Anand Vora joins Namecheap as VP, Head of Domains

Vora moves to registrar side of the domain name industry. A long-time fixture in the domain name industry has taken a role with Namecheap. Anand Vora got his start in the domain name business as a summer intern at Public Interest Registry. He then joined the nonprofit that oversees .org full-time. After about five years, [...]

By |February 13th, 2026|Uncategorized|

$1.4 million of expired domain name sales

Auctions were hot at NameJet and SnapNames over the past two months. Newfold Digital’s domain auction platforms, NameJet and SnapNames, had a busy holiday season. In December, the platforms combined to sell 100 domains for $2,000 or more, totalling $675k. In January, they combined for 141 sales of $2,000 or more, totalling $762k. Here are [...]

By |February 13th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony [...]

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AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten [...]

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