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.Com slips at GoDaddy

Expirations outpaced new registrations at GoDaddy in December. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers December 2018. Something interesting happened in December: GoDaddy’s .com domains under management (DUMs) dropped. I’ve tracked monthly numbers for a long time and don’t recall this happening in […]

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April 11, 2019 Andrew Allemann Domain Registrars, eigi, gddy, googl, Namecheap, NameSilo, tcx, Tucows

Iceland’s .Is domain is now easier to register

Namecheap becomes biggest registrar to offer .Is domains. Country code domain names are an interesting animal. Some registries make it very difficult to register them; others market them heavily through the registrar channel. One domain that has traditionally been difficult or expensive to register is Iceland’s .IS domain. There are a few registrars, typically brand […]

April 5, 2019 Andrew Allemann .is, Domain Registrars, iceland, Namecheap

Namecheap hits 200,000 domain milestone in Namecheap University program

Domain registrar gives free .me domain name and online tools to students. Domain name registrar Namecheap has hit a big milestone in its Namecheap University program: 200,000 free .Me domain names. The program offers students and educators a free .me domain name and online tools for one year. Namecheap launched the initiative in 2014. It […]

February 27, 2019 Andrew Allemann Domain Registrars, Namecheap, Namecheap for education, Namecheap University

First renewal scam & spam email from an .ICU #domain arrives

The phucksticks that send out fake domain renewal notices have moved to the new .ICU domain – perhaps riding on a low cost promotional campaign. Operating from the lowclassic.ICU domain and a subdomain to evade detection, the spamming jizz guzzle...

November 20, 2018 DomainGang .ICU spam, Domain Crime, domain spammers, ICU, Namecheap, Spammers

Namecheap and Tucows settle legal dispute

Transfer dispute was resolved in a legal settlement. Namecheap and Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) have entered into a settlement agreement to resolve a transfer dispute. Namecheap, a former Enom reseller, sued Tucows (which now owns Enom) because it said that Tucows was dragging its feet over transferring millions of domain names to Namecheap. Tucows said it […]

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November 8, 2018 Andrew Allemann Domain Registrars, Namecheap, tcx, Tucows

#NameCheap and #Adobe in creative partnership

NameCheap, the world’s second biggest domain registrar, announced a new collaboration with Adobe and its Adobe Portfolio platform. The partnership involves the integration of NameCheap as the domain registrar of choice, for professionals that use...

October 15, 2018 DomainGang adobe, Adobe Portfolio, domain name registrar, Namecheap

Namecheap releases interesting data about domain registrations

Report looks and recent and historical data on domain registrations at the registrar. Namecheap released a report today with data about its customers and their choice of top level domain names. The report includes data from the past ten years as well as more recent data incorporating new top level domains. It can be difficult […]

October 10, 2018 Andrew Allemann Domain Registrars, Namecheap

Domain name registrars and .Com, by the numbers

ICANN publishes latest .com data. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) about the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar report covers Maay 2018. There was little change on the charts. For new registrations, NameSilo lept above West.cn for the month. On the top 10 total registrations leaderboard, Xin Net swapped places with GMO. […]

September 4, 2018 Andrew Allemann Domain Registrars, endurance international group, hichina, Namecheap, Tucows, Web.com

Barrage of spam from dot .Date #domain names registered at #Namecheap

A barrage of spam has been arriving in the past few days, from dot .Date domain names. The emails contain the typical variety of spam, ranging from weight loss and hair restoration products, to learning how to fly planes. The dot .Date registry is dot ...

July 17, 2018 DomainGang Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spam, dot .Date, Namecheap, nic.date, Spam, Spammers

June’s top DNW stories

Here’s a rundown of the top stories and podcasts on DNW from last month: 1. Timing is everything: why .XXX dwarfs other adult top level domain names – The .XXX namespace and others recently sold by ICM Registry paint a picture of how difficult it is to market a new TLD in a crowded environment. […]

July 5, 2018 Andrew Allemann Domain theft, godaddy auctions, Namecheap, Web.com

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