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Domain Name Wire
Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2
Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name regis...
Discussion
Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2
Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name regis...
Discussion
July 26, 2024, 1:03 pm
The Domains
Verisign DNIB Q2 2024 – 362.4M domain regs across all tlds
Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain ...
Discussion
Verisign DNIB Q2 2024 – 362.4M domain regs across all tlds
Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain ...
Discussion
July 25, 2024, 11:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Republican lawmakers open inquiry into Verisign’s .com contract
Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technolo...
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Republican lawmakers open inquiry into Verisign’s .com contract
Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technolo...
Discussion
July 25, 2024, 4:27 pm
The Domains
Andrew Rosener GBM Auctions close today
GBM Domains has a very unique platform, their co-founder and CEO Hugo McDonaugh was on Domain Sherpa back July 18. Andrew Rosener placed some names on auction and they close today. I have provided the links to Andrew’s auctions below: – B...
Discussion
Andrew Rosener GBM Auctions close today
GBM Domains has a very unique platform, their co-founder and CEO Hugo McDonaugh was on Domain Sherpa back July 18. Andrew Rosener placed some names on auction and they close today. I have provided the links to Andrew’s auctions below: – B...
Discussion
July 25, 2024, 10:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Latest .com data: GoDaddy down, Gname up
Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered o...
Discussion
Latest .com data: GoDaddy down, Gname up
Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered o...
Discussion
July 24, 2024, 4:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
New phishing report names and shames TLDs, registrars
Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place b...
Discussion
New phishing report names and shames TLDs, registrars
Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place b...
Discussion
July 23, 2024, 9:40 pm
Sully's Blog
Knowledge and Action in Domain Investing
Imagine your domaining results if you just took action without learning anything about domains. You just start bidding on names at auction, not knowing which are valuable. You hand register hundreds of names without know if there is a market for them...
Discussion
Knowledge and Action in Domain Investing
Imagine your domaining results if you just took action without learning anything about domains. You just start bidding on names at auction, not knowing which are valuable. You hand register hundreds of names without know if there is a market for them...
Discussion
July 23, 2024, 8:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
13 end user domain name sales up to $28,333
A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don’t want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sa...
Discussion
13 end user domain name sales up to $28,333
A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don’t want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sa...
Discussion
July 23, 2024, 5:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Efty Pay launches first iteration of Efty Pay
Paying customers can now import leads to use Efty Pay. Domain name sales platform Efty has launched the first iteration of Efty Pay for sellers. For the initial launch, Efty customers with an active subscription can import leads to use Efty Pay to co...
Discussion
Efty Pay launches first iteration of Efty Pay
Paying customers can now import leads to use Efty Pay. Domain name sales platform Efty has launched the first iteration of Efty Pay for sellers. For the initial launch, Efty customers with an active subscription can import leads to use Efty Pay to co...
Discussion
July 22, 2024, 3:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Advice for selling more domains – DNW Podcast #494
A domain broker gives me tips to sell more domains. Last week, I talked about how my domain sales are down so far this year. Jeffrey Gabriel, Saw.com founder and domain broker, joins me this week to talk about what I can do to change this trajectory....
Discussion
Advice for selling more domains – DNW Podcast #494
A domain broker gives me tips to sell more domains. Last week, I talked about how my domain sales are down so far this year. Jeffrey Gabriel, Saw.com founder and domain broker, joins me this week to talk about what I can do to change this trajectory....
Discussion
July 22, 2024, 3:30 pm
