ICANN Compliance is taking on one of the world’s largest technology companies over claims that a registrar it owns turns a blind eye to DNS abuse and phishing. The Org has published a breach of contract notice against a Singapore registrar called Aceville Pte Ltd, which does business as DNSPod and is owned by and […]
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Investor still hasn’t been paid back. A domain name investor has sued Rob Monster, the old Epik entity, and Masterbucks LLC, alleging the parties owe him over $1 million. Luigi Marruso filed the lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington last week. He alleges that the parties ran an escrow […]
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Squarespace looks set to be acquired by private equity firm Permira in a sweetened cash deal valuing the registrar at about $7.2 billion. The new $46.50 per share offer is an improvement over Permira’s initial May offer of $44 and represents a 36.4% premium over Squarespace’s share price the day before the takeover way announced. […]
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A collection of six registrars in the XZ.com stable are back on the ICANN naughty step, facing more Compliance action just a couple of years after a sister company was suspended over UDRP failures. ICANN has published breach notices against DotMedia and five other registrars under common ownership, claiming that they are failing to send […]
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A registrar in Uzbekistan has become the first in the country to receive its official ICANN accreditation, according to the latest records. Tashkent-based Suvan.net, which does business as @host.uz (ahost.uz), currently specializes in the local .uz ccTLD, where it appears to be the leading registrar by some margin. The company already sells gTLD domains too, […]
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GoDaddy begins sharing data about new domain registrations. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has a new feature that shares which keywords are being registered most often in new domain names. The company already publishes which keywords are most common in Aftermarket domains, but this data is always a few months behind. The new data is extremely current. […]
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Unstoppable Domains has become the second blockchain alt-root naming service to get its ICANN accreditation. The company said today it intends to carry the “the vast majority of generic top-level domains”. It had already been selling .com names, alongside its suite of blockchain extensions, as a reseller. It also said it intends to sell ccTLD […]
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Scandal-rocked registrar Epik promised to turn over a new leaf when it got acquired last year, and now the guy in charge of the domains business — a familiar face to many– has broken cover and talked to DI about the company’s recent woes and turnaround plans. That guy is director of domains Christopher Ambler, […]
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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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Attackers are hijacking domains to steal crypto assets. Many web3 companies are reporting that their domains registered at Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) have been hijacked. Earlier today, Unstoppable Domains wrote on X that it is a victim. It is concerned that people are spoofing the company in email and might create a fake website to try […]
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Company alleges that GoDaddy is unfairly blocking it from automating customers’ DNS change requests. A company that helps domain owners update DNS records has filed an antitrust lawsuit against GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. If a customer needs to update their domain’s DNS records to work […]
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A company heavily involved in promoting blockchain-based domain name alternatives has received its ICANN registrar accreditation, allowing it to sell real domains as well. Switzerland-based Freename’s London subsidiary seems to have obtained the accreditation in the last week or so. Accreditation means it gets the right to sell gTLD domains from any registry that it […]
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Crawford takes CEO position after private equity-led buyout. Former CentralNic (now Team Internet Group) CEO Ben Crawford has returned to the domain name industry as CEO of corporate domain registrar Com Laude. Crawford helped build Team Internet Group from a tiny company to $700 million in annual revenue before leaving the company at the end […]
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PorkBun has announced its passed the two million domains under management milestone, having added a net million names in two years. The nine-year-old company is not especially .com-heavy, according to registry transaction reports, with about 611,000 .coms in its care. It also does a pretty brisk trade in niche gTLDs such as .lat, where it’s […]
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If you can’t buy ’em, join ’em? Ben Crawford, who was CEO of Team Internet back when it was CentralNic, has returned to the industry after a couple years away as a consultant/director to become the new CEO of corporate registrar Com Laude, a company he said he once tried to buy. Crawford said he […]
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That’s a lot of oinking. Domain name registrar Porkbun has hit two million domains under management, the registrar announced today. I like Porkbun has a registrar. When I reflect on why, I think it comes down to two things. First, its pricing is consistent and fair. The registrar usually adds about a dollar plus credit […]
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Chinese registrar Alibaba is no longer at risk of losing one of its ICANN accreditations, according to a notice on the Org’s web site. Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce, one of Alibaba’s four registrars, failed to respond to abuse reports and missed ICANN payments, according to its March breach notice. But the company has now provided ICANN […]
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GoDaddy founder and former CEO Bob Parsons has published his rags-to-riches autobiography, Fire in the Hole!
Subtitled The Untold Story of My Traumatic Life and Explosive Success, the book is co-written with jobbing celebrity biographer Laura Morton, who’s previously worked with GoDaddy-sponsored racing driver Danica Patrick.
It promises to detail “the exploits of his youth, his hellish days at the mercy of Catholic school nuns, his harrowing tour of combat duty in Vietnam as a US Marine, his pioneering contributions to the software and internet industries, and his latest ventures in power sports, golf, real estate, and marketing.”
“This is a story of how I started with absolutely nothing and made over $3 billion,” Parsons said in a press release.
Published yesterday by Forefront Books, it’s already ranked #1 in Golf Biographies on Amazon.
I’m going to wait for the paperback, so I can’t speak to its contents, but cover quotes reveal that Jada Pinkett-Smith, Rob Lowe and Nick Jonas all enjoyed it.
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GoDaddy last night reported domains revenue ahead of forecasts after it raised its prices and sold more higher-priced domains on the aftermarket.
The company’s Core Platform segment, which includes domains and hosting, reported first-quarter revenue up 4% compared to a year ago at $725 million, with domains revenue driving growth, up 7% percent to $532 million.
Domains under management was 84.6 million at the end of March 31.
“Our growth was driven by strong demand for domains in the primary and secondary market, increased pricing in the primary market and a higher average transaction value in the secondary market,” CFO Mark McCaffrey said in prepared remarks.
Aftermarket revenue was up 12% to an unspecified amount.
Including the company’s other revenue streams, GoDaddy reported net income of $401.5 million on revenue up 7% at $1.1 billion.
Verisign, the .com registry, last week reported stagnating .com growth that it blamed in part on US registrars raising their retail prices, leading to lower first-year sales and renewals.
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