See here the most abused top-level domains at Botnets, Q3 2021. No changes at the top of the chart In Q3, .com and .xyz continued to stay at the top of our ranking. The situation deteriorated for these two TLDs, particularly .com, which experienced a 90% increase. We hope that …
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Dan.com and MediaOptions announced a new partnership. The partnership is intended to combine Dan.com’s domain marketplace together with MediaOptions’ enterprise-level domain brokerage services in order to boost sales for participating portfolio owners. “Our partnership provides Dan.com users with greater returns while democratizing access to MediaOptions brokerage, said Reza Sardeha, CEO …
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DAN offered a sneak peak into the upcoming domain name registrar services that are expected in 2021. “The first step in our journey to offer registrar services is to create one central place for you to manage, monetize & sell your domains. And that’s going to go live in October …
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Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 20th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the fair value of such …
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Konstantinos Zournas October 5, 2021 Domain Name News, New gTLDs This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better …
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The precise terms and conditions for implementing Afnic’s proposals for the management and development of .fr are currently being drafted as part of a new agreement that will take effect on July 1, 2022 for a period of 5 years. Afnic is the Internet registry for .fr (France), .re (Ile …
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Konstantinos Zournas September 1, 2021 Domain Name News, New gTLDs Radix reported its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2021. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st January 2020 …
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Konstantinos Zournas September 2, 2021 Domain Name News DomainsBot did some research on “Domain search behavior in relationship to the availability of .com“. Emiliano Pasqualetti, CEO and Chief Data Scientist and Daniel Ruzzini Mejia, CO-Founder and CSO analyzed anonymized data from the …
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VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to the first quarter of 2021. Domain name registrations have decreased by 2.8 million, or …
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The result of 35 years of technical excellence, .fr shines today for the trust it inspires, in addition to being a pioneer in digital solidarity and in the digital transformation of French businesses.Today, Afnic is celebrating the 35th anniversary of .fr. With 3.82 million .fr domain names registered in September …
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Konstantinos Zournas September 9, 2021 Domain Name News This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you …
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I got an inquiry yesterday for one of my .com domain names. I asked the buyer to submit at a 5-figure offer and then I received a $3,500 USD offer. When I politely declined the offer the buyer said: “If you change your mind and want to do something closer …
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DAN announced today many new features including the ability to set a unique and customized for sale page per domain and improvements to the SSL generation system. DAN shares below a brief description of the top items deployed by its team: 1: Set a unique & customized domain for sale …
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Yes, it appears that the registrar Epik was hacked by a group called Anonymous. Yes, there was a website at epikfail.win with the info you can see below. (Website is now down.) Yes, there are a couple of torrents with all the hacked data and thousands of people downloading them. …
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According to what I have read and seen the Epik data leak includes credit card numbers, registered names, whois data, whois privacy data, usernames, emails, passwords, failed password attempts, auth codes, etc. Pretty much EVERYTHING a registrar stores on its servers. More on this coming soon… There is also a …
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DAN.com together with NamesCon announced 5 new awards given to five domain community members for their great achievements and community-driven spirit. The winners are: The award for the most data-driven domainer of the year 2021 goes to Nikhil Jain. The award for the most community-driven domainer of the year 2021 …
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