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Domain Name Wire
Verisign blames higher retail pricing, sets plan for growth
Company will increase marketing plans in second half of year to grow domain name base. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the year. It once again blamed China for much of the drop, noting that its base of ...
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Verisign blames higher retail pricing, sets plan for growth
Company will increase marketing plans in second half of year to grow domain name base. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the year. It once again blamed China for much of the drop, noting that its base of ...
Discussion
April 26, 2024, 3:25 pm
The Domains
Verisign Q1 2024 earnings beat street estimates
Verisign Inc. (VRSN) announced earnings for its Q1 2024 and there was an increase from the same period last year and beat the Street estimates. The company’s bottom line came in at $194.1 million, or $1.92 per share. This compares with $178.7 m...
Discussion
Verisign Q1 2024 earnings beat street estimates
Verisign Inc. (VRSN) announced earnings for its Q1 2024 and there was an increase from the same period last year and beat the Street estimates. The company’s bottom line came in at $194.1 million, or $1.92 per share. This compares with $178.7 m...
Discussion
April 25, 2024, 10:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
SmartContracts.com ordered transferred in UDRP
Complainant accidentally let the domain expire. A UDRP panelist has ordered the domain name SmartContracts.com transferred in an unusual case. SmartContracts.com is a valuable domain name that would be coveted by many blockchain companies and enthusi...
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SmartContracts.com ordered transferred in UDRP
Complainant accidentally let the domain expire. A UDRP panelist has ordered the domain name SmartContracts.com transferred in an unusual case. SmartContracts.com is a valuable domain name that would be coveted by many blockchain companies and enthusi...
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April 25, 2024, 10:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign lowers guidance for 2024 after slow Q1
.Com domain base drops, hurting Verisign’s prospects. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released earnings this afternoon and has downgraded its guidance for 2024. The company ended Q1 2024 with 172.5 million domains across .com and .net, down 0.27 millio...
Discussion
Verisign lowers guidance for 2024 after slow Q1
.Com domain base drops, hurting Verisign’s prospects. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released earnings this afternoon and has downgraded its guidance for 2024. The company ended Q1 2024 with 172.5 million domains across .com and .net, down 0.27 millio...
Discussion
April 25, 2024, 9:04 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa – Down The Rabbit Hole – April 25, 2024: Up and Atom
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And our work with domains has us venturing "down the rabbit hole" into different topics all the time. So this is a tech-adjacent, digital asset, pop-culture, tangent-positive monthly po...
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DomainSherpa – Down The Rabbit Hole – April 25, 2024: Up and Atom
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And our work with domains has us venturing "down the rabbit hole" into different topics all the time. So this is a tech-adjacent, digital asset, pop-culture, tangent-positive monthly po...
Discussion
April 25, 2024, 8:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Create domain financing deals with this handy calculator
This calculator makes it easy to offer financing options to prospective buyers. Long term payment plans and domain financing are becoming popular ways to close the gap in domain name negotiations. The creator of Domaining has created a handy calculat...
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Create domain financing deals with this handy calculator
This calculator makes it easy to offer financing options to prospective buyers. Long term payment plans and domain financing are becoming popular ways to close the gap in domain name negotiations. The creator of Domaining has created a handy calculat...
Discussion
April 25, 2024, 7:51 pm
The Domains
RightOfTheDot Set to Host Groundbreaking Digital Asset Auction at NamesCon 2024
Right of The Dot put out a press release with information on the upcoming NamesCon auction scheduled to take place live on June 6, 2024, at 3:00 PM CT AUSTIN, Texas, /PRNewswire/ — RightOfTheDot, LLC (ROTD.com), the premier destination for doma...
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RightOfTheDot Set to Host Groundbreaking Digital Asset Auction at NamesCon 2024
Right of The Dot put out a press release with information on the upcoming NamesCon auction scheduled to take place live on June 6, 2024, at 3:00 PM CT AUSTIN, Texas, /PRNewswire/ — RightOfTheDot, LLC (ROTD.com), the premier destination for doma...
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April 25, 2024, 7:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy implements new bidder verification system
Stronger ID verification replaces the PayPal verification system. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has introduced a new bidder verification system for new accounts to reduce deadbeat and shill bidders. As has been the case since 2015, new account holders can onl...
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GoDaddy implements new bidder verification system
Stronger ID verification replaces the PayPal verification system. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has introduced a new bidder verification system for new accounts to reduce deadbeat and shill bidders. As has been the case since 2015, new account holders can onl...
Discussion
April 25, 2024, 3:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
No joke: Sumo rebrands to bdow.com
I understand rebranding, but this? Well, this one is a bit of a head-scratcher. Remember SumoMe? The company paid $1.5 million to acquire sumo.com back in 2017 because people didn’t understand its name. It forwarded it to sumome.com. The busine...
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No joke: Sumo rebrands to bdow.com
I understand rebranding, but this? Well, this one is a bit of a head-scratcher. Remember SumoMe? The company paid $1.5 million to acquire sumo.com back in 2017 because people didn’t understand its name. It forwarded it to sumome.com. The busine...
Discussion
April 24, 2024, 4:24 pm
The Domains
Are links no longer important to Google?
Roger Montti published an article on SearchEngineJournal.com that discussed whether links were still important to Google when it came to search engine ranking. Apparently Google’s Gary Illyse was at a search conference in Bulgaria and stated, &...
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Are links no longer important to Google?
Roger Montti published an article on SearchEngineJournal.com that discussed whether links were still important to Google when it came to search engine ranking. Apparently Google’s Gary Illyse was at a search conference in Bulgaria and stated, &...
Discussion
April 24, 2024, 3:55 pm
