The Story of Name Ninja with Bill Sweetman [Interview]

Interviews
We are continuing the weekly interview series with a domain industry veteran: Bill Sweetman. Bill is the founder of Name Ninja, a domain brokerage an...
Guides

What You Should Know About Domain Status Codes

If you ever check Whois records of a domain name to find out what’s its current status, you should have seen the domain status codes. These codes are generally not that easy-to-understand. That’s why we think it’s a good idea to publish a blog...
.ICU Domain Extension
Domain Extensions

.ICU Domain Extension: Do You See Me?

.ICU, the generic domain extension (gTLD), was approved by ICANN in ICANN's New gTLD Program. ShortDot SA, based in Luxembourg is the registry of the .ICU. The extension stands for “I See You”. The Story of .ICU ICANN opened the new gT...
.BIZ Domain Extension: It's Your Business
Domain Extensions

.BIZ Domain Extension: It’s Your Business

.BIZ, the tenth most registered generic domain extension (gTLD), was approved by ICANN in June 2001 with other new extensions such as .info, .aero, and .name. .BIZ is one of the first new gTLDs and now has more than 1.6 million registered domain nam...
Domain Preferences of Y Combinator Companies
Statistics

Domain Preferences of Y Combinator Companies

Y Combinator (YC) is a seed funding company that was launched in 2005. Since then it has funded more than 2 thousand companies including some popular ones such as Dropbox, Stripe, Airbnb, Reddit, Zapier, Coinbase, and Twitch. We have analyzed the...
Top Domain Sales April 2020
Domain Sales

Top Domain Sales of April 2020

There are 6 domain sales over $50,000 and 99 domain sales over $10,000 in April 2020. The most expensive domain sale was therapists.com at $91,183. 12 of the top 20 sales are .com and there are 2 country code domains in the list. We see five 3-le...
Interview with Dofo.com's CEO Macit Tuna
Interviews

The Story of Dofo with Macit Tuna [Interview]

We’re starting a weekly interview series this week. We wanted to tell our story for a long time. So our first guest is someone we know, our co-founder and CEO Macit Tuna.  Macit’s former experience with domain names sparked the idea of dofo....
April 2020 Domain Industry Report
Reports

April 2020 Domain Industry Report

Starting this month, we are beginning to publish a monthly domain industry report. This report includes monthly top keywords, top extensions, top countries, top registrars and more. The last two months were interesting times for all over the worl...