GoDaddy Auctions increases its expired domain footprint. Namecheap is the latest domain name registrar to send its expired domain name inventory to GoDaddy Auctions. A Domain Name Wire reader noticed a domain in the GoDaddy Auctions expiry stream ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Namecheap jumps up .Com leaderboard
· Domain RegistrarsNamecheap gets boost from bulk transfer from Tucows. ICANN has published the latest official .com data from January. January is typically an up month for domain name registrations as the year kicks off, and you'll see that in the data. Namecheap ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Digging into Tucows’ annual report
· Domain RegistrarsSome notable items from Tucows' 10-k. Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) filed its annual report yesterday. Here are some things I found interesting: 1. The company now has 558 full-time employees. With $329 million in revenue, that's about $600k of revenue per ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Kings of .Com – Registrar Analysis
· Domain RegistrarsThese are the biggest registrars for .com domain names. ICANN has published Verisign's most recent official breakdown of domain transactions by registrar. The data are from November. Starting with this month's .com registrar post, I'm going to show ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Com’s Top Registrars
· Domain RegistrarsThese are the biggest registrars for .com domain names. ICANN has released Verisign's most recent official breakdown of domain transactions by registrar. The data are from October. In October, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Namecheap leaps up .com chart as PDR falls
· Domain RegistrarsThere was movement on the top .com registrars rankings in the most recent ICANN report. ICANN has published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for September 2017. Here are the top registrars ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Court orders Tucows to transfer 3.2 million domains to Namecheap
· Domain RegistrarsWith deadline looming, injunction forces Tucows to transfer domains. A Washington State court has ordered Tucows to transfer 3.2 million .com and .net domain names to Namecheap, and an appeals court has denied (pdf) Tucow's motion for an emergency ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Black Friday: $3.99 .com domains
· Domain RegistrarsThere are discounts on .com domains this Black Friday. As expected, lots of domain name registrars are offering discounted domain names today for Black Friday. Many have deals on new top level domains, but the deals are no better than what you can ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Namecheap drops lawsuit against Tucows
· Domain RegistrarsCompanies appear to be resolving their disagreement outside of court. Domain name registrar Namecheap has dropped its lawsuit against Tucows. [Update: they refiled it somewhere else.] Namecheap has historically been a domain name reseller using ... Continue Reading2 Comments
September’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
· UncategorizedFrom a police raid to a lawsuit, here are top stories from September. It's time for a look back at the past month on DNW. These were the top five stories on this site, ranked in order of views. Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices - ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment