Despite the description, you don’t have control over how your listings migrate. I previously wrote about how I was opting out of the Dan.com-to-Afternic migration. I stopped using Dan.com a while ago and list everything at Afternic, so I didn’t think it made sense to migrate. But I went ahead and downloaded my data from […]

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Users have four weeks to decide what to do with their Dan.com account. Dan.com users can now migrate their accounts to Afternic as part of Dan’s sunsetting. After logging in, users will see “Migration Center” on the left panel in their dashboard. Clicking on this brings up a dashboard with three options: self-migrate now, auto-migrate […]

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Diaz joins company that aims to rid the DNS of abuse. Paul Diaz has joined CleanDNS as vice president of engagement. CleanDNS helps registries and registrars eliminate domain registrations that are involved in abuse. For example, it recently worked with Sav.com to suspend 60,000 domains that were found to be repeatedly engaging in phishing, spam, […]

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Afternic sellers will pay an additional 5% commission unless they opt out of new program. Domain investors who sell domains through Afternic will start paying higher commissions this Wednesday unless they opt out of a new program. Afternic Boost officially kicks into gear on September 4. At that time, sales commissions will increase from 15% […]

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Usage of ICANN’s experimental Registration Data Request Service may have hit what might in future pass for normal levels, with not a massive amount of fluctuation across several key statistics for the last few months. But ICANN’s latest monthly stats report, published late last week, shows that July was the worst month so far in […]

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Atom.com will pay domain investors if a domain listed on Atom Premium sells on Afternic. Afternic’s decision last year to move to a two-tier commission model has been a challenge for competing marketplaces. The two-tier system charges an additional 10% commission when sellers park their domains on other platforms. This added cost has pushed many […]

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A domain hosting a fun little video game for Lidl staff was the highlight dot-brand domain registration in July. There were 210 registrations in dot-brands in July 2024, spread across 34 individual TLDs. As usual, the largest registrant was German financial services firm Deutsche Vermögensberatung, which gives .dvag domains to its agents, with 90 new […]

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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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Paying customers can now import leads to use Efty Pay. Domain name sales platform Efty has launched the first iteration of Efty Pay for sellers. For the initial launch, Efty customers with an active subscription can import leads to use Efty Pay to complete the transaction. Sellers will need to complete a verification process, and […]

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Brokers can earn a 20% commission by selling domains on Atom. Atom has launched its updated Cloud Broker program, which allows people to earn commissions for selling domains listed on the domain marketplace. Brokers can obtain unique links for domains listed on Atom and earn 20% of the commission if someone clicks through the link […]

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A community-run URL “blacklist” project has claimed credit for the complaints that led to .TOP Registry getting hit by an ICANN Compliance action earlier this week. .TOP was told on Tuesday that it has a month to sort of its abuse-handing procedures or risk losing the .top gTLD, which has over three million domains. ICANN […]

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Lease-to-own option now available on GoDaddy-branded lander. Afternic has launched a new landing page option that replaces the Dan.com lander while adding additional features. Called the Custom Lander, it allows domain sellers to offer lease-to-own transactions on a GoDaddy-branded lander (and URL) for the first time. It looks very similar to the old Dan.com lander […]

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ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service saw a small improvement in usage and response times in June, but it did lose a registrar, according to statistics published today. There were 170 requests for private Whois data in the month, up a little from May’s historic low of 153, and 20.88% were approved, compared to 20.29% in […]

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The seasonally strong first quarter saw growth return to the domain industry, despite .com’s continuing woes, according to the latest edition of Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief. There were 362.4 million domain registrations across all TLDs at the end of March, up by 2.5 million names or 0.7% from the start of the year, according […]

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Early bird deal runs through the end of this month. Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has opened ticket sales and hotel reservations for its annual member meeting in January. Next year’s event will return to Resorts World in Las Vegas, January 26-28, 2025. Early bird tickets are available until the end of July for $399. Hotel […]

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Usage of ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service, which lets people submit Whois queries to registrars, hit a new low in May, six months after its launch. RDRS was used to submit 156 requests for private Whois data in the period, the lowest number to date. In December, there were 173 requests; the peak was 290 […]

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Estibot launched a new tool that competes with dotDB. When people hear the name Estibot, many think only of automated domain appraisals. But as I’ve posted before, the company offers a lot more tools for domain investors. Earlier today, domain investor Mike Cyger posted a video showing Estibot’s new Registered Domain Search Tool, which is […]

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Filter and bulk search improvements are rolling out to domain sellers. Afternic announced that it is rolling out UX/UI improvements starting today. The improvements will initially apply to a small subset of accounts and roll out to more accounts over time. Some of the improvements are rather incremental, but a couple caught my eye. First, […]

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AtomPay gives domain sellers an affordable platform for handling domain sales payments and transfers. Domain name sales platform Atom has launched the AtomPay service that it announced earlier this month. AtomPay allows domain sellers to use the Atom payment and transfer platform to handle domain transactions that originated outside of Atom. Sellers create a custom […]

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