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Registrar	Total	% Gain/Loss
GoDaddy	61,587,392	0.19%
Tucows	9,987,230	0.40%
NameCheap	9,304,928	1.62%
Network Solutions	6,743,606	0.18%
HiChina	6,690,633	0.38%
eNom	4,901,482	-0.82%
GoogleInc	4,822,206	2.35%
1 & 1 INTERNET	4,678,599	-0.18%
PublicDomainRegistry	4,460,257	1.16%
GMO Internet	3,920,862	-1.05%

TLD	New	Deleted	Transferred	Current Total
.com	94,467	130,548	137,070	152,907,885
.net	5,955	8,588	10,088	13,247,161
.info	2,675	4,831	2,949	3,958,390
.xyz	5,156	16,468	4,644	3,019,011
.pl	1,355	2,688	118	2,493,441
.online	2,457	3,259	3,140	1,777,227
.us	1,008	1,068	653	1,678,319
.biz	474	922	608	1,379,537
.top	1,445	22,896	960	1,150,247
Total	114,992	191,268	160,230	181,611,218

Verisign gets patent for GDPR-compliant Whois privacy
Patented methods help Thick Whois registries handle privacy law compliance. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,979,384 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Systems and methods for preserving privacy of a registrant in a Domain Name System. I wrote about the patent application in 2017 after it was published. The patent Post link: Verisign gets pat...

A few reflections on my 40th birthday
So today is Sunday, April 11th, it’s 7:15am and I’m sitting at my desk in our apartment in San Francisco writing this post. Technically my Birthday isn’t until this Tuesday, April 13th, so as I write this I’m still 39. For my 40th Birthday, Daina (my wife) and I are spending a week in Yosemite, More...

Auction recap of april 12, 2021
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on April 12, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve. I’m only showing where the price was when the domain auction ended, but the name may not have sold if a reserve was in place. GoDaddy Names at Auction
Namecheap Acquires IZ.com and Poke.com
A little over a month ago, I reported that Namecheap acquired Cluster.com for $150,000 in a private transaction. The acquisition was made by the company “as a brand asset for a future product,” according to Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall. I recently learned that Namecheap has acquired two additional high value domain names: IZ.com and Poke.com. Two podcasts to listen to this week
Hear from two people in the domain industry on The Side Hustle Show. Once you’re done listening to this week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast, I recommend downloading two recent The Side Hustle Show episodes. In episode #437, Nick Loper interviews domain investor Mark Levine. Mark discusses his results from last year and his philosophy about Post link: Two podcasts to listen to this week<...

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