Joe Styler discusses a new search tool and what's ahead for Domain Academy. Want to find bargains at Afternic? Filtering through Afternic’s 23 million domains just got a lot easier thanks to a new tool in Domain Academy: Afternic Advanced ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy reports Q3 earnings
· Domain RegistrarsRevenue up slightly from a year ago, but segment that includes domains drops slightly. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported earnings after the market closed today. The company grossed $1.07 billion in the quarter, up 3.5% compared to the same quarter a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy adds domain search data to domain control center
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy provides more data to help evaluate your domain names. How interested are people in owning your domain names? Domain investors get very little data about interest in their domains. It can only be measured by traffic to a domain (a bad ... Continue Reading4 Comments
GoDaddy wins reverse domain name hijacking case
· Policy & LawCoffee company loses dispute against GoDaddy's NameFind. NameFind, a GoDaddy subsidiary with a portfolio of about 1 million domains, has successfully defended its domain cappuccine.com in a UDRP. The panel found (pdf) that the Complainant, ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Why your “on hold” domains disappear from your GoDaddy account
· Domain RegistrarsYou'll need to ask for your domain back before you can fulfill the sale. I had a sleepless night the first time it happened. I got a notice of a nice sale at Afternic late at night. The email asked me to unlock the domain and provide the ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Starboard calls for GoDaddy to cut costs
· Domain RegistrarsLarge GoDaddy investor says company should cut costs and not pin hopes on a return of revenue growth. Activist investor Starboard Value, which owns 7.8% of outstanding GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) stock, has called for change at the company. In a letter ... Continue Reading3 Comments
.Com rankings: Gname moves up a spot
· Domain RegistrarsGname jumps a spot on the total domains under management chart. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers May 2023. Gname continues to surge, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
What happened in the domain business last month
· UncategorizedA WordPress giveaway, GoDaddy's new TLDs, and ICANN's weird logic made news last month. Miss any of the big news last month? These were the top five stories on Domain Name Wire, ranked by pageviews: 1. WordPress offers 1 million free transfers ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Remember that time GoDaddy tried to compete with eBay and Amazon?
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy created a goods marketplace in 2009. I've been covering the domain name industry for so long that sometimes I can't remember if something happened in the past or not. Last night I was thinking about a time that GoDaddy tried to create a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy paid up to $39.4 million for top level domains [Updated]
· Domain SalesCompany reveals price of acquisitions. Domain name registrar GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) revealed what it paid for five top level domain acquisitions in Q2. In its most recent 10-Q filing with the SEC, the company reported: During the six months ended ... Continue Reading1 Comment
