Two 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
How domain stocks are faring in 2020
· UncategorizedEndurance leads the way after acquisition. It's been a wild ride in the stock market this year. On March 14, I wrote about how domain name stocks fared during the pandemic market crash up through the close on March 13. I wrote an update in May ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy completes Neustar Registry acquisition
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy is now in the registry business. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has completed its acquisition of Neustar's domain name registry business, marking a big entry into the wholesale part of the domain business. The company announced the $218 million ... Continue Reading2 Comments
GoDaddy and Verisign get more patents
· Policy & LawCompanies keep building their patent war chests. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted two patents to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) and one to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) today. The two companies are the most prolific patent filers in the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy’s domain privacy email buries the lede
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy customers are unlikely to understand their options. GoDaddy has begun sending emails to customers about changes to domain privacy. As I wrote about on June 8, the company has started redacting personal information from Whois ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Top ten domain name registrars, ranked by .com
· Domain RegistrarsA monthly look at the latest .com data ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers December 2019. Wix landed in the top ten list for new .com ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Latest .com rankings
· Domain RegistrarsHere's how registrars performed in the latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2019. There was a bit of shakeup ... Continue Reading1 Comment
