With the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic still spreading throughout the United States and the world, companies have had to make adjustments, particularly as it relates to employees working out of the office. GoDaddy, with more than 9,000 employees, has had the bulk of its employees work from home since March of this year. GoDaddy recently announced [...] Continue reading →

Many of the domain names were subsequently sold. 15 domain names beginning with “go” have allegedly been stolen and many of them have been resold — creating a complicated issue now in the courts. Scott Petretta registered the domain names about two decades ago as part of his business Multi-Force Corporation. The names include [...] Continue reading →

It's been a while since I checked in to see how the U.S. is doing in the 5G race. I haven't been following the issue since before the pandemic when the U.S. government was tossing around the idea of buying a controlling interest in Nokia or Ericsson. That idea went nowhere but led to a [...] Continue reading →

Michael Saylor, visionary CEO of Microstrategy, who sold Voice.com last year and converted $400M into Bitcoin, joins Media Options CEO Andrew Rosener to discuss domain names, domain valuation, the dematerialization of assets, and so much more!They discuss why it's time to rediscover the criticality of owning your own domain, and why to sell, market and [...] Continue reading →

With the deadline for commenting on draft new gTLD program rules rapidly approaching, you may be tempted to visit the ICANN web site to peruse the comments that have already been submitted by others. Good bloody luck. The way ICANN has chosen to present the comments is so bafflingly opaque, confusing and confounding that I [...] Continue reading →

Back in 2010 Bill Kara shocked the domain world by paying $350,000 for CookingGames.com. Now he his back in the news with another big buy. [...] Continue reading →

Funds will be used to complete Codewise acquisition. CentralNic is raising funds to buy two businesses under the Codewise umbrella, including ZeroPark (pictured) Domain name rollup CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) is placing 40 million new ordinary shares tomorrow at £0.75 per share to raise £30 million. The company will use the funds to complete its [...] Continue reading →