Doug Isenberg at Giga.Law posted a video and post on a record year for domain name disputes. From the article: One more reason that could be contributing to the rise in domain name disputes is a little bit of additional interest in some of the new top-level domains. In the second quarter of 2021, the .shop TLD appeared in the most number of disputes behind .com across all of the UDRP dispute … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB Q3 2021 (.Com and .net 172.1 million domain name registrations at the end of the third quarter of 2021)
Verisign (VRSN:NASDAQ) released their Q3 2021, Domain Name Industry Brief EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021.1,2 Domain name registrations have decreased by 6.1 million, or 1.6%, year over … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Q3 revenue rose 14% year over year. Stock up close to 9% in after hours trading
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported strong Q3 earnings and the stock was up close to 9% in after hours trading. Highlights: Q3 revenue rose 14% year over year to $964m and bookings rose 10% year over year to $1.04bDomains revenue in Q3 grew 17% YoY to $453m, Hosting & Presence revenue grew 7% YoY to $325m, and Business Applications revenue grew 20% YoY to $186mGoDaddy's Websites + … [Read more...]
Verisign down 6% in After hours trading on Q2 earnings miss
VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported on Thursday second quarter earnings that missed analysts' forecasts and revenue that topped expectations. VeriSign announced earnings per share of $1.31 on revenue of $329.4M. Investing.com reported that analysts polled by Investing.com anticipated EPS of $1.36 on revenue of $327.97M. VeriSign shares are up 7% from the beginning of the year, still down … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz wins greatest domain investor of all time in dual polls
The results of our poll for greatest domain investor of all time are in. The poll was also conducted on Namepros to see how different audiences view the best. Rick Schwartz won going away at both sites. Rick took 24% of the vote here at TheDomains.com and 32.7% at Namepros. Frank Schilling took second at Namepros. Frank was behind both Mike Carson and Andrew Rosener at TheDomains. They tied for … [Read more...]
Some Australian researchers want to see .CC taken away from Verisign
Like .com, .net and .tv, Verisign is the registry provider for .cc, the country code for Cocos (Keeling) Islands. This is an Australian territory. So TheGuardian published an article today from Josh Taylor with the headline, "Australia urged to take control of Cocos .cc internet domain to foil scammers and child abuse sites". Interestingly one of the researchers said, “It’s also very short … [Read more...]
Who is the greatest domain name investor of all time (2021 edition)
It's been 7 years since we did a poll on the greatest domain name investor of all time. Frank Schilling won back in 2014. Over the last 7 years many new investors have come into the business. Some investors might be perceived differently today than during the last poll, so here is the 2021 poll. Sometimes people ask what is meant? Like so and so might not have made as much money but they … [Read more...]
