Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name registrations, a drop of 1.8 million over the quarter. The domain base is down 2.2% […]

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Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter (pdf) to the National […]

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Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered over 100,000 fewer .com domains this March than last March. It has 1.2 million fewer .com […]

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Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place between May 2023 and April 2024. Notably, this period began shortly after Freenom, a phisher’s favorite because of its free country […]

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A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don’t want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sales from last month that have subsequently been developed, […]

Post link: 13 end user domain name sales up to $28,333

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