Donuts published their April domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. From the report: In the month of April 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 25% shorter and were hyphenated 5% less than .com domain registrations. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of April … [Read more...]
Radix’s .Tech Domains Partners with Code.org & Domain Industry Giants to Bridge the Widening Gender & Race Gap in Computer Science
100% of .Tech Domain Sales Made Through GoDaddy, Domain.com & Namecheap to Go Towards Enhancing K-12 CS Curriculum .Tech Domains, the leading new domain extension for the tech ecosystem, recently announced that it is collaborating with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools. The campaign, which is called #MyStartInTech, will address the widening … [Read more...]
Bullish.com featured on Bloomberg – Details on development of the $1m domain name
BULLISH.COM sold for $1,080,000 last November at Best Web. Today Bloomberg published a piece on how the million dollar domain name will be used. It will be a crypto exchange. Bullish will offer institutional and retail investors market making, lending and portfolio management services without use of intermediaries like banks. From the article: Bullish, as the exchange will be known, is … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain sales led by Volka.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Volka.com led the way at $54,000. Hina.com was second at $50,000 and SimplexTrading.com third at $28,000. 46 .com sales 28 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · simplextrading.com at 28,000 USD · coinbvase.com at 10,000 USD · goldguide.com at 8,000 USD Domain … [Read more...]
Is there a plot to kill .com?
"You come at the king you best not miss" David Pierce over at Protocol wrote an interesting article with a provocative title. The plot to kill .com. In the interview Pierce discussed how the buyers of Angel.com went on their journey to rebrand and finally end up with the best name possible. Paul Nicks is in the article, Paul was quoted as saying, If you don't own the .com, you will … [Read more...]
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani on Fox Business
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Fox Business. Aman starts out talking about small businesses and the effects of the pandemic. Around the 2:37 mark Liz Claman asks Aman about the auction market. Aman mentioned record growth on the auction side. I thought it was interesting that Liz said, It's almost like trading stocks, trading domain names. People make a lot of money doing that, I … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Q1 revenue up 13.8% – $775m share repurchase authorized
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported first quarter earnings today. After hours 82.75 +0.51 (0.62%) GoDaddy raised its full year revenue expectations by $45 million to $3.745 billion, representing approximately 13% year over year growth. Revenue growth by category is expected to approximate double-digit growth in Domains, high-single-digit growth in Hosting and Presence, and high-teens growth in … [Read more...]