Namecheap releases 2025 registration data

Domain registrar releases interesting data about domain registrations. Namecheap has published its 2025 Domain Insights & Trends Report, sharing data specific to Namecheap and Spaceship registrations last year. Overall, Namecheap customers registered 11.64 million domains last year. 4.67 million (40%) of those were .com domain names. Registrations of .ai domain names grew 55% from 2024 [...]

By |January 29th, 2026|Uncategorized|

GoDaddy stock falls below $100 threshold

Stock dips below psychological threshold as tech stocks fall. Shares of domain name registrar and website company GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) fell below $100 today, to roughly $99.75. A drop of about 3.5% as of 12:25 pm ET today is part of an overall rout in tech stocks. However, the company’s share price has been in [...]

By |January 29th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Company tires to reverse hijack fin.com domain name

Long-shot UDRP against a valuable domain goes nowhere. A UDRP panel has found that Financial Information Network, Inc. tried to reverse hijack the valuable domain name fin.com. The company uses the domain name fingps.com. While the domain previously resolved to a site about financial services, when checked today, it only showed a logo with no [...]

By |January 29th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Bob Mountain joins D3

After leaving GoDaddy a year ago, Bob Mountain will now head business development at D3. A year after leaving the domain name industry, Bob Mountain is back. D3 announced today that Mountain has joined the firm as Chief Commercial and Revenue Officer. Mountain will oversee business development, sales, partnerships, and partner operations for the company. [...]

By |January 29th, 2026|Uncategorized|