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Revenue tops $1 billion in Q2. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported second quarter earnings after the market closed today. The company grossed just over a billion dollars in revenue, taking in $1.02 billion for the quarter. That’s up 9% compared to the same quarter a year ago. Exchange rates shave a …

Namecheap’s CEO appears to throw weight behind .wallet and defending the Handshake blockchain domain system. For a day, it appeared that blockchain domain company Unstoppable Domains picked the right fight to argue its first-to-offer-a-blockchain-TLD-gets-exclusive-rights argument. The company sued Gateway.io, a registry/registrar technology provider for Handshake domains, after Gateway.io started offering …

It’s the second largest public domain sale of all time. NFTs.com has sold for a staggering $15 million, making it the second largest domain sale ever publicly reported. Domainer.com and GoDaddy brokered the deal for an undisclosed buyer. Escrow.com provided escrow services and confirmed the deal in a press release. …

Company acquires domain name that’s short for Latinos. Domain name registry XYZ has acquired the .lat top level domain name from ECOM-LAC Federaciòn de Latinoamèrica y el Caribe para Internet y el Comercio Electrònico (Latin America and Caribbean Federation of Internet and Electronic Commerce.) It’s XYZ’s 34th top level domain …

A blockchain company, a pool seller, and a swimsuit business bought domain names. Sedo sold a couple of nice domains this past week for which I can’t determine the buyer yet: afloat.com sold for $75,000 and bu.lu sold for EUR 33,000. The latter appears to be under development. Here’s a …

One panelist thinks this was RDNH; another thought the domain should be transferred. It’s always interesting when there’s a dissenting opinion in a UDRP. These disputes are designed to handle clear-cut cases of cybersquatting, so you’d think all three panelists would agree on the outcome. Of course, there is a …

A company that helps Handshake domain owners sell second level domains has suspended its services. Register domains on the new internet. Or maybe not. If Unstoppable Domains was looking for an easy test case for protecting its choice of top level domain names, it might have found it. Just days …

The team behind .Asia gets ready to launch .kids. This week I chat with Edmon Chung. Edmon is the CEO of .Asia and a member of the ICANN Board of Directors. He’s busy getting ready for the launch of .kids. On today’s show, I ask Edmon why it has taken …

Company asks Court of Appeals for another opinion. Pocketbook International, a maker of e-readers, is appealing a loss in its lawsuit to get pocketbook.com. Ebook reader company Pocketbook International is appealing its loss in a lawsuit over pocketbook.com. The move comes immediately after the defendant in the case filed a …

Company argues first to offer second level blockchain domains in a TLD should get exclusive rights to it. After filing a lawsuit against Gateway.io over the Handshake .wallet domain two weeks ago, Unstoppable Domains has asked the court for a preliminary injunction (pdf) to stop the sale of the competing …

Renewing early could lead to quick domain sales. Yesterday, I wrote about why I renew my domains in batches, well before they need to be renewed. I teased that there’s a hidden benefit to renewing your domains early. Here it is: you might get some immediate sales when you renew …

Company cites factors for falling domain base. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, lowered its 2022 guidance with its earnings release yesterday. The company now expects the base of .com and .net domains to grow just 0.5% to 1.5% this year, down from guidance of …

Price increases mask falling domain base. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released Q2 2022 earnings after the markets closed this afternoon. As I previewed earlier this week, the base of registered .com and .net domain names fell this quarter. It dropped 0.35 million domains to 174.3 million and has fallen further since …

Here’s my (imperfect) process. One day last week, I sat down with a mission: look through my domains expiring in the next 6-8 months and decide which ones to renew. I ended up spending $8,692.71 renewing 937 domains. I also decided to drop about 70 of the domains expiring during …

Company raises funds that could be used to fight legal battles and bid on the next round of new top level domains at ICANN. Unstoppable Domains has raised a $65 million series A funding at a $1 billion valuation, the company announced today. The company provides blockchain-based domain names ending …

The wholesale cost will increase 7% on September 1. Now would be a good time to renew .com domains in your portfolio that you want to keep. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) will increase the wholesale price for .com domain names from $8.39 to $8.97 on September 1, 2022. With ICANN’s 18-cent …