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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 registrations, a drop of 1.8 million over the quarter. The domain base is down 2.2% […]

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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 Technology Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter (pdf) to the National […]

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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 over 100,000 fewer .com domains this March than last March. It has 1.2 million fewer .com […]

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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 between May 2023 and April 2024. Notably, this period began shortly after Freenom, a phisher’s favorite because of its free country […]

Post link: New phishing report names and shames TLDs, registrars

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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 sales from last month that have subsequently been developed, […]

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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 complete the transaction. Sellers will need to complete a verification process, and […]

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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. He gives some frank advice about my domains, […]

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Its communications suggest not that much. Lately, Unstoppable Domains has been making a lot of announcements about partnering with companies to apply for top level domains through ICANN. The company currently peddles alt-root blockchain-based domain names to consumers. It has changed its marketing message for the times, pitching them as a backlash against censoring, then […]

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AI could have decided this case. World Intellectual Property Organization published a decision for young.com today. The three-person panel unanimously found in favor of the domain registrant (pdf) and found that Complainant Young Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed the case in bad faith. The panel had especially harsh words for the Complainant, noting that “to assert that it […]

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Brokers can earn a 20% commission by selling domains on Atom. Atom has launched its updated Cloud Broker program, which allows people to earn commissions for selling domains listed on the domain marketplace. Brokers can obtain unique links for domains listed on Atom and earn 20% of the commission if someone clicks through the link […]

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Company searches for the domain name owner in the wrong Georgia. Jorge Almirall registered the domain name almirall.org in 2002 and has used it for email since then. This year, the Spanish pharmaceuticals company Almirall, S.A. filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domain name. With GDPR, nearly all domain names have protected Whois records. As […]

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It was a slow week for domain name sales at Sedo. Sedo published a very short list of sales over $2,000 for the past week, led by FG.org at $95,000. With such a short list, I came up short finding end user sales. So, this week’s report also includes sales from Sedo’s report one month […]

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Escrow.com has second-best quarter of the past two years. Escrow.com released its Q2 2024 Domain Investment Index (pdf) report today, showing an upward trend in domain sales. The company handled $90 million of domain name sales last quarter, up from $84 million in Q1 of this year and $79 million in Q4 of last year. […]

Post link: Domain sales continue to march upward at Escrow.com

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Lease-to-own option now available on GoDaddy-branded lander. Afternic has launched a new landing page option that replaces the Dan.com lander while adding additional features. Called the Custom Lander, it allows domain sellers to offer lease-to-own transactions on a GoDaddy-branded lander (and URL) for the first time. It looks very similar to the old Dan.com lander […]

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Fourth-largest new top level domain registry is in the dog house. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to .TOP Registry, the company behind the .top top level domain name. The breach notice says .top has failed to comply with Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) requests, does not have a proper process for handling DNS abuse […]

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Michael Bang has figured out how to find domains with a good chance of being accepted on Atom. He wants to help other domain investors, too. A lot of rookie domain name investors make mistakes when they choose which domains to register. Michael Bang admits he’s made plenty of mistakes. But using Atom as a […]

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Let’s dig into my sales results this year. How are your domain sales so far this year? Mine…not so great. On today’s show, I share in-depth numbers about my sales in the first half of 2024: sell-through rates, top level domains, where I acquired the domains and more. I also hypothesize about why my sales […]

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GoDaddy’s API changes topped last month’s news. These are the top stories on Domain Name Wire from last month. Get this list earlier by subscribing to the Domain Name Wire newsletter. 1. Developers frustrated by recent GoDaddy API restrictions – Developers say they didn’t get advance notice and only found out about the change when […]

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Attackers are hijacking domains to steal crypto assets. Many web3 companies are reporting that their domains registered at Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) have been hijacked. Earlier today, Unstoppable Domains wrote on X that it is a victim. It is concerned that people are spoofing the company in email and might create a fake website to try […]

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Company alleges that GoDaddy is unfairly blocking it from automating customers’ DNS change requests. A company that helps domain owners update DNS records has filed an antitrust lawsuit against GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. If a customer needs to update their domain’s DNS records to work […]

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