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Donuts published their March domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. Group and Global seems to be constantly in the top 20 each month. In the month of March 2022, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 15% shorter and included hyphens 33% less frequently than .com domain […]
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A couple of years ago, my longtime accountant retired and my wife and I hired a new accountant. One of the things she asked me was to get a full list of my domain name inventory with acquisition costs and date of acquisition. I had never tracked my inventory on a master inventory list before, […]
Following its $218 million acquisition of the Neustar registry business, GoDaddy has been making a push into the registry operations business. GoDaddy Registry works with brands to manage their .brand extension, and the company also works with countries on their ccTLD registry operations, including the registries for .US, .CO, and .IN.
Last night, GoDaddy announced its signed a contract with the government of Tuvalu to manage the .TV ccTLD extension. The .TV registry had… Read the rest “GoDaddy Signs Contract to Operate .TV Extension”
Yesterday morning, Dave Evanson, Senior Broker at Sedo, reported the sale of GCP.com for $ 550,000. The domain name was sold via Sedo:
At the present time, GCP.com is registered to Sedo’s transfer service email address, so the buyer is not yet known. If I had to take a guess about who bought the domain name, I would be surprised if it wasn’t Google acquiring it for its Google Cloud Platform. There are a few other companies that use the GCP initials for their brand, but Google is the largest… Read the rest “GCP.com Sold for $550,000 via Sedo”
A year and a half ago, Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of a company called Tiny, shared some thoughts about how he felt when someone referred to his company as “Tiny Capital,” because the company’s slightly off-brand domain name was TinyCapital.com:
After seeing the tweet in 2020, I followed up by asking Andrew how much his company would pay for Tiny.com if it were to ever become available to purchase, but he did not reply to my tweet. This morning, Andrew announced that his company… Read the rest “Tiny Upgrades to Tiny.com”
Later on this Summer, John Berryhill and I will participate in the Pan-Mass Challenge ride to raise funds and awareness for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dana-Farber is one of the leading cancer organizations in the world, and we are happy and honored to be able to support its mission of providing exceptional cancer treatment and completing advanced cancer research. This will be my ninth PMC ride and John’s fourth PMC ride.
During this year’s PMC, John and I will ride… Read the rest “2022 Pan-Mass Challenge”
A National Arbitration Forum panel presided over a UDRP that was filed against the CyberGuard.com domain name. CyberGuard.com is owned by McAfee, the global computer security company. For whatever reason, the CyberGuard.com domain name does not resolve to a functioning website.
Not surprisingly, the sole UDRP panelist, Terry F. Peppard, ruled in favor of McAfee even though the company did not respond to the UDRP. While the decision was on point, I think the panelist should… Read the rest “Panels Should Consider RDNH Even if Not Requested”