GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired 28 new top level domains from MMX, as well as the .Club and .Design top level domains. The company is paying $120 million for the MMX strings. MMX, a publicly-traded new top level domain company had a market cap of £40 ... Continue Reading13 Comments
.Com finished last year with a bang – updated rankings
· Domain RegistrarsA strong month for .com. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers December 2020. Registrars had a strong December for new .com registrations. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Com leaderboard gets a shakeup
· Domain RegistrarsThe Endurance-Web merger changes the look of the charts. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers November 2020. Last month, Endurance ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Earnings report: Quarterly domain revenue tops $400 million at GoDaddy
· Domain RegistrarsDomains segment hits milestone and GoDaddy announces two retirements. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) released Q4 and full-year 2020 earnings today after the market closed. For the fourth quarter, GoDaddy revenue was up 12% year over year to $874 million. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Top .com domain name registrars
· Domain RegistrarsWelcoming CentralNic to the top 10 ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2020. This is the first month that I'm aggregating ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Latest .com ranking has some surprises
· Domain RegistrarsTwo registrars posted big gains in September. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2020. There were a couple of surprises in the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
2020 in Review: Consolidation
· UncategorizedTwo major registries were among the domain name businesses gobbled up in 2020. This is the second in a series of posts about the domain name industry in 2020. Read the others here. If you want to make a guaranteed prediction about the future of ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy to pay up to $365 million for payments company Poynt
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy adds key payments component to commerce platform. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is buying payments processor Poynt for $320 million upfront and up to $45 million in deferred payments. Poynt offers in-store and online payment processing for ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Top .Com domain name registrars
· Domain RegistrarsXin Net continues its fall, Key-Systems jumps. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers August 2020. Xin Net continues its precipitous fall in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Web presence companies ramp up ad spend as demand soars
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy and Wix spend more to capture demand surge during the pandemic. It's been a good year for service providers that help people establish a web presence. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to shift business online in whole or in part. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
