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Domain Name Wire
2024 in review – DNW Podcast #516
My good sales month, plus a look back at popular and noteworthy stories in the domain business. Happy New Year! As we look forward to 2025, let’s take a moment to consider what impacted the domain industry in 2024. On today’s episode: Pos...
Discussion
2024 in review – DNW Podcast #516
My good sales month, plus a look back at popular and noteworthy stories in the domain business. Happy New Year! As we look forward to 2025, let’s take a moment to consider what impacted the domain industry in 2024. On today’s episode: Pos...
Discussion
January 6, 2025, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
How domain name stocks performed in 2024
GoDaddy and NameSilo gained; Team Internet Group and Tucows faced headwinds. With 2024 in the books, here’s a look at how domain name stocks performed for the year. For reference, the NASDAQ was up nearly 29% for the year. NameSilo (OTC: URL.CN...
Discussion
How domain name stocks performed in 2024
GoDaddy and NameSilo gained; Team Internet Group and Tucows faced headwinds. With 2024 in the books, here’s a look at how domain name stocks performed for the year. For reference, the NASDAQ was up nearly 29% for the year. NameSilo (OTC: URL.CN...
Discussion
January 6, 2025, 1:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
2024 in review: The Domain Aftermarket
Afternic introduces Boost and more domain sales platforms launch. Most domain investors make money by selling their domains through aftermarket platforms such as Afternic and Sedo. This year brought significant developments to these platforms. The bi...
Discussion
2024 in review: The Domain Aftermarket
Afternic introduces Boost and more domain sales platforms launch. Most domain investors make money by selling their domains through aftermarket platforms such as Afternic and Sedo. This year brought significant developments to these platforms. The bi...
Discussion
January 3, 2025, 2:10 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – January 2, 2025 – Happy New Year
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!• The Sherpas skip The Domain Game and spread some holiday cheer and domain knowledge, highlighting some of what ha...
Discussion
DomainSherpa Review – January 2, 2025 – Happy New Year
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!• The Sherpas skip The Domain Game and spread some holiday cheer and domain knowledge, highlighting some of what ha...
Discussion
January 2, 2025, 11:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Ai approaches 600k domains as handoff nears
.Ai namespace continues to grow quickly. If you listened to this year’s predictions podcast, you heard many people talk about artificial intelligence. One of the biggest beneficiaries of AI in Anguilla, which lucked into having the .ai country ...
Discussion
.Ai approaches 600k domains as handoff nears
.Ai namespace continues to grow quickly. If you listened to this year’s predictions podcast, you heard many people talk about artificial intelligence. One of the biggest beneficiaries of AI in Anguilla, which lucked into having the .ai country ...
Discussion
January 2, 2025, 9:05 pm
The Domains
2024 was a good year to be a GoDaddy shareholder
2024 saw a lot of changes and new features for domain investors using GoDaddy and their associated properties, (DAN, Afternic) DAN said goodbye and Afternic gave us a boost. Custom checkout links and LTO were added to Afternic and now the custom chec...
Discussion
2024 was a good year to be a GoDaddy shareholder
2024 saw a lot of changes and new features for domain investors using GoDaddy and their associated properties, (DAN, Afternic) DAN said goodbye and Afternic gave us a boost. Custom checkout links and LTO were added to Afternic and now the custom chec...
Discussion
January 2, 2025, 2:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
2024 in review: Domain Parking
There are storm clouds in parking, and this could impact the domain industry at large. You might be surprised that I’m discussing domain parking as a big topic in 2024. While I don’t write about parking much these days — given that ...
Discussion
2024 in review: Domain Parking
There are storm clouds in parking, and this could impact the domain industry at large. You might be surprised that I’m discussing domain parking as a big topic in 2024. While I don’t write about parking much these days — given that ...
Discussion
January 2, 2025, 2:27 pm
The Domains
RWA.art sells for $20,000
The last day of 2024 has been a great day for new gtlds. From People.love to Newton.xyz the last sale of 2024 looks to be RWA.art which was sold for $20,000 at Afternic. RWA or Real World Assets has gotten some traction in the upcoming or future tren...
Discussion
RWA.art sells for $20,000
The last day of 2024 has been a great day for new gtlds. From People.love to Newton.xyz the last sale of 2024 looks to be RWA.art which was sold for $20,000 at Afternic. RWA or Real World Assets has gotten some traction in the upcoming or future tren...
Discussion
January 1, 2025, 2:31 am
Domain Name Wire
2024 in review: Domain Registration Stagnation
The domain market is flat. What does this mean for the industry at large? What does the domain name industry look like without growth? In 2024, we found out. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, there were 362.3 million registered doma...
Discussion
2024 in review: Domain Registration Stagnation
The domain market is flat. What does this mean for the industry at large? What does the domain name industry look like without growth? In 2024, we found out. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, there were 362.3 million registered doma...
Discussion
December 31, 2024, 6:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Unstoppable Domains gets patent for reserved domain name registration
Patent describes way to validate that an entity has rights to register a reserved name. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted patent 12,184,604 (pdf) to Unstoppable Domains for “Domain name registration based on verification of ent...
Discussion
Unstoppable Domains gets patent for reserved domain name registration
Patent describes way to validate that an entity has rights to register a reserved name. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted patent 12,184,604 (pdf) to Unstoppable Domains for “Domain name registration based on verification of ent...
Discussion
December 31, 2024, 5:43 pm
