jump up the charts. Afternic has published a list of the top 20 keywords in domains sold on its aftermarket platform in May. AI led the list, and this doesn’t surprise me. Five of the 29 domains I’ve sold this year hav...
Discussion
July 27, 2023, 3:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top level domain operator wants out of the business
Here’s a first: a non-brand TLD operator voluntarily terminating its contract. For the first time, an operator of a new top level domain that didn’t apply as a brand owner has voluntarily told ICANN it wants to terminate its contract. Whi...
Discussion
Top level domain operator wants out of the business
Here’s a first: a non-brand TLD operator voluntarily terminating its contract. For the first time, an operator of a new top level domain that didn’t apply as a brand owner has voluntarily told ICANN it wants to terminate its contract. Whi...
Discussion
July 26, 2023, 4:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Escrow.com reports Q2 slowdown
Q2 volume declines toward end of quarter with fewer large transactions. Escrow.com released its Q2 2023 domain investment index today, and parent company Freelancer.com (ASX: FLN) reported earnings yesterday. The company reported a 31% drop in domain...
Discussion
Escrow.com reports Q2 slowdown
Q2 volume declines toward end of quarter with fewer large transactions. Escrow.com released its Q2 2023 domain investment index today, and parent company Freelancer.com (ASX: FLN) reported earnings yesterday. The company reported a 31% drop in domain...
Discussion
July 26, 2023, 3:16 pm
The Domains
Escrow.com releases their Domain Investment Index for Q2 2023
Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index for Q2, 2023. They started out with their executive summary stating the following: Total domain name volume on Escrow.com eased from $129.8M in 1Q23 down to $89M. Overall, 2Q23 has less mega domains i...
Discussion
Escrow.com releases their Domain Investment Index for Q2 2023
Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index for Q2, 2023. They started out with their executive summary stating the following: Total domain name volume on Escrow.com eased from $129.8M in 1Q23 down to $89M. Overall, 2Q23 has less mega domains i...
Discussion
July 26, 2023, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
18 more end user domain sales
A Magic the Gathering card company, a green propulsion company, and a major eyewear company bought domain names. It’s the second week of Sedo’s summer vacation from reporting domain sales. This week, I went back to the reports from the la...
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18 more end user domain sales
A Magic the Gathering card company, a green propulsion company, and a major eyewear company bought domain names. It’s the second week of Sedo’s summer vacation from reporting domain sales. This week, I went back to the reports from the la...
Discussion
July 26, 2023, 1:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Judge issues orders in eth .link dispute: ENS can transfer domain
Judge issues orders on many outstanding motions. The judge overseeing a dispute over eth.link issued a number of orders (pdf) today. Here’s the back story: Virgil Griffith registered eth.link for use as a resolving service for .eth domain names...
Discussion
Judge issues orders in eth .link dispute: ENS can transfer domain
Judge issues orders on many outstanding motions. The judge overseeing a dispute over eth.link issued a number of orders (pdf) today. Here’s the back story: Virgil Griffith registered eth.link for use as a resolving service for .eth domain names...
Discussion
July 25, 2023, 5:02 pm
