Donuts published their April domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. From the report: In the month of April 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 25% shorter and were hyphenated 5% less than .com domain registrations. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of April [...] Continue reading →

100% of .Tech Domain Sales Made Through GoDaddy, Domain.com & Namecheap to Go Towards Enhancing K-12 CS Curriculum .Tech Domains, the leading new domain extension for the tech ecosystem, recently announced that it is collaborating with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools. The campaign, which is called #MyStartInTech, will [...] Continue reading →

BULLISH.COM sold for $1,080,000 last November at Best Web. Today Bloomberg published a piece on how the million dollar domain name will be used. It will be a crypto exchange. Bullish will offer institutional and retail investors market making, lending and portfolio management services without use of intermediaries like banks. From the article: Bullish, as [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Volka.com led the way at $54,000. Hina.com was second at $50,000 and SimplexTrading.com third at $28,000. 46 .com sales 28 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    · simplextrading.com at 28,000 USD · coinbvase.com at 10,000 USD · goldguide.com at [...] Continue reading →

“You come at the king you best not miss” David Pierce over at Protocol wrote an interesting article with a provocative title. The plot to kill .com. In the interview Pierce discussed how the buyers of Angel.com went on their journey to rebrand and finally end up with the best name possible. Paul Nicks is [...] Continue reading →

GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Fox Business. Aman starts out talking about small businesses and the effects of the pandemic. Around the 2:37 mark Liz Claman asks Aman about the auction market. Aman mentioned record growth on the auction side. I thought it was interesting that Liz said, It’s almost like trading stocks, trading [...] Continue reading →

Q1 revenue rose 13.8% to $901.1m, net income was $10.8m, and unlevered free cash flow grew 14.4% to $268.3m Bookings rose 14% to $1b, the first time for GoDaddy to reach that level. GoDaddy raised its full-year revenue expectations to $3.745b, representing 13% growth for the year, and boosted its full-year unlevered free cash flow [...] Continue reading →