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I am sure just about everyone is familiar with the sales commission changes coming across all GoDaddy properties, (GoDaddy.com, Afternic, DAN.com and Uniregistry). For those not familiar, To simplify commissions, effective Feb. 1, 2023, each marketplace is moving to a 15% commission rate for domain names pointed to Afternic, Dan, or Uniregistry nameservers at the [...] Continue reading
Namebio tweeted out that TXT.com sold for $300,000. The domain name was brokered by Bassir.io. The domain name was registered way back in 1990. Interestingly it sold for the same price as Text.com back in 2007 at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Congrats to the seller and broker. The post TXT.com sells for $300K appeared first on TheDomains.com. [...] Continue reading
Today: StLuciaNewsOnline.com sold for $8,600 / Appraising WiredWager.com / The Appraisal of RichAnalyze.com / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Buying 4L.com with only A, B, C, D, M, R, S, [...] Continue reading
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And in the reverse, domains has us venturing "down the rabbit hole" into different topics all the time. This is a tech-adjacent, digital asset, pop-culture, tangent-positive monthly podcast - with some domains stuff thrown into the mix for good measure. In this special [...] Continue reading
Google Registry has landed itself possibly the highest-profile anchor tenant of the new gTLD program to date — the United Nations. Various UN organizations have picked up about 20 premium .day domains and launched redirects to promote the corresponding UN-recognized issue-awareness days that occur throughout the year. For example UNAIDS has registered aids.day to raise [...] Continue reading
With the role of ICANN CEO opening up for applicants following the resignation of Göran Marby in December, the CEO of VPN.com appears to have thrown his hat in the ring. In an unusual and ambiguous press release, “VPN.com CEO Reviews ICANN CEO Opening”, Michael Gargiulo strongly suggests he’s thinking about applying for the gig, [...] Continue reading
ICANN has deferred action on its recent Independent Review Process defeat over price caps on .org and .info, instead referring the decision to one of its committees. The IRP panel ruled in late December that ICANN broke its own bylaws when it approved the removal of price caps from the .org and .info registry contracts [...] Continue reading
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