VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results. Verisign ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with 173.8 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 0.2 percent increase from the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, and a net decrease of 0.4 million registrations during [...] Continue reading →

IONOS, Inc was spun off from United Internet and went public in Germany on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The first day of trading had the shares slip below their IPO price. For domain investors the companies under the IONOS umbrella include InternetX and Sedo. MarketWatch wrote: Ionos shareholders United Internet AG and a Warburg Pincus [...] Continue reading →

Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and Payments.co led the way at 45,000 Euro, ($48,060). Pornos.de was second at 35,000 Euro, ($37,380) and Direct-Flights.com was third at $35,000. 43 .com sales 22 cctld sales 11 other tld sales .Com Sales direct-flights.com 35000 USDbeeglobal.com 19500 USDprizeplay.com 15000 USDflirty.com 14000 EURsomethings.com 10000 USDlinapp.com 8888 USDastrophotographie.com 7800 [...] Continue reading →

It looks like Google will be coming out with a rival to ChatGPT. They are calling their “experimental conversational AI service” Bard. In a blog post on Monday, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai laid out what it entails. With so many people buying up keywordai in .com it’s kinda cool Sundar’s last name ends with Ai. [...] Continue reading →

Above.com posted on their blog today that they successfully brokered the sale of the domain name Palestine.com for $194,400. Above.com, a leading provider of domain brokerage services, announces the successful sale of Palestine.com for USD$194,400.00. The buyer and seller have elected to remain anonymous. This marks Above.com’s second top 5 domain sale of the year. [...] Continue reading →

The Swedish Internet Foundation, which manages Sweden’s .se has deactivated the domain name Sci-Hub.se which has been known as the PirateBay of Science, according to TorrentFreak.com. TorrentFreak.com published an article on the takedown. From the article: Major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society are not happy with the rogue research library. [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and ThisAV.com led the way at $99,000. More background on this name here. Juv.com was second at $29,500 and puppytoys.com third at $20,000. 43 .com sales 30 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:     Domain name Date Price Currency       [...] Continue reading →