Industry Expert Jeanette Eriksson Delivers Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Next Round of New TLDs in a Series of Articles You Won’t Want to Miss

With ICANN about to open the door for hundreds of new TLDs there is a hunger among potential new domain registry operators, registrants and service providers for information on how they can best take advantage of the new opportunities this will present.. Some of the most insightful writing we've seen on this topic has been [...]

By |February 14th, 2026|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

By |February 13th, 2026|Uncategorized|