In 28 years of domaining you see a lot, I have been on forums where people believed domain investors should be thrown off a mountain because they were sitting on a domain name they wanted. Others resorting to the traditional reverse domain name hijacking. But it seems like someone has started a Change.org petition to get a domain investor to sell them a domain name. The company is called Devco, … [Read more...]
InterNetX/Sedo release their Global Domain Report for 2024
InterNetX spends a great deal of time and effort each year to produce their Global Domain Report. This year there is a large emphasis on A.I both the technology and .ai domain names. There is a lot of data, comments from industry participants including Andrew from DNW, Elliot at DomainInvesting.com, Page Howe, Theo from DomainGang.com, Neha Naik from Radix, Munir Badr, Joe Alagna and many … [Read more...]
John Berryhill posts a warning about dealing with GoDaddy brokers
John Berryhill does not start many threads at Namepros. He is a valuable contributor and answers a lot of questions in existing threads. So when he started one I wanted to read what he had to say. The post was published in Warnings and Alerts. The title was eye catching, "Why You Can't Trust GoDaddy Brokers" John goes on to explain some of the problems he sees when dealing with brokers who do … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Q1 2023 earnings miss, stock down in after hours trading
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported their Q1 2023 earnings. Stock was down 7% in after hours trading to $67. It closed at $72.29 during normal trading hours. They came out with quarterly earnings of $0.30 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.52 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.41 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This … [Read more...]
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index Q4 2022
Escrow.com published their Domain Investment Index for Q4 2022. You can view the full report here. Year-on-year, Escrow has seen a 49.26% decrease in the total value of domain name transactions from $158M in 4Q21 to $80M in 4Q22. Over 75% of the fall in 4Q22 is attributable to the decrease in the volume of domain name transactions, which decreased by 20% from US$514M in FY21, to $411M … [Read more...]
InternetX/Sedo Global Domain Report 2023
InternetX and Sedo (advertisers here) released their Global Domain Report for 2023. This really is the most thorough deep dive into the industry that any company publishes all year, that is not said because they are an advertiser but because it is a fact. The report has many sections that take a look at the industry as a whole, then taking specific deep dives into the registrar, registry and … [Read more...]
A look back at 2022 from Crypto to Web3 to .xyz and more
First and foremost a Happy and Healthy New Year to all our readers, advertisers and partners. Looking back at 2022 it was quite the interesting year. From NFTs, Crypto, .xyz and DAN being acquired, there was a lot going on. One theme that has been developing for awhile really took hold in 2022. The decentralization of domain investor engagement and commentary. If you go back a decade … [Read more...]