Source: Domainnamewire.com If growth rate continues, GoDaddy’s domain name business might hit $1 billion in 2017. GoDaddy released Q4 and full year 2016 earnings after the bell today. The company reported $485.9 million in revenue for Q4, up 14.2%…
Source: Domainnamewire.com General Motors and Computer Associates among end users that bought domain names at Sedo. This week’s end user domain sales list has something for everyone. There are big names, including GM and CA. There’s a trade association…
Source: Domainnamewire.com Chime.aws is the second website Amazon has launched on its .aws brand domain. Amazon’s new video conferencing solution is on the .aws top level domain.Amazon announced a new video conferencing and work collaboration service today called Amazon…
Source: Domainnamewire.com Trump and Wall were popular terms in new .com registrations last month. We can debate how many people showed up to Donald Trump’s inauguration but there’s one thing we can’t debate: his inauguration propelled him to the…
Source: Domainnamewire.com Company filed cybersquatting claim against domain name that was registered before the company existed. Obero, Inc., a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and business analytics firm based in Ontario, Canada, has been found to have engaged in reverse…
Source: Domainnamewire.com A chip company has apparently narrowed its name choice to three different brand names. It appears that a semiconductor company (or perhaps two chip companies that are merging) are going through the naming process. Some company registered…
Source: Domainnamewire.com Toby Clements, eNom and Escrow.com were among the top stories on DNW last month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s almost Valentine’s Day, so why am I just getting around to reviewing last month’s top stories? I’ll blame the…
Source: Domainnamewire.com How to make money from emails sent to your domain names. Domainers already monetize web traffic to their domain names. But what about email sent to their parked domains? Today’s guest, Greg Kraios, runs an email analytics…
Source: Domainnamewire.com Finally! Two Chinese IDNs get welcome news from China’s regulators. After a long wait, two Chinese internationalized domain names have been accredited by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). TLD Registry’s .在线 (Dot Chinese Online)…
Source: Domainnamewire.com Registry blames overwhelming demand and searches for .art domains. [Update: .Art’s registration process is now back up as of about 2 PM ET Friday.] The .Art domain name was supposed to launch a qualified launch phase earlier…