Jonathan Tenenbaum served as the General Manager at NameJet from 2014 until he was promoted to the role of Vice President of Aftermarket Strategy and Revenue at Web.com in 2018. Jonathan managed NameJet since it had been a joint venture between Enom and Web.com up through Web.com took over complete control of the auction platform [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon, Brandsight SVP Matt Serlin announced that his company is looking to hire a domain industry veteran in an account management role: Brandsight is a corporate domain name management and advisory firm. The company manages the domain name portfolios of large companies like Ally Bank, Yeti, Weight Watchers (WW), Claire’s, and other large companies. [...] Continue reading →

Every day, it seems like more and more startups and companies launch on, or move to, .com alternative domain name extensions. Some do this out of necessity because the matching .com is unavailable or too expensive, and others do it for branding or other marketing purposes. In my opinion, if a company uses an alternative [...] Continue reading →

Google is the company that operates the .App domain name extension. On the Google Developers Twitter account earlier this week, the company posted a link to a YouTube video where the founder of a startup called Fluz discussed why he chose the Fluz.app domain name for his business. In the video, the founder mentioned two [...] Continue reading →

There’s a pretty active thread on Twitter discussing the domain name rebranding of a company called Supply. The company had been using the GetSupply.com domain name for its business, but it just announced it changed its url to Supply.CO. The founder of the company indicated this was a difficult decision to make that took nearly [...] Continue reading →

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) released the names of the nominees for the 2020 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award. The award, which is named in memory of Lonnie Borck, will honor someone “whose contributions have fostered a sense of community within the domain name industry.” There were nine people from within the domain investor community who [...] Continue reading →

Neustar, the company that operates the .US domain name extension, will be hosting a .US Stakeholder Town Hall webcast meeting on October 24, 2019. The primary topic of the Town Hall webcast is for the .US management team to discuss its recent developments to promote the use of .US domain names. .US registrants will also [...] Continue reading →