Revenue fell year over year; stock down 25% since earnings report. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) released earnings last week and reported a slight drop in revenue in its domain name business for Q3. The result echoes what many companies in the domain ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Newfold Digital completes MarkMonitor acquisition
· Domain RegistrarsNewfold Digital now owns large registrar for brands. Newfold Digital has completed its acquisition of MarkMonitor. The $302.5 million deal was announced in September. Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), the company that sold MarkMonitor to Newfold, ... Continue Reading1 Comment
CentralNic acquires corporate domain manager
· Domain RegistrarsCentralNic is paying $7.6 million for Intellectual Property Management Company, Inc. CentralNic (London: CNIC) has acquired Intellectual Property Management Company, Inc. (IPM), a corporate domain manager. According to IPM's website, it is a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Woman sues GoDaddy after buying domain from someone whose account is locked
· Domain RegistrarsWoman alleges he bought and paid for a domain that the seller can't transfer to him. A Chinese woman who says she bought 968 .com is suing GoDaddy after the seller was unable to transfer the domain to him. In the lawsuit (pdf), Yuming Hao states ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Latest .com domain name leaders
· Domain RegistrarsThese are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers June 2022. June ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Epik CEO says Masterbucks will return soon with upgrades
· Domain RegistrarsCustomers currently can't withdraw funds from Epik's payments system. [Update: Masterbucks is still down as of the morning of October 11. I've reached out to Epik for comment.] Epik has taken its payments platform Masterbucks, which acts like a ... Continue Reading20 Comments
.Com rankings include a Turkish domain registrar
· Domain RegistrarsThese are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers May 2022. Every once ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Newfold Digital is acquiring MarkMonitor from Clarivate for $302.5 million
· Domain RegistrarsCorporate brand protection registrar has a new owner. Newfold Digital, a large conglomerate of domain name registrars and hosting companies, is acquiring brand protection registrar MarkMonitor from Clarivate (NYSE:CLVT), an IP service roll-up. It ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Epik gets new CEO as Rob Monster moves to non-executive role
· Domain RegistrarsBrian Royce takes over the helm at Epik. Rob Monster is no longer CEO of domain name registrar Epik. The company announced today that Brian Royce will succeed Monster in the CEO role. Monster will be Chairman of the Board. The executive ... Continue Reading11 Comments
News from GoDaddy keynote at NamesCon
· Domain RegistrarsHere's what Paul Nicks announced at NamesCon today. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) President of Domains Paul Nicks gave the opening keynote at NamesCon today. Nicks made an announcement sure to please domain owners: in the future, you'll be able to see ... Continue Reading10 Comments
