- Even after high-profile domain hijackings, many companies don’t use this low-cost service for added protection. In 2013, a hacker gained access to The New York Times’ domain registrar account and changed the nameservers. It...
- This month has been an absolute whirlwind for .ART CMO Jeff Sass, Over the past 17 days he's gone from Florida to Portland, Oregon to London to Dubai to Dublin, Ireland, spending time in every one of those city's to help grow the...
- DNS Magnitude rankings are a surprising way to look at top level domain popularity. Cloudflare announced today that it is publishing new data related to top level domains and their popularity. The new section in Cloudflare Radar ranks...
- Verisign provides data after short seller raises alarm. Shares in Verisign plummeted on Friday before swiftly recovering. It was a bit surprising to see the decline after Thursday’s earnings release. It seemed like the company had...
- Exploring hype vs. reality in web3 and domain names. There’s been a lot more noise lately about web3 and how blockchain can be applied to domain names. Domain investor Shane Cultra is well-versed in this intersection, so I asked...
- The curtain has come down on the 2025 Domain Days Dubai conference. We have a full conference review coming soon, but in the meantime we have some news about a new name for the show, the dates it will be held in 2026 (and a few snapshots...
- Domain base grew at faster clip in most recent quarter. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced Q3 earnings after the market closed today. The company added 1.45 million domains to the combined .com/.net domain base during the quarter. It...
- The domain aftermarket produced five 6-figure sales over the past two weeks, including two that passed the $700,000 mark. We also saw the highest sales ever reported in both the .ai and .tv TLDs. The hits came from multiple corners. The...
- The 2025 Domain Days Dubai conference is being held Wednesday and Thursday in the UAE metropolis. An innovative RightOfTheDot.com Bid-To-Earn Digital Asset Auction will be an opening day highlight with Tokens.com headlining the 166-lot...
- Hakan Ali and Robbie Birkner have had many successes since entering the domain business over 25 years ago. They started out as fierce but respectful competitors but wound up being friends and have now gone a step further - becoming...
- By now you have probably heard about the record-breaking sale of Wisdom.ai at $750,000 in the highest publicly reported sale of a .ai domain to date. The buyer's representative, Grit Brokerage, lived up to their name by hammering away...
- Over the past 20 years Ammar Kubba has put together a stunning string of successful ventures and investments. That hot streak continues with his latest landmark sale - Wisdom.ai at $750,000, making it the highest publicly reported .ai...
- PIR's 2025 .Org Impact Awards were presented this week, With $180,000 in donations to distribute among the world's most outstanding .orgs, over 3,000 applications poured in. Those were whittled down to winners in seven categories from...
- The back story on this sale is one of the most compelling ones we've seen in a long time. Industry veteran John D. has been toiling in the domain mines for the past 10 years with one prime directive - he would not publicly report a...
- The Internet Commerce Association, the non-profit organization that fights to protect domain owner's rights, continues to add support for its mission from some of the most important players in the domain and Internet industries. The...
- The Domain Days Dubai conference, created by Munir Badr, proved to be a hit right out of the gate with people coming from around the world for outstanding events in 2023 and 2024. Now, with the 3rd edition just 3 weeks away, we connected...
- When the 2025 NamesCon Global conference opens in Miami November 5, Mike Mann will be part of the first panel discussion. Not everyone will agree with what Mike has to say but he will provide his honest opinion on every question - often...
- Dynadot has just added another star performer to the executive team at the rapidly growing domain registrar and marketplace. Multi-talented industry veteran Yiqiu Tao has come on board as Director of Sales. Over the past five years Yiqiu...
- The heat is still on in the domain aftermarket. One of the 10 biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date leads the charge on our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart. We also saw the year's biggest .io sale in one...
- Domain Summit has announced plans to go global with a conference in Africa next year and possibly one in the U.S. in 2027, but no one expected another one this year. Just days after the latest show concluded in London, the conference...
- The .ART domain registry, in collaboration with GP Bullhound Allstars, has announced the five finalists for the 2025 Digital Innovation in Arts & Culture Award (DIAC). These outstanding companies were recognized for leading the way in...
- The .HipHop domain registry has opened an equity crowdfunding campaign with a "Testing the Waters" phase on Wefunder. Cultural innovator DJ Madout signed on as Lead Investor for a campaign that invites investors and the global Hip Hop...
- We've been talking about hot domain sales all summer and from the look of our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart and with autumn less than two weeks away, there is no sign they are about to cool down any time soon. The...
- After a 6-year hiatus, the curtain went back up in India's DomainX conference August 30-31 in New Delhi. The shutdown was precipitated by the Covid pandemic in 2020 but with the global domain industry enjoying a rapid expansion this was...
- The 2025 Domain Summit conference that ran Sept, 2-3 in London had an entirely new look and vastly expanded agenda. Coupled with an all-star lineup of speakers, that was designed to position this year's event as the first in a new line...
- The 2025 Domain Summit conference closed this evening in London, England. This year's event was held in a new venue, the city's roomy and conveniently located Business Design Centre. Domain Summit has been an annual event in London but...
- The hits just kept on coming in the domain aftermarket over the past two weeks. Despite an NDA we got a hint about the price range a Phoenix.com sale fell in. There was also an impressive group of six-figure sales - all from either .com...
- Radix (the administrator of ten new gTLDs) announced the number of premium domain registrations they had in the 1st Half of 2025 soared 50% higher than the same half last year. The Radix onslaught was led by an eye-popping expansion in...
- India's DomainX conference ran annually from 2014-2019 before the Covid pandemic finally brought the train to an abrupt halt. Thankfully, those days are behind us now and the DomainX curtain will rise again when the show returns to New...
- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, have named 35 finalists for the 7th annual .ORG Impact Awards. These special awards recognize outstanding mission-driven individuals and organizations from around the...
- Big .ai sales continue to light up the domain aftermarket. We just learned about yet another one - a sale of Law.ai that is one of the three highest .ai sales ever reported. The deal was closed by Sedo's Mark "Mr. Premium" Ghoriafi, who...
- With sales in the domain aftermarket riding a summer-long hot streak, solid sales continue to be posted across a wide swath of TLDs. However, if you are looking at the high end of the market as reflected by our bi-weekly all-extension...
- Four years ago this month we first told you about an ambitious new project launched by domain industry pioneer and successful serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia. Titan was Bhavin's vision for a service designed to revolutionize business...
- Explosive growth and new developments in the domain industry make it increasingly difficult to keep up with everything going on around us. The good news is that the number of resources needed to cover it all is growing too. One of the...
- Startup D3 Global has taken on the Herculean task of merging the Web2 and Web 3 domain worlds. That is an appealing prospect to many because it would let legacy domains take advantage of valuable features made possible by Web3 protocols....
- Sedo's Senior Sales and Brokerage Consultant Dave Evanson has been ringing up big money domain sales for the past 20 years and he is still hitting them out of the park. His latest towering blast, just closed today, was a $1,000,000 sale...
- PayPal just announced a new service that will allow merchants to accept over 100 cryptocurrencies.The mainstreaming of cryptocurrency is something well-known domain industry entrepreneurs Lars Jensen, Stevan Lieberman, Thomas Medard and...
- VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 2nd quarter of 2025. This update showed the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs...
- NamesCon Global's first visit to Florida is coming up November 5 & 6 when the big show cones to Miami. Ticket prices will be going up on August 1but If you act before then you can get them at the current price and take another 20% off by...
- The amazing summer sales crescendo has grown even louder since our last bi-weekly report with eight newly reported 6-figure sales leading the way on our latest all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart. Sedo blew the roof off the place in posting...
- In a special edition of the Inside Ionos podcast, co-hosts Thilo Haertel and Simone Catania drew insight into the latest industry trends from four prominent guests. Meanwhile, .ART is making plans for a groundbreaking webinar/live tour...
- No matter how good your domain name is, if people can't find it you're not going to be able to sell it. With millions of domain names available on the aftermarket, businesses have some very deep water to wade through in search of the...
- Everybody hit the dance floor in the domain aftermarket over the past couple of weeks. Led by a 7-figure ..com sale and the year's biggest sales to date in both the ccTLD and Non .com gTLD categories - the joint has been rocking! The non...
- Fireworks weren't confined to the sky over America's 4th of July holiday weekend. The domain aftermarket was getting lit up too with the biggest blast coming Sunday morning when we learned that Hilco Digital brokered a $1.5 million sale...
- Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis has produced successful conferences in London for each of the past three years. In that situation most would stick with a formula that has been working but this year Meskonis decided it was time to...
- The 4th annual InterNetX Domain Summit was held June 25th & 26th in Frankfurt, Germany. As has been the case with each edition of this popular conference, attendees came from across Europe and beyond to catch up on the latest...
- 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...