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Revenue surges at domain registrar as domains under management continue to grow. NameSilo (CSE: URL) (PINKSHEETS: URLOF) has released its earnings for Q1. For the quarter, the company grossed CAD $15.9 million, up from CAD $12.8 million in the same quarter of 2024. That’s a solid 24% year-over-year growth. It was the 10th consecutive quarter […]
Post link: NameSilo reports 24% revenue growth in Q1
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21 projects approved for funding of up to $500,000. ICANN has released a list of projects funded in the first cohort of its inaugural grant program. The program uses funds collected from “auctions of last resort” from the last round of top level domain names. Overall, the group is contributing just over $9 million to […]
Post link: ICANN grants $9M, including $500k for UDRP defense
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Patent describes automated crawler and checkout simulator to spot fraud in newly-registered domains. PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has filed a patent application describing a method to proactively detect scam websites by automatically crawling newly registered domains and simulating checkout processes. U.S. patent application 18/521,909 (pdf), titled Automated Domain Crawler and Checkout Simulator for Proactive and Real-time […]
Post link: PayPal wants patent for system that scans newly-registered domains
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An AI-tax preparation tool, a corporate events company, and a workplace violence prevention business bought domain names. Every week, I publish an end user domain sales report. This report reveals which end users bought domain names at Sedo during the past week. With most Whois records now obscured by privacy services, the most common way […]
Post link: End user rewind: more domain name sales
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Name.com offers significant discount on .com domains for one week. Do you have a list of .com domains you want to hand-register? You might want to wait a few more days. Domain Name Wire readers know that I rarely write about sales on domain registrations, but some are too good not to cover. Name.com is […]
Post link: Build your list: registrar offers $4.99 .com registrations
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