Saw.com 2025 by the numbers

Saw.com posted on X that they made 19,376 phone calls, 91,408 texts and over 640,000 emails in 2025. They reached the $100M milestone in November. Saw.com has been a sponsor here and Jeff Gabriel has provided a lot of valuable insight on my phone calls with him. I believe his appearance on the Exit podcast [...]

By |December 31st, 2025|Uncategorized|

Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z

Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.   What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued [...]

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Davidson College loses cybersquatting dispute

College filed case against a man whose last name is Davidson. Davidson College, a prestigious school in North Carolina, has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name davidson.one. Dominic Davidson, a New Zealand man, registered the domain name and others with his surname in them for his personal and business use. The [...]

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2025 in Review: The death of AdSense for Domains

Google’s decision to effectively sunset AdSense for Domains is having a significant impact on the domain industry. Perhaps the writing was on the wall. In 2023 and 2024, Google made several changes to AdSense for Domains (AFD) that curtailed revenue. First, it implemented new consent requirements for visitors from the EU before they’d be presented [...]

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Verisign: short sellers were wrong

.Com registry says data shows short sellers were way out of line about impact of AdSense for Domains. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) published a blog post this week stating that data shows short sellers were wrong about the impact AdSense for Domains (AFD) would have on .com registrations. Google effectively shut down its AdSense for Domains [...]

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