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Worldwide Domain Name Registrations Nearing the 400 Million Mark After a Healthy 1st Quarter Detailed in Latest Verisign Industry Brief
Four hundred million names is a ledger, not a headline.
Domain Name Journal
Read the full story“Do you have an extra $9M laying around?”
Liking a domain name is cheap. Owning one is a different market.
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TheDomains.com
Julia Child’s foundation takes down recipe website
The Julia Child Foundation just seized a recipe site without a single court filing—via the cheap, fast machinery of UDRP.
Domain Name Wire
From naming to domaining – DNW Podcast #585
A naming man looks at domains and sees what most investors miss: the reason a name exists.
Domain Name Wire
.Com domain registrar rankings – GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace and more
The .com portfolio is a scoreboard, and ICANN just posted the quarterly box scores.
Domain Name Wire
What is Spirit.com Worth?
A company dies, and its domain becomes a different asset class overnight.
DomainInvesting.com
Markmonitor Launches DomainWatch
Markmonitor’s new DomainWatch turns the job of watching thousands of domains into an AI-driven surveillance product.
TheDomains.com
ICANN opens application period for new top level domains
Fourteen years after the last round, the next gTLD land rush finally has a date.
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy reports earnings, slower big aftermarket transactions
GoDaddy's subscription machine is humming; its aftermarket is waiting on the next big deal.
Domain Name Wire
Domain stuffing: when free domain promos cross the line
A free domain nobody asked for is not a perk; it is a liability waiting for an invoice.
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy Q1 2026 Earnings Report
GoDaddy beat the street, and the quiet signal is that domain infrastructure still prints money.
TheDomains.com
New end user domain sales: mergers create domain acquisitions
Mergers don't just change letterheads; they change domain names, and that keeps the aftermarket fed.
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Domain Name Wire