VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the second quarter of 2021. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $329 million for the second quarter of 2021, up 4.8 percent from the same quarter in 2020. Verisign reported net income of $148 million and diluted earnings per share (diluted “EPS”) of $1.31 [...] Continue reading →

Nominet announced the appointment of Andy Green CBE as Chair of its Board of Directors, and Eva Lindqvist as Non-Executive Director. An experienced director, Andy is a National Infrastructure Commissioner and Chair of WaterAid UK and Vice Chair of the Disasters Emergency Committee. He was formerly CEO of BT Openworld, BT Global Services and Logica. [...] Continue reading →

Where does news appear on Google? News content can appear on several different Google products, including Google News, Google Search, Google Assistant, YouTube, and Discover. For the purposes of this post, we’ll focus on Google News and the News surfaces within Google Search, since most publisher questions pertain to these products. Google News (which comprises [...] Continue reading →

Mike Mann reported 9 of his domain name sales in June 2021 for a total of $148,802. Reported prices started at $8,750 and went up to $29,888. Mike sold 9 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $16,534. If you want to further understand Mike Mann’s pricing and sell-through rates read here: A [...] Continue reading →

Spamhaus: “After many years with no change at the top of the Spamhaus registrar reputation rankings, we finally have some movement!”. Read here Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused top-level domains, Q2 2021 NameSilo We saw an enormous 594% increase of newly registered botnet C&C domains at the US domain registrar NameSilo, knocking Namecheap off their [...] Continue reading →

Further to the announcement dated 8 April 2021, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that it has received consent from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) to transfer four top-level domains (“TLDs”) and conditional consent to transfer 18 other TLDs owned and operated by MMX to Registry Services, LLC (“GoDaddy Registry”), [...] Continue reading →

DAN 2.0 went live today with a lot of changes. Frank Koelewijn, Head of Brand & Design, said today: “We started Dan with a mission to empower entrepreneurs and make the domain world a better, more transparent place. We are pioneering as the partner of entrepreneurs, stakeholders, and the rest of the industry to name, [...] Continue reading →