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Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy beats its forecast with Q2 earnings
Company reports stronger-than-expected growth. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) released Q2 earnings after the market closed today. Total revenue was $1.1 billion, up 7% year over year on a constant currency basis. The Core Platform segment, which includes domai...
Discussion
GoDaddy beats its forecast with Q2 earnings
Company reports stronger-than-expected growth. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) released Q2 earnings after the market closed today. Total revenue was $1.1 billion, up 7% year over year on a constant currency basis. The Core Platform segment, which includes domai...
Discussion
August 1, 2024, 8:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com prices go up at the end of the month
Wholesale prices will increase by 7%. .Com prices are about to increase, so now is an excellent time to renew domain names to beat the higher costs. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the company that operates the .com registry, will increase wholesale prices ...
Discussion
.Com prices go up at the end of the month
Wholesale prices will increase by 7%. .Com prices are about to increase, so now is an excellent time to renew domain names to beat the higher costs. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the company that operates the .com registry, will increase wholesale prices ...
Discussion
August 1, 2024, 1:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Saw.com launches new domain sales platform
Domain name investors have a new option for selling their domains. Domain name brokerage service Saw.com launched a new domain name sales platform today. The platform allows domain name owners to list domains for sale, point them to Saw.com landers (...
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Saw.com launches new domain sales platform
Domain name investors have a new option for selling their domains. Domain name brokerage service Saw.com launched a new domain name sales platform today. The platform allows domain name owners to list domains for sale, point them to Saw.com landers (...
Discussion
August 1, 2024, 12:01 pm
Sully's Blog
Efty Pay has made my day
Efty.com has consistently provided domain investors with innovative tools to streamline their operations and maximize their investments. In 2017, I had the pleasure of interviewing Doron Vermaat, co-founder of Efty, where we delved into the platform&...
Discussion
Efty Pay has made my day
Efty.com has consistently provided domain investors with innovative tools to streamline their operations and maximize their investments. In 2017, I had the pleasure of interviewing Doron Vermaat, co-founder of Efty, where we delved into the platform&...
Discussion
August 1, 2024, 11:05 am
Domain Name Wire
Squarespace explains what happened with crypto site hijackings
Company said weakness in OAuth caused domain hijackings. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) has posted a postmortem on a security incident that impacted mostly crypto/web3 company sites earlier this month. Several web3 companies reported that their domain name...
Discussion
Squarespace explains what happened with crypto site hijackings
Company said weakness in OAuth caused domain hijackings. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) has posted a postmortem on a security incident that impacted mostly crypto/web3 company sites earlier this month. Several web3 companies reported that their domain name...
Discussion
July 31, 2024, 7:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
AI and bet remain hot keywords in the aftermarket
These were the top selling keywords at Afternic in May. Afternic has revealed the top keywords in domain names sold on its platform in May. As the largest domain name marketplace and distribution network, this list is a fairly good representation of ...
Discussion
AI and bet remain hot keywords in the aftermarket
These were the top selling keywords at Afternic in May. Afternic has revealed the top keywords in domain names sold on its platform in May. As the largest domain name marketplace and distribution network, this list is a fairly good representation of ...
Discussion
July 31, 2024, 3:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Group outlines possible path to “.Com-petition”
American Ecomomic Liberties Project says there are ways to pressure Verisign to lower .com prices. Last month, American Economic Liberties Project sent a letter to the U.S. government asking it to halt the renewal of the Cooperative Agreement with Ve...
Discussion
Group outlines possible path to “.Com-petition”
American Ecomomic Liberties Project says there are ways to pressure Verisign to lower .com prices. Last month, American Economic Liberties Project sent a letter to the U.S. government asking it to halt the renewal of the Cooperative Agreement with Ve...
Discussion
July 31, 2024, 12:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Friend.com didn’t spend 75% of its capital on its domain name
Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her announce...
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Friend.com didn’t spend 75% of its capital on its domain name
Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her announce...
Discussion
July 30, 2024, 11:50 pm
The Domains
Friend.com sells for $1.88M
404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, ...
Discussion
Friend.com sells for $1.88M
404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, ...
Discussion
July 30, 2024, 9:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Your blockchain namespace will fail if it’s dependent on a bull market
Alt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That’s a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain “domain” names. Tezos Do...
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Your blockchain namespace will fail if it’s dependent on a bull market
Alt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That’s a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain “domain” names. Tezos Do...
Discussion
July 30, 2024, 5:12 pm
