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Paul Nicks on the Looking Forward Podcast

April 3, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Jeff Ostroff hosts a podcast called Looking Forward, yesterday he spoke with Paul Nicks of GoDaddy. It's a pretty good listen. Paul just doesn't talk domain names but his background and how he got interested in domain names. … [Read more...]

Radix sees revenues up 31% in 2020 vs 2019

March 18, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Radix published their full year 2020 results and the numbers were up from 2019. The $28 million in revenue was up 31% over 2019. Radix CEO Sandeep Ramchandani, said, “2020 was a really strong year for us, both, financially and strategically. Since a majority of our revenue comes from renewals, we will only start seeing the sharp growth in CoVid-led registrations turn into revenues from Q2 2021. … [Read more...]

Create.com moves to Namecheap as GoDaddy updates policies and unlocks Oxley’s domains

March 18, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Brent Oxley's domain names are now unlocked at GoDaddy. Paul Nicks posted the following at Namepros: All, I’d like to provide the community with another update on the recent situation. I appreciate all the opinions and engagement from the community.As we reviewed our policies and procedures, our goal was to do what’s right for our domain investors and to protect the industry from domain theft. … [Read more...]

Other Registrars reply when asked how they would handle the Oxley situation?

March 10, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

So while there is other stuff going on in domaining, for many the only thing that matters is the Brent Oxley domain lockdown at GoDaddy. Someone registered FireAman.com referring to the CEO of GoDaddy Aman Bhutani and redirected it to the thread on Namepros. I started another thread to get the input from other domain registrars. How would they handle it? Namecheap was approached to lock … [Read more...]

The Brent Oxley domain lockdown turning into PR nightmare for GoDaddy

March 6, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Since James Iles wrote about Brent Oxley having his domain names locked by GoDaddy due to someone filing a complaint in India, Namepros has erupted. Many have started transferring names out, I mentioned the story to someone this morning who neither goes to Namepros anymore or reads most blogs. He replied back 30 minutes later he was transferring his 700 names out. The thread at Namepros … [Read more...]

Verisign DNIB Q4 2020 showed a decrease of 4.4m regs vs Q3 of 2020

March 5, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2020. The fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.2 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2020. According to Verisign domain name registrations grew by 4.0 million, or 1.1 percent, … [Read more...]

Global Domain Report from InternetX and Sedo is a good read

February 22, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Sedo and Internet X produced a Global Domain Report that has a lot of interesting facts and figures. A great look back at 2020 with input from several industry participants. Page 22 is interesting, Domain-inhabitant ratio In order to calculate the domain-inhabitant ratio, they put the domains registered in a given country in relation to the respective number of inhabitants. You can read … [Read more...]

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