- It takes about five minutes, and the penalties for not complying are stiff. Earlier this year, I wrote about a new requirement for business owners in the United States. Nearly all businesses (other than sole proprietorships not filed...
- Lawley didn’t give up the fight for .xxx, which was a commercial success. The founder of ICM Registry, which successfully pushed for an adult namespace on the web, has died at 61, AVN reported yesterday. Lawley fought for many...
- Revenue and bitcoin holdings increase. NameSilo (CSE: URL) (PINKSHEETS: URLOF) reported Q3 earnings, including solid year-over-year revenue growth. The domain registrar posted $14.35 million of revenue in Q3 2024, compared to $12.45...
- .Ai domains under management continue to grow ahead of changeover. Anguilla’s .ai namespace now has 572,575, according to the registry. The registry posted updated numbers on November 27, showing that the universe of .ai domains...
- If only startup founders knew these 20 things about buying domains. Securing the right domain name is crucial for startup success, yet many founders struggle to navigate this essential step. In this episode, Name Ninja Bill Sweetman...
- A trio of 6-figure sales led by one of the year's 10 biggest publicly reported sales to date led the charge on our latest chart. We also saw one of the three biggest ccTLD sales of the YTD and still more solid .ai sales.
- NamesCon Global is on the move and in more ways than one. NamesCon producers announced today that they are moving from Austin, Texas to Miami, Florida for the 2025 conference. In another major development, NamesCon Global announced a new...
- The .ART Registry has released of the second annual issue of its .ART Odyssey publication: themed SUCCESS. This edition dives deep into the concept of success, reimagined through the lens of creativity, resilience, and innovation in...
- It has been a very busy month for Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr. As soon as the 2024 show ended he had to head off to Istanbul for the ICANN meeting. Now that things have finally settled down, Munir shared his thoughts on the...
- After 10 years of know him, I was starting to believe Mark Ghoriafi could actually fly and after his latest stunt as a Premium Broker with Sedo, I'm sure of it! The thing that confirmed my suspicion that he could defy gravity, happened...
- Just two years ago, if someone told you the ccTLD for the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla (.AI) would be lighting up domain sales charts like fireworks on New Year's Eve within 24 months, you would have thought they were crazy. Yet...
- With over 3 million residents already in its metropolitan area, Dubai is still one of the world's fastest growing cities. After just two events, the city's first major domain conference, Domain Days Dubai, looks to be on a meteoric...
- The 2024 Domain Days Dubai (DDD) conference closed this evening with a Yacht Cruise that brought the curtain down on the the second annual event. DDD was created to focus on the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region but others from around...
- VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 3rd quarter of 2024. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all...
- Domain Days Dubai (DDD) made a great first impression when conference founder Munir Badr and his team launched the event in November 2023. So much so that sponsorships and demand for tickets for the second edition of the event, coming up...
- It seems like just about every well-known figure in the domain industry has their own blog, podcast or or social media platform. One thing they have all had in common in a singular focus on domains. Duh, right? Well, there is one...
- The domain aftermarket has a new 2024 King of the Hill, a $14 million sale that almost doubled the price paid for the previous YTD chart topper. We also saw three strong six-figure sales and solid overall strength throughout the market.
- In October of 2004 the historic first domain conference in a game changing series of TRAFFIC shows was staged at the Delray Beach Marriott in Florida. That event was the start of a 10-year run of 28 shows that spread from Delray Beach...
- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2024 .ORG Impact Awards. This 6th annual celebration recognized and rewarded outstanding mission-driven individuals and...
- It has been a busy week for the .ART registry. On Tuesday they announced the winner of the prestigious Digital Innovation in Art Award 2024. GoDaddy VP Paul Nicks was on the 8-person jury that selected the winner. .ART then wrapped up...
- Fall has arrived but domain sales are still flying high. Our latest domain sales report is out (after a one-week delay caused by Hurricane Milton) and the new Top 20 Chart is led by the year's biggest ccTLD sale to date. We also saw...
- Serial entrepreneur Helmuts Meskonis expanded his Internet holdings by purchasing two established domain forums last year and he just acquired another one, ConsultDomain.de, an iconic German online community that had fallen on hard times...
- With GoDaddy acquiring innovative domain sales platform DAN.com and merging it into their own Afternic.com, buyers and sellers saw one of their favorite venues go away, however new options are already starting to surface. One of the most...
- While Domain Days Dubai has a focus on the MENA region, the event attracts attendees form all over the world who come eager to learn more about opportunities in that part of the world. This year there will be more attendees, as well as...
- Radix has found another new way to increase awareness for their innovative services and top level domains. Radix submitted Namify AI (an upgraded AI-powered version of their well established business name generator based at Namify.tech)...
- New DNJ Report includes a chart topping $400,000+ sale... How Braden Pollock turned $15,000 into $150,000 in just 60 days...and the .AI boom continued with the TLD taking five spots on our latest Top 20 Sales Chart.
- The .ART Registry, in collaboration with GP Bullhound Allstars, has unveiled the finalists for the prestigious Digital Innovation in Art Award 2024. This year's finalists represent the forefront of innovation, creativity, and technology...
- The new ICA Trailblazer Award will recognize a company or individual that has significantly advanced the domain name industry by creating an especially innovative product or service with lasting influence on our business. Everyone in the...
- A pair of domain sales totaling $850,000 gave LegalBrandMarketing.com Founder Braden Pollock the top two spots our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, as well as three of the 15 highest publicly reported domain sales year to date....
- Radix has released their latest semi-annual report on the registry operator's premium domain sales results across the 10 TLDs they administer. Their H1-2024 Premiums Report details how Radix generated $5.16 million in Total Premium...
- This has been a busy summer for domain conferences with NamesCon Global in June and Domain Summit in August but there were also more intimate industry gatherings held in tranquil surroundings. A prime example was a free 3-day retreat...
- This continues to be an unusually hot summer for domain sales. Four new six-figure sales lit up our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart with Sedo Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi accounting for the two biggest sales - including...
- The 2024 Domain Summit conference concluded last week in London.Now that Founder Helmuts Meskonis has had a few days to reflect on what was accomplished at this year's event and how the future is shaping up for Domain Summit, we got back...
- ccTLDs were originally created for specific geographic areas but today many serve multiple purposes. Armenia's .am is currently celebrating its 30th birthday with an eye on expanding its horizons.
- The Domain Summit conference will continue through Thursday morning at the Hilton Metropole Hotel with an international crowd on hand. We have some photos and highlights from the opening day.
- The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, have named the finalists for the 6th annual .ORG Impact Awards. PIR also announced that philanthropist, activist, Emmy & Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming will...
- The new domain sales report is out and judging from the latest domain sales, the summer break apparently ended a little early this year - at least for the domain aftermarket. Sales fireworks seemed to be everywhere with a $1 million sale...
- In the latest installment of InterNetX's Snapshot series, All About Domains, DNJournal Founder Ron Jackson discusses how he first discovered the domain business back in 2002 and why he decided to get into it.
- After experiencing tremendous growth with last's year show, Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis and his team have spent the past year expanding the scope of the conference to fully represent the fact that people are now coming to it...
- Two of the domain industry's most enterprising innovators, Saw.com Founder (and super broker) Jeff Gabriel and Efty.com Founder Doron Vermaat have rolled out all new attractive services over the past two weeks. Just yesterday (August 1),...
- With many companies and people on summer holidays, sales data has come in slowly this month but we have enough in now to bring you a meaningful report. With the number of sales reported being lower than usual, it left the door open for...
- At the time of writing this, there are more than 1.8 billion live websites in the world. Back in 1985, when the world's first .com domain was registered, there were merely six . Such an exponential increase in just 36 years doesn't quite...
- Pride month is celebrated worldwide. While it's meant to be a time of celebration for members of the LGBTQ community and their families and supporters, its popularity has also made it a possible target of cyber threats. In this post, we...
- Ranking Digital City Brands / 2021 DOTZON GmbH DOTZON presents the fifth edition of the Digital City Brands study. After introducing the study in early 2017, DOTZON expanded further and enhanced the data to display how cities...
- While Office 365 is one of the most prevalent office suites out in the market today, its users can't rest easy. Cybercriminals and threat actors will always find ways to abuse the most popular brands in various ways. Office 365 has...
- It has been months after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office as president and vice president of the U.S., respectively. And since that time, they were naturally featured in most news outlets. What we wanted to know, though, is how...
- Ramiro Valdés Menéndez "The Internet could and should be controlled and used to serve peace and development." — Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Cuban Minister of Informatics and Communications, 1997 As a result of Internet service...
- On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans, took to the streets in anti-government protests triggered by COVID, the faltering economy, and an overwhelmed healthcare system. In three days, 110 protests took place across the island. The...
- DENIC (the registry of .DE and the top-level domain name extension of Germany) has just recently announced that it has cracked the mark of 17 million domain names registered. As one of the most successful ccTLD's (country-code top-level...
- During ICANN71, the Brand Registry Group (BRG) openly asked potential future applicants what ICANN can do to help prepare them for the next gTLD round (Recording here) . The answer was very clear — commit to opening the next round...