SPAC gobbles up Clarivate Analytics, the company that owns MarkMonitor. Brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor will soon be part of a public company. MarkMonitor parent company Clarivate Analytics is merging with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) Churchill Capital Corp. Churchill raised $690 million in an IPO last September, the most raised in a [...] Continue reading →

A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on February 26, 2019. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve.  I’m only showing where [...] Continue reading →

Every week, we get to hear about some of the domain industry's largest recent sales thanks to DNJournal's highly respected weekly sales chart. However, most sales do not get reported for one reason or another. Experts such as Jamie Zoch (@Yofie) regularly post domain name movements, but naturally, some deals go under the radar. [...] Continue reading →

Fancy Bear Awakens From Its Winter Slumber Coming up this week on Breaking Badness. Today we discuss the DNSpionage, Fancy Bear (APT28) is Back at it Again, and WinRAR Hasn’t... [...] Continue reading →

Service connects podcasters with thousands of experts for interviews. Podcasts are exploding. Spotify recently bought podcast producer Gimlet and Anchor for well over $200 million. A company called Himalaya launched with a $100 million investment and is snapping up podcasts. PodcastGuests.com, a service I started about three years ago, is also growing quickly. This [...] Continue reading →

The 2019 NamesCon live auction was held on January 28, and the extended auction ran for a few weeks after the live auction concluded. This morning, I received the full 2019 NamesCon auction sale list, which I shared below. These sales include domain names that were sold in both the live and extended auctions. In [...] Continue reading →

ICANN chief technology officer David Conrad is now “overseeing” the IANA part of the organization, ICANN has announced. It doesn’t appear to be a promotion or change of job titles as much as a reporting structure adjustment made in the wake of a change of management at the Global Domains Division. Kim Davies is still [...] Continue reading →