- Start the new year off right by taking care of these three tasks. The turn of the calendar can be a fresh start. I use it as a reminder to perform tasks that should be done periodically. Here are three things I did this month to maintain...
- Here are 20 end user domain sales that took place over the holidays. Sedo recently published lists of sales from the holiday season. In today’s post, I review 20 end user sales that took place during the two weeks ending January 5....
- Registrar offers big discount with no limits. I do not often write about a domain name registrar’s sale prices, but a new deal starting today warrants its own story. Domain name registrar Spaceship began offering new .com...
- DomainTools CEO discusses the move to RDAP and how companies use DNS data to thwart attacks. Many listeners know DomainTools for its database of historical Whois records, domain monitoring, and other domain data. However, the company and...
- Picking up where he left off in 2024, Mr. Premium, Mark Ghoriafi, has shot out of the 2025 gate with another eye-popping sale - a $600,000 deal that has smoke coming out of our calculator. Mark worked through the holidays to wrap up long...
- Here’s what made news in December. 1. Stuart Lawley, who fought for .xxx, has died – Lawley, former CEO of ICM Registry, died at 61. 2. Companies refile expired domain clawback lawsuit against GoDaddy – Two buyers of...
- The 2024 domain sales season ended on a high note with a boatload of high end sales posted including the fifth publicly reported million dollar+ sale of the year. It was a good way to ring our the old and boost optimism for the new year...
- Two of the most widely-known and successful players in the traditional domain world, Fred Hsu and Paul Stahura, have joined forces in a new company, D3, that hopes to make it possible for ALL domains, including new Web3 TLDs, to work on...
- There's a reason they call him the Domain King. For the past 30 years Rick Schwartz has been posting one blockbuster sale after another. Hs revealed his latest this morning - the final day of 2024 - when Rick announced the closing of a...
- The calendar says we are in the middle of the holidays but it looks like a lot of buyers are still on the job! We saw some of the highest publicly reported sales of the year since our last bi-weekly report, including two of the year's...
- Colin Campbell wrote one of the best business books I've ever read - Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. (the end result of a 10-year journey) and it just won a huge honor with a place on the Kirkus Reviews Top 100 Indie Books list for 2024 and...
- .ART made a big move by acquiring HUG, a popular social marketplace co-founded by Randi Zuckerberg (whose brother is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerburg) and Debbie Soon. I happened to be in Fort Lauderdale soon after the news came out, so...
- In over 20 years of posting domain sales charts we've never seen one that looked our latest one. While we have seen a single TLD sweep 15 or more entries on a single Top 20 chart, that TLD was always .com - but not this week. Led by an...
- The domain industry's 2024 global calendar was stuffed with an extraordinarily rich variety of conferences and events. The success of those many meetings underscored how broad the appeal of this business has become around the world. We...
- I spent some of the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend catching up on my reading, with InterNetX's 2024 edition of their comprehensive All About Domains series of E-Papers at the top of my list. InterNetX launched the annual project,...
- 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...
- 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...
- The U.S. government released the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity in May 2021, highlighting the rationale of a zero-trust security approach. While the order only covers the government's digital infrastructure, this...
- Download the best practice guide here . Over the past few months, the Western world has begun to slowly recover from the economic disaster COVID caused. Many countries have been able to speed up their vaccination program and abandon...
- The release of a new application or operating system (OS) is typically greeted by enthusiasm, diverse opinions, and potential threats. Windows 11's case is no different as we identified various assets that could be misused on the...
- A recent study carried out by Governance Primer on behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) identified trends in the acceptance of all domain names in software hosted at Github, the largest open-source repository...
- Web categorization engines and related tools are built to help organizations classify websites they do business or generally interact with. WhoisXML API's Website Categorization API and Website Categorization Lookup used to classify...
- A recent report " Domain Security: A Critical Component of Enterprise Risk Management ” published by the Interisle Consulting Group highlights why domain security should be a critical component of enterprise risk management, a...
- Co-authored by David Barnett, subject matter expert, Brand Monitoring and Pascal Rodax, manager, Business Development Following our previous article on the Euro 2020 football tournament that looked retrospectively at domain name...
- Liberty Front Press is a fake news network that has been operating since Trump's administration and was said to be designed to leverage liberal resentment against the former U.S. president while promoting pro-Iranian foreign policy...