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Could WWE wrestler and box office superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson be gearing up for a political run? According to a post at SFStandard.com two domain names were registered on January 27 indicating such a possibility. The domain names are under privacy so it’s not known if Johnson registered them …

CentralNic Group PLC (LON: CNIC) posted earnings on Monday, and 2022 was a very good year. With gross revenue up 77% compared to 2021. The stock closed up on Monday. Last Price145.50 Day Change2.50|1.75% CentralNic Group PLC on Monday said it booked record revenue in 2022, owing to its “outstanding …

Check out the 100 oldest .com domain names! Posted on 30 January 2023 by NamePros Daily Today: Includ.com sold for $6,488 / The Appraisal of Legendary.gg / Evaluating PasadenaContractors.com / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Appraising Jaact.com – When …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced its trading update for the full year 2022. Trading Update The Company now expects to report record gross revenue of c.USD 728 million, and net revenue and Adjusted EBITDA1 of at least USD 177 million and USD 85 million respectively for the financial year 2022. These …

Business woman dropped BusinessWoman.com Posted by DomainGang on January 30, 2023, at 2:04 pm  A business woman from Sweden somehow lost one important asset: The domain name BusinessWoman.com. Wonna I de Jong appears to have held the domain BusinessWoman.com since March 2009, acquiring it from Mike Mann‘s Domain Asset Holdings …

CEO addresses layoffs and technical issues. I’ve heard more chatter about Epik over the past couple of weeks, and I reached out to Epik CEO Brian Royce for an update. First, I noticed a couple of Epik employees/contractors posting that they’d left the company. Commenting on the layoffs, Royce wrote …

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on January 29, 2023. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a …

The founder of a recently launched name-spinner web site says the AI-based tool has already been used a million times in a month, and I can see why. The site, SmartyNames.com, is reportedly based on the same GPT-3 natural language processing software as the incredibly popular ChatGPT chatbot. Users simply …

It seems ICANN can multi-task, after all. Its board of directors has yet to formally approve the next application round, but staff have started looking for a company to build the application system, regardless. Org has published an RFI (pdf) for potential developers of a “gTLD Application Lifecycle System” that …

Company reports strong growth thanks to advertising business. Today, domain name and online advertising rollup CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) provided its first estimate of revenue and earnings for last year. The company expects to report gross revenue of $728 million, up 77% from last year. Organic growth was approximately 60% when …

https://traffic.libsyn.com/domainnamewire/DNW422.mp3Where are last year’s big domain sales now? On today’s show, DNJournal publisher Ron Jackson discuss last year’s big sales. Who bought them? How are they being use? Ron also shares some surprising statistics from last year and thoughts about 2023. Also: Charles Schwab, RDNH down under, ICA, 2023 forecast …

When you form a company, you—the company’s principal—better register the domain names and brands associated with it. A Finnish company outsourced the domains OlefyTech.com, Olefy.tech, and other social media registrations to an outside party that was commissioned to come onboard the company’s spinoff brand; once the relationship turned sour, they …

Fiat Chrysler is to kill off five of its six dot-brand gTLDs, which it has never used. The company has told ICANN it no longer wishes to operate .abarth, .alfaromeo, .fiat, .maserati, and .lancia, four of its car brands. Weirdly, .ferrari, which has also never been used, is not subject …

CentralNic grew faster than analysts’ expectations last year, the company said today. The company expects to report EBITDA of “at least” $177 million, up 33%, on revenue up 77% at about $728 million, for 2022. Factoring out acquisitions and currency fluctuations, organic growth is expected to be around 60%. The …

Wishing well to the Domain King & his latest acquisition Posted by DomainGang on January 30, 2023, at 8:59 am  The Domain King The Domain King, Rick Schwartz, has been addressing some health issues in recent weeks, taking time off his public online activities, such as Twitter. We all go …

Sedo LLLL .com auction results topped by TORD.com Posted by DomainGang on January 30, 2023, at 8:39 am  Sedo held a week-long auction of four letter (LLLL) .com domain names, via its GreatDomains platform. The auction involved 290 domain names with a low reserve of 99 (dollars/Euro/British pounds.) The results …