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The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. My experience shows that 700 or 800 (or even less) ...
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May 21, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
Global domain name growth has slowed down during the first quarter of 2019. That is not a concern to me as growth is bound to slow down sometime, especially for New gTLDs. We have enough domains as it is. CENTR published its CENTRstats Global TLD Repor...
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May 16, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
The .Blog domain name registry, owned by Automatic and WordPress, has decided to leave Nominet for CentralNic regarding registry backend services. .Blog was launched using Nominet but the registry has decided to switch to CentralNic without giving too ...
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May 16, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Escrow.com released its Domain Investment Index for Q1 2019 that provides insight into the domain name market for the quarter as compared to previous quarters. The latest data from Escrow.com reveals a variety of factors influence the value of domain n...
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May 15, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
Please spend 5 minutes TODAY to send an email to ICANN about opposing the .biz domain name price increase and URS! This is the email address to use: comments-biz-renewal-03apr19@icann.org You just send a simple email saying you oppose the fact that ICA...
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May 13, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) announced audited results ahead of consensus forecasts for the year ended 31 December 2018. Financial Summary Revenue up 100% to £42.7m (2017 £21.4m*) Gross Profit up 69% to £19.7m (2017: £11.6m*) Adjusted EBITDA** up 66% to £7.0...
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May 13, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Tucows first quarter 2019 results include 13 days of contribution of Ascio Technologies (“Ascio”), which the Co...
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May 9, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
For years now I have been complaining that there is not enough time to pay by wire transfer for a domain name won at GoDaddy auctions. Last time I wrote about this was last summer: “GoDaddy domain auctions and payments – Let’s set the record stra...
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May 8, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
buy domains, Domain Name News
Namecheap is the first registrar that I see opposing the removal of price caps on several legacy top level domains such as .org, .info and .biz. (Also don’t forget .asia.) If you see any other registrars opposing these huge price increases please...
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April 26, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
The ICA has created an easy-to-use Form for you to submit your objections to ICANN regarding its proposed removal of all price caps on several domain name extensions. Although the form focuses on .org you can also use this form to create a similar comm...
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April 24, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News