Dynadot returned to the top 10; Chinese registrar Chengdu West plummets. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers July 2019. There was a shakeup ... Continue Reading3 Comments
.Com winners and Losers: Dynadot stays hot
· Domain RegistrarsDynadot remains in the top ten registrars for new .com registrations. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers May 2019. Dynadot jumped into the ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Dynadot jumps into top 10
· Domain RegistrarsDynadot jumps into the top ten registrars for new .com registrations. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers April 2019. An anomaly this month ... Continue Reading2 Comments
New TLD Economics with Colin Campbell – DNW Podcast #198
· PodcastsDigging into .Club's revenue and the economics of new TLDs. New top level domain name company .Club landed on the 2018 Inc 5000. The Inc 5000 list shows that it had revenue of $7.2 million but I had lots of questions. Is this “real” revenue? Is the ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Dynadot eclipses 1 million domain name milestone
· Domain RegistrarsDomain name registrar hits key growth milestone. Domain name registrar Dynadot has hit the one million domains under management milestone. The company was founded in 2002 and became ICANN-accredited the following year. It didn't hire its first employee ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Dynadot CEO Todd Han – DNW Podcast #141
· PodcastsHow a bootstrapped domain name registrar attracted a loyal following. What's it like bootstrapping a domain name registrar for 15 years? Find out today as we talk with Todd Han, CEO of Dynadot. The mid-sized registrar has had to grow organically while ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Dynadot to host domain name meetup in San Francisco in July
· Domain RegistrarsDomain meetup to take place in the center of the tech universe. Domain name registrar Dynadot is hosting a meetup in San Francisco next month. I'm not aware of any recent domain name meetups in the city, and you'd think it would be a hotbed for this ... Continue Reading1 Comment
WikiLeaks Domain Not Shut Down, Just DNS
· Policy & LawDomain name not seized or shut down; DNS provider takes action. A story on Guardian.co.uk screams "WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name". This headline is misleading and suggests that the WikiLeaks.org domain name ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Domain Security: Dynadot Offers Two-Factor Authentication
· Domain RegistrarsDynadot secures domains with mobile phone security. In April I wrote a few stories about domain name security tools offered by various registrars. One tool I missed was Dynadot's SMS security tool. It works like this: Account holder receives a ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Dynadot Offers VeriSign’s Expired Domain Data Treasure Trove
· Expired DomainsDynadot extends data use to customers. Last year VeriSign quietly started offering its Internet Profile Service (IPS) to domain name registrars. The service provides traffic data on pending delete domain names. Since VeriSign runs the DNS for .net ... Continue Reading6 Comments