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Web.com aftermarket sales up to $45k

Four-number domain leads the charts in March. Web.com’s aftermarket platforms NameJet and SnapNames tallied up 97 sales of $2,000 or more last month, led by 4349.com at $35,400. Sales of $2,000+ domains totaled nearly $500,000. Some of the other notable sales include: DoubleDutch.com $20,000 – The buyer is the co-founder of MarketMuse. I assumed it […]

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NamesCon auction lifts Web.com sales in February

Web.com’s marketplace sales from February were low, but NamesCon juices numbers. February was a very slow month at Web.com’s sites NameJet and SnapNames. If you exclude sales from the NamesCon auction, they had only 44 sales of $2,000 or more totaling $211,000. Including the auction they had 86 sales for a total of about $2.5 […]

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Web.com Domain Registries, Network Solutions, Web.com

.Com Winners & Losers

How domain name registrars performed in the latest official report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2018. Here’s how registrars did in terms of new .com registrations. 1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 868,031 (920,365 in August) 2. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 174,114 (200,563) 3. […]

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Domain Registrars, GOOG, NameSilo, NASDAQ:EIGI, NASDAQ:TCX, NYSE:GDDY, Web.com

.Com Winners: Some shakeup in the top 10

Top 10 registrars juggle places in latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar report covers August 2018. Note that HiChina is now listed as Alibaba in the official reports, so I’ve changed the name on this report. Here’s how registrars did in […]

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Domain Registrars, eigi, gddy, googl, google registrar, tcx, Web.com

Web.com acquires Tucows’ half of NameJet

Deal is a sign of the times in the expired domain business. Web.com is now the sole owner of domain name auction site NameJet after acquiring Tucows’ (NASDAQ: TCX) interest in the business. NameJet was created as a partnership between Enom and Network Solutions (now part of Web.com) in 2007 at a time when SnapNames […]

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Expired Domains, topstory, Tucows, Web.com

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. […]

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Domain Registrars, endurance international group, hichina, Namecheap, Tucows, Web.com Domain Registrars, Network Solutions, Web.com, Wix, wix.com

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. […]

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Domain theft, godaddy auctions, Namecheap, Web.com

All About .Me – DNW Podcast #191

Learn about the origins of the .Me domain name. You’ve surely seen .me domain names and might even own some in your domain name portfolio. Today you’re going to learn about how the .me domain name came to be and why it has been successful when we talk to Natasa Djukanovic, the CMO of the […]

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