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Afternic makes improvements to Request Price lander
A lander that finally resolves to the parent brand. In the domain aftermarket, that counts as progress.
Domain Name Wire
Read the full storySedo sales reports taking a summer break
Even the machinery of domain sales takes a vacation.
TheDomains.com
Internet tops 400 million domain names
Four hundred million names on the wall, and most of them are just standing there.
Domain Name Wire
This year’s top domain sales
The domain aftermarket is a quiet ledger of human vanity, and the first half of 2026 has already tallied its favorites.
Domain Name Wire
Spending $40k on a Domain Name to Eliminate Friction
Forty thousand dollars for a domain name is, in the grand scheme of things, a rounding error on a venture's burn rate.
Top sale zipchat
DomainInvesting.com
Verisign DNIB Q2 2026 Com and Net combined for a 179.1m regs
A quiet quarter, a loud number.
TheDomains.com
Global Domain Name Registrations Soar Past the 400 Million Mark According to New Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief
Four hundred million domains sounds like a milestone. It is, in the same way a parking lot is full.
Domain Name Journal
Team Internet reports first half results, no news on acquisition
Team Internet's first half reads like a company buying time while the market decides whether to keep the lights on.
Domain Name Wire
UDRP decisions up 12% year over year
The dispute resolution machinery is humming again, and the queue is getting longer.
Domain Name Wire
Verisign analysis: record quarter, .web match plan, and more
Verisign's quarterly glow obscures the more interesting story: a registry quietly positioning itself for a contested .web auction it may not need to win on price.
Domain Name Wire
Verisign finally gets .web, plans to launch domain this year
A decade is a long time to wait for a string of characters.
Domain Name Wire
Verisign: .Web Domain Names Coming This Year
A decade-long wait for .web is finally ending, and the price tag tells you exactly who the auction was really for.
DomainInvesting.com