The legendary domain name investor reflects on new top level domains and talks about his upcoming sale of 23 strings. Frank Schilling is exiting the top level domain business in a big way: he’s auctioning off his 23 top level domains on April 28 in ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Frank Schilling will try to liquidate his 23 top level domain names in a single day
· UncategorizedSchilling will exit the new top level domain game if the price is right. Frank Schilling's top level domain registry UNR is planning to liquidate its TLDs in no-reserve auctions held on a single day. The company currently has rights to 23 top ... Continue Reading15 Comments
UNR acquires .Trust and .LLP top level domains
· UncategorizedCompany now runs 25 top level domains. Frank Schilling's top level domain registry UNR has added two domain names to its stable: .Trust and .LLP. This is the third home for .Trust, as Kevin Murphy reported last week. UNR says that MarkMonitor, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Frank Schilling and XYZ to sell .car, cars and .auto registries
· Domain SalesThree low-volume, high-price domain registries go on the auction block. A partnership between Frank Schilling's UNR and XYZ is auctioning off three domain name registries: .car, .cars and .auto. [Update 8/7/20: XYZ won the auction.] The two ... Continue Reading11 Comments
May’s hottest domain name stories
· UncategorizedNew TLDs, Frank Schilling and .org among popular stories last month. Here's a look back at what caught the most attention on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. More and more companies are using new TLDs - There's more use than before, but numbers ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy assigns $88.5 million value to Frank Schilling’s domain portfolio
· Domain RegistrarsCompany assigns accounting value to Frank Schilling's domain portfolio, which it acquired this year. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has assigned an $88.5 million accounting value to the approximately 375,000 domain names it acquired from Frank Schilling this ... Continue Reading19 Comments
Frank Schilling invests in Desktop.com
· UncategorizedSchilling invests in and partners on Desktop.com. Former domain name investor Frank Schilling, who sold his portfolio and registrar to GoDaddy this year, has partnered with Rolf Larsen on Desktop.com. Desktop.com will make it easier for ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Top domain name stories and podcasts
· UncategorizedHere's what trended in February. These were the top stories on Domain Name Wire in February, ranked by the number of views: GoDaddy acquires Uniregistry and Frank Schilling's domain portfolio - Frank Schilling has cashed out of the domain name ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy’s Uniregistry acquisition was for less than $200 million
· Domain RegistrarsAnnual report shows that deal was for less than $200 million. We now have a better idea of how much GoDaddy paid to acquire Uniregistry and Frank Schilling's domain name portfolio. GoDaddy issued its annual report today. The report states: In ... Continue Reading12 Comments
What GoDaddy’s acquisition of Uniregistry means for domain investors
· Domain RegistrarsLess competition for expired domains, but less competition for registrars, too. Earlier today, GoDaddy announced that it is acquiring Uniregistry and Frank Schilling's domain name portfolio. Here are some ways this will impact the domain name ... Continue Reading13 Comments