Company will increase marketing plans in second half of year to grow domain name base. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the year. It once again blamed China for much of the drop, noting that its ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign lowers guidance for 2024 after slow Q1
· Uncategorized.Com domain base drops, hurting Verisign's prospects. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released earnings this afternoon and has downgraded its guidance for 2024. The company ended Q1 2024 with 172.5 million domains across .com and .net, down 0.27 million ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy implements new bidder verification system
· UncategorizedStronger ID verification replaces the PayPal verification system. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has introduced a new bidder verification system for new accounts to reduce deadbeat and shill bidders. As has been the case since 2015, new account holders ... Continue Reading3 Comments
No joke: Sumo rebrands to bdow.com
· UncategorizedI understand rebranding, but this? Well, this one is a bit of a head-scratcher. Remember SumoMe? The company paid $1.5 million to acquire sumo.com back in 2017 because people didn't understand its name. It forwarded it to sumome.com. The ... Continue Reading9 Comments
My oh my! Look at these hot keywords in aftermarket domain sales
· UncategorizedAfternic has published its monthly keywords list, showing the most popular keywords in domain names sold on its marketplace in February. My and AI remain the top two sellers this month. Here's the full list, with the previous month's ranking in ... Continue Reading2 Comments
SquadHelp: when you outgrow your brand
· UncategorizedWhy SquadHelp's rebrand to Atom makes sense. SquadHelp announced this morning that is has rebranded as Atom, using the domain name atom.com. Earlier this week I was a guest on a business podcast, where I talked about the importance of domain ... Continue Reading4 Comments
.AI adds another 70k domains in less than four months
· UncategorizedThere's no end in sight for the .ai domain name boom. The domain name registry for .ai domain names has released its latest domains under management figure. The registry disclosed that there are 425,060 registered .ai domains as of today. Here's ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Domains aren’t important? That’s the wrong conclusion.
· UncategorizedThe reason domain names are important has changed over time. A few readers have sent me an article published in The Atlantic this week titled "The Web Became a Strip Mall" with the subhead "Domain names once gave the internet a sense of place. Now ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Oops. Twitter’s latest x.com transition is another fumble
· UncategorizedX.com marks the spot...or does it? Let's face it: Many of the changes X (Twitter) has made under Elon Musk's ownership haven't been well thought out. The company is certainly following the "move fast and break things" business method. Security ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Changing domains is hard. Just ask WordPress
· UncategorizedWooCommerce is moving its domain back to WooCommerce.com after SEO challenges. For all of those that say changing domains is easy, so domain renewal prices shouldn't be capped... WooCommerce, a company owned by WordPress creator Automattic, is ... Continue Reading10 Comments