DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures I have always been a big fan of GoDaddy Auctions, because it never gets the attention of the expired auction services like NameJet and SnapNames.  This is often due to “quality” but everybody has a budget for investing or buying domains and GoDaddy Auctions seems to fit my budget better. [...] Continue reading →

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Just two days after DomainHoldings reported a huge increase in their 2Q-2014 domain sales, Sedo is out with a report today revealing a 17% increase in their mean average sales price during the first six months of this year vs. the same time frame a year ago. [...] Continue reading →

Web.com’s Q2 revenue numbers don’t hit company’s target. Web.com, which owns Network Solutions, Register.com and SnapNames, released earnings after the bell today. GAAP revenue for the second quarter was $138.2 million. Adjusted revenue was $144.7 million. Although that’s up 10% year-over-year, it’s below the company’s guidance range of $146.0 million to $147.5 million. The company [...] Continue reading →

New service will launch next week. The company behind Estibot is launching a new domain name service called domainIQ next week. domainIQ provides reverse whois (all the domains owned by a person or company), historical whois, and other intelligence about domain names. Many of the features are currently found in DomainTools, and some are also [...] Continue reading →

July was a bit of a slow month for new generic top-level domain (gTLD) launches, with only four cracking the 5,000-registrations mark so far: .voting, .services, .kaufen, and .tokyo, which is now the 20th most popular gTLD overall. But things may be looking up for August, with nine gTLDs containing less than five [...] Continue reading →

Our request to join Google Domains has been granted, and here is the first (exclusive) look at the new domain registrar operated by Google. After entering the access code, the control panel of Google Domains was made accessible. As you can see below, it’s quite basic, containing the options to view My Domains, Transfer In [...] Continue reading →