Domain investor advocacy group will make its next member call public. The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a group that advocates for domain name owners, is holding a public webcast on Friday to update domain investors on policy issues. This is ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign’s Annual Report and .com price increases
· Policy & LawVerisign's 10-K gives clues to how it is approaching a .com price increase. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) published its 2018 annual report on Friday. I reviewed the document to look for information about Verisign's hopes of raising the price of ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Third day of NamesCon kicks off in Las Vegas
· UncategorizedCome to my two sessions today at NamesCon. The third day of the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas is about to begin. I'm on two panels today that I invite you to attend. At 11 am I will chat with Blake Janover of Home.loans and Mike Kugler of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
My two sessions at NamesCon
· ServicesJoin me for discussions about big new TLD sales and .com prices. I will be both a moderator and panelist at next week's NamesCon conference. I invite you to come to my sessions on Tuesday. Making sense of $500k for a nTLD, 11 am Tuesday 1/29 on ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Year in Review: Verisign gets its price hikes
· Policy & LawThe U.S. Government gave the green light to increase prices on .com domain names. It's an obscure contract issued by the U.S. government. For the domain industry, it means a lot. On November 1, The U.S. National Telecommunications and ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign adds nearly 2 million .com/.net domains in Q3
· Services.Com continues to chug along. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported third-quarter 2018 results yesterday. On the domain name side, the company processed 9.5 million new .com/.net registrations during Q3. After accounting for deletions, 1.99 million ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
“Stop the Price Increase of .COM” petition gains steam
· Policy & LawInternet Commerce Association, a group that represents the interests of domain name owners, is pushing a petition to tell the U.S. Government to continue to intervene to prevent Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) from increasing prices on .com domain names. The ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Giuseppe Graziano launches three-letter domain marketplace
· Domain SalesNew domain marketplace is dedicated to just 17,576 possible domains. Giuseppe Graziano, a domain broker who runs GGRG.com, has launched a new marketplace for buying and selling three-letter .com domain names. GGRG.com has always specialized in short ... Continue Reading4 Comments
The latest .Com Leaderboard
· Domain RegistrarsHere's how registrars performed in the latest official Verisign report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign about the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar report covers April 2018. Chinese registrars continued to add ... Continue Reading2 Comments
How Verisign hit its Q1 growth numbers
· Domain RegistrarsVerisign called on China to deliver Q1 domain growth. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) provides guidance each quarter for how much it expects its total base of .com and .net domain names to grow. The company hardly misses because it's quite easy ... Continue Reading2 Comments