VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the third quarter of 2020. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Verisign) reported revenue of $318 million for the third quarter of 2020, up 3.1 percent from the same quarter in 2019. Verisign reported net income of $171 million and diluted earnings per share (diluted EPS) of $1.49 …...

Do people deserve a second chance? Of course they do. But some people had many opportunities over the past 5 years to make things right or AT LEAST they had the opportunity not being an asshole to the people they owe money to. Anyone that says "I had a good experience with him… blah blah … The post Do people deserve a second chance? app...

This was a slow reporting month for Mike Mann so I have included his domain appraisals from his live videos. Mike Mann reported selling 2 domain names in September for a total of $27,388. Reported prices started at $7,500 and went up to $19,888. Mike Mann sold 2 .com domains. The average reported domain sales … The post Mike Mann sells 2 doma...

ICANN, a useless organization that does pretty much nothing all year around, managed to "only" spend $126 million in the financial year ending 30 June 2020. Almost all of its policy development is done by volunteers while in the past year ICANN decided on its own that it is not a price regulator so it … The post Useless organization spends $1...

Donuts announced 17 more New gTLDs were licensed to sell in China. Donuts now has 42 New gTLDs licensed in China. The following Donuts New gTLDs were selected for licensing in collaboration with strategic registrar partners in China and were approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on August 21, 2020: .BAND … The...

GoDaddy released today its first domain name sales report in years! GoDaddy stopped reporting domain name sales when it went public. (NYSE: GDDY) You can see below the top 20 public domain sales for June 2020. The list is inclusive of all channels (GoDaddy, Afternic, Uniregistry) and the price listed is the final price paid … The post GoDaddy...

NamesCon will soon announce 3 domain name events for 2021: "While the pandemic is keeping so many factors in flux, we're confident that we can deliver top-notch experiences for the domain industry while keeping everyone safe. The domaining world doesn't sit still, so neither do we!" NamesCon Online 2021: January 27th-29th While January is normally ...

Beware of the "Comparable domains sold" shown at GoDaddy domain name appraisals. It seems some of these domain sales are older than 2006. Maybe some are even a lot older than 2006! When I get an inquiry for one of my domains I usually check the GoDaddy domain name appraisals. I do it not to … The post Beware of "Comparable domains sold" at Go...

The European Commission is launching the process to select the next Registry for the .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD), one of the largest "country" TLDs worldwide. The subject of this call is to select the Registry of the .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD), which will be entrusted with the organisation, administration and management of the .eu TLD, … The p...

Efty.com launched its new domain name marketplace today. Efty created a consolidated marketplace, offering a place where buyers can search for, negotiate and purchase domains from all Efty users combined. The Efty.com marketplace is a extra service to its users at no additional costs and wont replace the features that you know such as customizable ...

Sahil Gupta gets his Reverse Domain Name Hijacking poster courtesy of Rick Schwartz! HallofShame.com reveals new Reverse Domain Name Hijacking poster! New poster boy for 2020: Sahil Gupta. You can read the whole story of Sahil Gupta, wanna be thief of Spase.com that was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, here. The post Sahil Gupta gets ...

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced the Group's unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2020. Commenting on the results, Toby Hall, CEO of MMX, said: "As a Group our core business is profitable, cash generative, and debt-free, with the majority of our revenue being recurring. Our ongoing focus … The po...

Sahil Gupta, wanna be thief of the domain name Spase.com, falsely reported me on Twitter yesterday. He blocked my account for 12 hours. This is Sahil Gupta's story of attempting to steal a domain name AND repeatedly being a liar. Sahil Gupta blatantly lied once again, this time on Twitter, just like how he did … The post Sahil Gupta, wanna be...

Mike Mann has released 4 new videos on YouTube with guests like Braden Pollock, Ari Goldberger and Mike Bahlitzanakis. These are videos #5, #6, #7 and #8 from Mike Mann's new live series that is out every Wednesday on YouTube and Facebook. Here is video #5 with Mike Mann, Ted Rose and Shaun Randolph: Here … The post Mike Mann released 4 video...

Greece just banned 263 domain names to combat online piracy. The Hellenic Copyright Ornanization (OPI) made the decision to ban these domains after a request of the Society for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (EPOE). EPOE is a Greek anti-piracy group representing the interests of major Greek copyright holders. The domain name blocking did not &...

.Blog will soon release 47,000 3-character "premium" domain names. All 3-character .blog domains were reserved when .blog launched almost 4 years ago. That was simply a very bad move. The hype has since sailed and these domains will not get the same interest they would have at the time of the launch. These 47,000 domain … The post .Blog will ...

Mike Mann reported selling 9 domain names in August for a total of $210,703. Reported prices started at $15,500 and went up to $33,900. Mike Mann sold 9 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $23,411. If you want to further understand Mike Manns pricing and sell-through rates read here:A few important details … The post Mik...

What the hell are you doing people? These wholesale prices for .io domains are simply ridiculous! You are paying $2k-$5k for bad one-word domains in .io? By bad domains I mean domains that don't go well with .io AND/OR are unlikely to be chosen by startups as brand names. I noticed that the domain name … The post These wholesale prices for .i...

The ICA worked with many domain name attorneys to develop an annotated domain name purchase agreement. "Our goal is to educate domain investors and to benefit the industry as a whole by providing this sample agreement. It is robust and incorporates decades of experience in buying and selling domain names. It may be particularly helpful … The ...

Matt Wegrzyn, Founder & CEO of Bodis, announced that Bodis has suspended the partnership with one of their zeroclick ad partners. Here is the complete announcement: "Demonstrating our commitment to improving the quality of advertising in the domain industry and effective immediately, today, we have suspended the partnership with 6 ZC (zeroclick...

DAN and BODIS are partnering on a hybrid monetization-sales landing page. This partnership will allow domain owners to maximize both their sales and ad revenues on their domain names. All of this will take place on a sale-monetization landing page hybrid that fully supports SSL. While this service is still in testing with DAN, BODIS … The pos...

A former Pirate Bay domain name was sold for $50,000 in an auction that ended today. The auction was held at DropCatch.com that catches and auctions dropped domain names after they expire. The domain name PirateBay.org was sold for $50,000 and is one of the highest .org sales in 2020. It is quite certain that … The post Pirate Bay domain name...

NamesCon (owned by GoDaddy) quietly removed Neha Gupta from the NamesCon Online "Women in Domaining" session she was originally scheduled to speak at. It happened on Thursday or Friday. I am not sure as I had given up on GoDaddy until someone made a comment that she had been removed from the speakers list of … The post Updates on Neha Gupta a...

I will not be attending NamesCon online until Neha Gupta, Namaxis Pvt. Ltd., is removed from the speakers list or she says she is sorry for the front running she did. I didn't know that NamesCon accepts front runners and scammers as speakers. Good to know. Also I learned that "York" and "Delhi" are often … The post I will not be attending Nam...

Radix registry shared its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2020. The report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st January 2020 till 30th June 2020. Premium registrations in the first half of 2020 were 97% higher than in the first half of 2019 … The post Radix had $1.96M in rev...

CentralNic Group Plc (AIM: CNIC) announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2020. Both revenue and Adjusted EBITDA have increased year-on-year, driven by a combination of acquisitions and underlying organic growth. Financial Summary: Revenue increased by 124% to USD 111.3m (H1 2019: USD 49.7m) Gross profit increased by 78% to ...

Mike Mann shared today (September 3, 2020) his year-to-date sales total. In the past few months Mike Mann dropped about 50,000 domains from his 350,000 (about 14%) and now has 300,000 domains in his portfolio. Mike Mann wrote an EPICcomment on my postabout him dropping 50,000 domains. The comment covers several different subjects including buying &...

Scammers are shopping around GoDaddy expired domains while they are in auction. Today's scammer uses the domain hugedomain.co.uk for his email address possibly to imply an association with Huge Domains. (that uses HugeDomains.com) I got an email from this English scammer that thinks I am his mate. He claimed falsely that is the domain broker …...

19 new domains were added in the past few days in the NamesCon auction but the auction list is still pretty week with only about 10 days left until the live auction. Some domains are very hard for me to see in the list. maxbet.ca? aaa.bond?? 12.icu??? Seriously? .ICU??? Really? I see a few domains … The post NamesCon auction adds another 19 n...

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020. Domain name registrations have grown by 15.3 million, or 4.3 percent, year...

19 new domains were added in the NamesCon auction but the auction list is still pretty week with only about 2 weeks left until the live auction. Some domains are really hard for me to see in the list. maxbet.ca? Seriously? I see a few domains in the auction were registered in 2019 and 2020 … The post 19 new domains added in the NamesCon aucti...

Efty'sDAN.COM integration is now live for all Efty users as announced. Doron Vermaat, Efty Co-Founder & Head of Product, said that the the first successful transaction that was processed through this partnership was the sale of Komodo.ai which sold for $3,995 and was purchased by a Japanese buyer via the NameRockstar.com marketplace (this is Do...

DNWE.com announced its integration with DAN.com! Here are all the details that DNWE shared today: We will begin accepting domains as low as $99+ rather than $299+. All transactions and transfers will be automated through our integration with DAN.com. The minimum commission fee of $50 is being eliminated! Buyers will NO LONGER be charged an … ...

Top Level Design, the .gay registry, has released its launch plan for the new domain name extension launch in September. Early Access Period (EAP) for .gay starts on September 8, 2020. General Availability (GA) is on September 16, 2020. Here is the complete .gay launch plan provided by Top Level Design: Premium Names Explained Not … The post ...

Mike Mann reported selling 13 domain names in July for a total of $292,534. Prices started at $5,300 and went up to $58,000. Mike Mann sold 12 .com domains and 1 .co domain. The average reported domain sales price was $22,503. Here is the domain name stats from July 1oth, 2020 that Mike Mann shared: … The post Mike Mann sells 13 domains for $...

Mike Mann had his second live video on YouTube. Mike Mann talks with Ben Katz. See here Mike Mann's 1st live stream on Youtube. You can watch the 2nd live video here: The post Mike Mann's 2nd live video (video) appeared first on OnlineDomain.com. Related Articles: Mike Mann: ".com is still king and always will be" (video) Mike Mann's 1st livestre...

In our effort to further understand its customers and maintain the .eu "competitive" edge, EURid has completed the first part of the .eu website categorisation. 200,000 domain names were crawled through and 81.67% were found to be connected to a web server. In addition, 88% of the active domain names had the potential for activation … The pos...

Google is running an experiment in Chrome version 86.Google is testing domain-only URLs in Chrome to help foil rampant phishing, social engineering, and scams. Chromes address bar is showingdomain names onlyinstead of full URLs. "On todays web, URLs remain the primary way users determine the identity and authenticity of a site, yet we know URLs ...

Mike Mann had his first livestream on YouTube. Livestream format: 1. Opening good words, plus news and current events 2. Domain info and live appraisal training 3. Guest, if applicable, with optional questions: your bio, family life history, work history, pitch whatever businesses or charities or religion, current events, covid issues, politics, ge...

Here is what is coming to Efty in the next few weeks: Efty.com marketplace Ever since the first Efty beta version sellers had been asking if Efty could help bring more exposure for their domains trough a consolidated marketplace. A place where buyers could search for and purchase domains from all Efty sellers combined. The … The post Coming s...