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The Domains
Verisign Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results. Verisign ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with 173.8 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 0.2 percent increase from the end of the...
Discussion
Verisign Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results. Verisign ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with 173.8 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 0.2 percent increase from the end of the...
Discussion
February 9, 2023, 10:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
My 2022 domain sales recap
A high level summary of my domain sales last year. I recently calculated my 2022 domain sales. Here’s how my sales broke down: 32 sales 26 .com, 2 .gg, 1 each of .xyz, .info, .us, .org 25 at Afternic, 3 at Dan, 2 inbound, 1 each at Sedo and Uni...
Discussion
My 2022 domain sales recap
A high level summary of my domain sales last year. I recently calculated my 2022 domain sales. Here’s how my sales broke down: 32 sales 26 .com, 2 .gg, 1 each of .xyz, .info, .us, .org 25 at Afternic, 3 at Dan, 2 inbound, 1 each at Sedo and Uni...
Discussion
February 9, 2023, 5:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy announces layoffs
8% of employees being let go in second round of layoffs since 2020. GoDaddy announced yesterday that it’s letting go of about 8% of its employees. CEO Aman Bhutani announced the layoffs in a notice to employees and impacted employees have alrea...
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GoDaddy announces layoffs
8% of employees being let go in second round of layoffs since 2020. GoDaddy announced yesterday that it’s letting go of about 8% of its employees. CEO Aman Bhutani announced the layoffs in a notice to employees and impacted employees have alrea...
Discussion
February 9, 2023, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
January’s top domain name news
These were popular news stories in the domain business last month. 1. Sex/com is for sale again – It last sold for $13 million, and the current owner wants at least $20 million. But they think they’ve found a business model, so it’s...
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January’s top domain name news
These were popular news stories in the domain business last month. 1. Sex/com is for sale again – It last sold for $13 million, and the current owner wants at least $20 million. But they think they’ve found a business model, so it’s...
Discussion
February 8, 2023, 7:28 pm
The Domains
IONOS shares dip below IPO price in first day of trading
IONOS, Inc was spun off from United Internet and went public in Germany on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The first day of trading had the shares slip below their IPO price. For domain investors the companies under the IONOS umbrella include InternetX...
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IONOS shares dip below IPO price in first day of trading
IONOS, Inc was spun off from United Internet and went public in Germany on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The first day of trading had the shares slip below their IPO price. For domain investors the companies under the IONOS umbrella include InternetX...
Discussion
February 8, 2023, 6:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo and InterNetX are part of a new public company
IONOS went public today. Some domain name companies you’ve probably used are part of a new public company today. United Internet spun off IONOS in an initial public offering in Germany today. The IONOS entity includes Sedo, InterNetX, IONOS, St...
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Sedo and InterNetX are part of a new public company
IONOS went public today. Some domain name companies you’ve probably used are part of a new public company today. United Internet spun off IONOS in an initial public offering in Germany today. The IONOS entity includes Sedo, InterNetX, IONOS, St...
Discussion
February 8, 2023, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
13 recent end user domain name sales
A web3 company, a 3D imaging business and a lead generation company bought domain names. Sedo sold a couple of nice five figure domains this past week including payments.co for $45,000 and direct-flights.com for $35,000. The latter is in use but appe...
Discussion
13 recent end user domain name sales
A web3 company, a 3D imaging business and a lead generation company bought domain names. Sedo sold a couple of nice five figure domains this past week including payments.co for $45,000 and direct-flights.com for $35,000. The latter is in use but appe...
Discussion
February 8, 2023, 2:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Using Scrabble scores for domain name values
Scrabble points can be a helpful barometer for the value of letters in short domain names. I was talking about short domain names with fellow investor Nat Cohen recently when he mentioned Scrabble scores. He noted that one of the domain names we disc...
Discussion
Using Scrabble scores for domain name values
Scrabble points can be a helpful barometer for the value of letters in short domain names. I was talking about short domain names with fellow investor Nat Cohen recently when he mentioned Scrabble scores. He noted that one of the domain names we disc...
Discussion
February 7, 2023, 5:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
auDA reports over 700,000 second level domains registered
Another 150,000+ second level domains registered in Q4 as priority period ends. auDA, the organization that manages Australia’s country code top level domain .au, reports there were more than 716,000 second level domain registrations last year....
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auDA reports over 700,000 second level domains registered
Another 150,000+ second level domains registered in Q4 as priority period ends. auDA, the organization that manages Australia’s country code top level domain .au, reports there were more than 716,000 second level domain registrations last year....
Discussion
February 7, 2023, 3:37 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Payments.co
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and Payments.co led the way at 45,000 Euro, ($48,060). Pornos.de was second at 35,000 Euro, ($37,380) and Direct-Flights.com was third at $35,000. 43 .com sales 22 cctld sales 11 other tld sales .Com Sales...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Payments.co
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and Payments.co led the way at 45,000 Euro, ($48,060). Pornos.de was second at 35,000 Euro, ($37,380) and Direct-Flights.com was third at $35,000. 43 .com sales 22 cctld sales 11 other tld sales .Com Sales...
Discussion
February 7, 2023, 2:58 pm
