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NameSilo reports 24% revenue growth in Q1
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 q...
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NameSilo reports 24% revenue growth in Q1
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 q...
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May 30, 2025, 3:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN grants $9M, including $500k for UDRP defense
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 to...
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ICANN grants $9M, including $500k for UDRP defense
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 to...
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May 30, 2025, 3:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
PayPal wants patent for system that scans newly-registered domains
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 register...
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PayPal wants patent for system that scans newly-registered domains
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 register...
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May 29, 2025, 4:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user rewind: more domain name sales
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 th...
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End user rewind: more domain name sales
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 th...
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May 29, 2025, 1:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Build your list: registrar offers $4.99 .com registrations
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 registrat...
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Build your list: registrar offers $4.99 .com registrations
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 registrat...
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May 29, 2025, 1:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy plans next premium auction, including registry-owned .io domains
GoDaddy plans featured auction that will include registry-owned .io domains. GoDaddy has announced that its next featured auction event will begin on June 10, with auctions concluding on June 17 and 18. This auction will include third-party inventory...
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GoDaddy plans next premium auction, including registry-owned .io domains
GoDaddy plans featured auction that will include registry-owned .io domains. GoDaddy has announced that its next featured auction event will begin on June 10, with auctions concluding on June 17 and 18. This auction will include third-party inventory...
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May 28, 2025, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Identity Digital releases Q1 data on premium domain sales and keyword trends
.Global domains among most-sold premium domain names. Identity Digital has published a summary of domain name data from Q1 2025. The company is the largest domain name registry in terms of number of TLDs, with nearly 300. The company revealed 20 prem...
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Identity Digital releases Q1 data on premium domain sales and keyword trends
.Global domains among most-sold premium domain names. Identity Digital has published a summary of domain name data from Q1 2025. The company is the largest domain name registry in terms of number of TLDs, with nearly 300. The company revealed 20 prem...
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May 28, 2025, 4:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Artificial intelligence remains hot for domain names
AI, my, and group top the list of keywords in sold domain names. Afternic has released its latest list of hot keywords in the aftermarket, and AI leads the list again, other than for the filler word ‘the’. This list includes sales that oc...
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Artificial intelligence remains hot for domain names
AI, my, and group top the list of keywords in sold domain names. Afternic has released its latest list of hot keywords in the aftermarket, and AI leads the list again, other than for the filler word ‘the’. This list includes sales that oc...
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May 28, 2025, 4:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy patent targets spam-induced domain search overload
A newly issued patent aims to mitigate “resource starvation” resulting from bulk domain availability queries. Domain registrar GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has secured a patent designed to address spam-induced resource depletion caused by excessi...
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GoDaddy patent targets spam-induced domain search overload
A newly issued patent aims to mitigate “resource starvation” resulting from bulk domain availability queries. Domain registrar GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has secured a patent designed to address spam-induced resource depletion caused by excessi...
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May 27, 2025, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Atom becomes an ICANN-accredited registrar with big plans
Marketplace will build a registrar from the ground up to benefit domain investors and buyers. Domain marketplace and naming platform Atom announced today that it has obtained registrar accreditation from ICANN. Becoming a registrar provides significa...
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Atom becomes an ICANN-accredited registrar with big plans
Marketplace will build a registrar from the ground up to benefit domain investors and buyers. Domain marketplace and naming platform Atom announced today that it has obtained registrar accreditation from ICANN. Becoming a registrar provides significa...
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May 27, 2025, 2:10 pm
