Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

13.1 million new .com/.net registrations set another record. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported third-quarter earnings this afternoon. The company reported $443 million in Q3 revenue, up 5.7% year over year. Operating income increased from $284 million to $296 million. Net income was flat after deducting a $7.5 million loss related to assets held for sale. Its [...]

New API makes it possible to integrate with other tools and manage your portfolio. Afternic’s Portfolio API is now open to all sellers. The API lets sellers automate tasks and optimize their portfolio. I’ve used it in two ways: Add listings – When I have bulk listings to add, the API can be easier to [...]

A new wave of applicants is betting on dot-brands despite limited adoption. Today, ICANN posted another termination notice from a dot-brand owner seeking to cancel a TLD it acquired in the 2012 expansion round. Nippon Life Insurance Company said it no longer wants to operate .nissay. (Its domain name is nissay.co.jp.) That brings the total [...]

Josh Reason shares an update on his hand registration experiment. The numbers don’t lie: people are hand registering more domains now than ever before. In the third quarter, people registered 13.1 million new .com and .net domains. That was a record for Verisign, beating the previous record set just three months earlier. Sure, some were [...]

Verisign paid a lot for .web. We’re about to see what kind of return it will get. In an SEC filing yesterday, Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) disclosed the total cost of acquiring the .web top level domain: $171.4 million. Most of that was already known. In 2016, Nu Dot Co won an ICANN auction for the [...]

Only 21 internationalized domain name applications were submitted in ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round, raising government concerns about linguistic diversity and the accessibility of the domain expansion program.

France has proposed legislation allowing authorities to block social media platforms over prohibited content, following revelations that telecom operators were asked to prepare geographically targeted DNS restrictions during protests.

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

The countdown to ICA.Vegas 2027 is officially on! As our members travel from near and far to converge on Las Vegas, we are excited to share details about how we will be launching our annual meeting together. Join us on Sunday evening at Nevada Brew Works for our official pre-event welcome gathering, generously sponsored by [...]