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Registering a single domain was more or less a manual process and one could even pay the original .com registrar, Network Solutions, by check. When people or companies would register a domain they had one thing in mind: to make full use of it. Read More.

Registering a single domain was more or less a manual process and one could even pay the original .com registrar, Network Solutions, by check. When people or companies would register a domain they had one thing in mind: to make full use of it. Read More.

Is time up for Freenom? After being sued by Facebook and losing its contracts to operate ccTLDs for at least two countries, now it also has ICANN Compliance to deal with. Its registrar arm, Netherlands-based OpenTLD, has been hit with a lengthy ICANN breach notice that alleges the company failed...

Is time up for Freenom? After being sued by Facebook and losing its contracts to operate ccTLDs for at least two countries, now it also has ICANN Compliance to deal with. Its registrar arm, Netherlands-based OpenTLD, has been hit with a lengthy ICANN breach notice that alleges the company failed...

A lawsuit filed by Meta has led to a significant decrease in phishing websites tied to the domain name registrar Freenom. Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs in a report on Friday said that Freenom, which provides free domain name registration services, was a favored resource for cybercriminals due...

A lawsuit filed by Meta has led to a significant decrease in phishing websites tied to the domain name registrar Freenom. Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs in a report on Friday said that Freenom, which provides free domain name registration services, was a favored resource for cybercriminals due...

Did you know that ccTLDs account for the majority of the European market share? According to data from CENTR, the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries, ccTLDs account for 58% of the European domain market, on average. That’s more than legacy TLDs such as...

Did you know that ccTLDs account for the majority of the European market share? According to data from CENTR, the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries, ccTLDs account for 58% of the European domain market, on average. That’s more than legacy TLDs such as...

The Brazilian two letter domain was acquired by Intis Telecom for the sum of $20,000 dollars. The seller is Brand Corporation, a domain investing & brand creation company in Brazil...Read More

The Brazilian two letter domain was acquired by Intis Telecom for the sum of $20,000 dollars. The seller is Brand Corporation, a domain investing & brand creation company in Brazil...Read More

In this week's Top Topics, we discuss the reported multi-million dollar sale of NFTs.com, which was disclosed this week via a press release. Elsewhere, a domainer shares a one-word .TV sale, and who exactly owns and controls ccTLDs? NFTs.com Acquired for $15 Million The big news in the domain...

In this week's Top Topics, we discuss the reported multi-million dollar sale of NFTs.com, which was disclosed this week via a press release. Elsewhere, a domainer shares a one-word .TV sale, and who exactly owns and controls ccTLDs? NFTs.com Acquired for $15 Million The big news in the domain...

So what does this have to do with .TV? .TV is the country code for Tuvalu, a country in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The average height of the islands is less than 2 meters, and climate change is impacting its habitability. While it doesn’t seem that there’s a very near-term threat to...

So what does this have to do with .TV? .TV is the country code for Tuvalu, a country in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The average height of the islands is less than 2 meters, and climate change is impacting its habitability. While it doesn’t seem that there’s a very near-term threat to...

We’re halfway through 2021, and it would be interesting to look at domain name registration trends. What top-level domains (TLDs) reign so far? To answer this question, we studied the domain registration counts for hundreds of TLDs from January 1, 2021 to June 9, 2021 using Whois Database...

We’re halfway through 2021, and it would be interesting to look at domain name registration trends. What top-level domains (TLDs) reign so far? To answer this question, we studied the domain registration counts for hundreds of TLDs from January 1, 2021 to June 9, 2021 using Whois Database...

Drop.xyz sold for $30,000. It is the highest publicly reported .xyz sale of 2021 according to Namebio https://namebio.com/drop.xyz I guess the seller is not @DNGear

Drop.xyz sold for $30,000. It is the highest publicly reported .xyz sale of 2021 according to Namebio https://namebio.com/drop.xyz I guess the seller is not @DNGear

I look at the history of sales and I am blown away! Is there some sort of marketing strategy or sense of pride behind the ccTLD? For an extension exclusive to its country, it is mind-boggling what .CA premium and keyword domain names fetch for prices. When you factor in the population and...

I look at the history of sales and I am blown away! Is there some sort of marketing strategy or sense of pride behind the ccTLD? For an extension exclusive to its country, it is mind-boggling what .CA premium and keyword domain names fetch for prices. When you factor in the population and...