GoDaddy is paying $218 million for Neustar’s registry business

Company discloses acquisition price for Neustar business.

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) unveiled its acquisition price for Neustar along with GoDaddy’s first-quarter earnings today. It is paying $218 million for the business and expects the transaction to close “in the coming months.”

The domain name company announced the acquisition last month.

With Neustar, GoDaddy will now control both the wholesale and retail side of many domain names. Neustar operates .us, .co, and .biz, among other domain names.

Neustar is currently owned by a private equity consortium led by Golden Gate Capital, which scooped up the business in 2017. The registry business sale is a carveout of the marketing data, security, and intelligence company.

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Better together: Uni joins GoDaddy

Uni has always been about catering to domain investors, domain lovers, and people who understand the value of the right name. We always aim to provide end-to-end solutions for the internet’s unique identifiers: domain names. Tools, technology, and tenacity have gotten us to the front of the line, and Uni will join GoDaddy. We couldn’t be more thrilled. Welcome to the future of domaining.

Why?

We’ve been tirelessly working away on our Market for years, making sure we’re building tools that make your life easier, tools that enable you to sell quicker, to sell on the go, with more exposure, with more data, more feedback and a process that works for all. We truly love domains, we love this industry, we love what we do, and we want to bring this technology to all, to reach the furthest parts of the world and make domains accessible for everyone.

What is an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN)?

Internationalized domain names (IDNs) are domain names that are written in languages or scripts which use Latin letters with diacritics (accents marks such as é or ü) or which do not use the Latin alphabet at all. IDNs allow native speakers of non-Latin based scripts to access the Internet in their own language.

 Since Internet usage is rising around the world and the world is full of many different languages and scripts (and Chinese is the most spoken language!), IDNs offer a great way to connect with your target market no matter what they speak!

Top 100 Domain Name Sales of All Time

Below you'll find a chart ranking the Top 100 Domain Sales of All Time. It is updated in real-time as new sales are reported so check back frequently. The list only includes all-cash sales of domain names, it doesn't include sales of websites, businesses or sales where there was an equity component.

During this period 761,815 sales $100+ were recorded totaling $1,822,142,719.

An additional 1,108,130 sales below $100 were recorded totaling $29,371,570.

What is DNS?

The glue that holds the internet together

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The Domain Name System (or DNS) converts human readable domain names (like: www.google.com) into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (like: 173.194.39.78).

A startup changed its domain from .com to .top

Some companies trade in longer .coms for shorter second level domains in other extensions.

I love watching the Chinese domain market because it is full of surprises. Recently, I read a news story that a Chinese startup changed its domain from .com to .top. That challenges the conventional wisdom of .com being the ultimate upgrade.

Will Chinese IDN domains become widely used?

So far, Chinese IDN top level domains have struggled.

 

Just a few days ago the Internet Society of China announced the formation of a working group to promote the use of Chinese domains. Is it the trigger we need to see Chinese IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) flourish?
As the organization is supported by the Ministry of Information Industry, this also suggests a strong desire from the Chinese government to see the widespread use of Chinese domains. The working group aims to resolve technical issues so that Chinese domains can work nicely with browsers, email systems, search engines, and other aspects of the internet. It will also promote innovation and application of Chinese domains to enable their popular use.

.Org updates: deadline extended, state regulators ask for time to weigh in

ICANN and Public Interest Registry have mutually agreed to extend the time that ICANN has to answers to its questions about the sale of .org to Ethos Capital by 30 days. ICANN also says that it will be asking more questions.

review Public Interest Registry’s (PIR)
Separately, The National Association of State Charities Officials has written to ICANN (pdf) to ask it to allow time for regulators to review the transaction.

What is a Subdomain? And How to Create One?

What is a subdomain?’ you may ask. Well, the most popular definition is ‘a subset of a larger domain name’. But that doesn’t sound very much like English, does it?
Let’s make it easier to grasp with an example. First, a standard domain name:

As you can see, a normal domain name has a couple of components to it. The two most significant ones are:

• TLD — Top Level Domain — which is also commonly referred to as a domain extension. This part is your familiar .com, .net, .org or whatever else your domain extension is.

A Beginner’s Guide to Successful Domaining

Buying and selling of domains are volatile in nature yet it is a huge business in the marketplace. You will only need Google to dig deep into information of ‘domaining’ to view a sea of information on the subject.

So what’s the deal with domaining? Why is it so popular? You have probably heard stories about people selling domain names for thousands of dollars. Some of these stories are true.

Domain Sales

Here are few high profiles recorded domain sales from the past decade –

1. Insurance.com — an insurance quotation site — sold for $35.6 million in 2010
2. PrivateJet.com — a private jet booking service — sold for $30.1 million in 2012
3. Hotels.com — a hotel deals site — sold for $11 million in 2001
4. FB.com — sold (to Facebook) for $8.5 million in 2010
5. Beer.com — (now parked and unused!) sold for $7 million in 2004
6. iCloud.com sold (to Apple) for $6 million in 2011
7. IG.com — a stock trading site — sold for $4.7 million in 2013
8. Whisky.com — an information site — sold for $3.1 million in 2014

Frank Schilling wins cybersquatting dispute

Indian insurance company falls short in UDRP.

Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended the domain name CareHealthInsurance.com in a UDRP.
The three-person World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel determined that the Complainant, Religare Health Insurance Company Limited in India, did not show that Name Administration registered the domain name in bad faith. The Complainant had a high bar to overcome because care, health, and insurance are terms common

Register Domain Names Before Filing for TM!

In my article about checking for trademarks, Jackie asked, “Why do you prefer trademarkia.com over trademark247.com?” The simple reason is that I had not used the other website before but found Trademarkia.com to be effective enough to continue using it. Essentially, it gave me the information I was seeking and I did not have a need to search around to find something else.

Flipping Domain Names For Profit: How To Make Money Buying And Selling Domain Names

Flipping Domain Names For Profit

How To Make Money Buying And Selling Domain Names

Flipping domain names for profit may not be your Ideal small business on your mind, however when done right, making money through the sell of domain names can be a very lucrative business.

It also has to be said that flipping domain names for profit are not your average business model. It is most definitely not your get rich quick scheme either.

If you want to make money selling domain names, you will have to do market research and due diligence way before you buy your domain.

Buying the rights to an internet domain name that someone else wants allows you to charge them either for licensing or purchase. Even sites that others don’t want right away can be an opportunity for advertisement.

Best Domain Names Marketplaces For Your Domain Flipping Business

The online auction house is open, and if you’re lucky or just plain smart, you registered some good domain names back in the day. A good domain name can be worth over $10,000 to over $100,0 to the right buyer. Of course, there are also those names that no one will ever be able to afford, like CarInsurance.com, which is currently still on the market for $49.7 million. That’s some prime online real estate.
If you want some extra cash or you’re thinking about starting a domain flipping business, selling your domain names could be the right way to go. Most domain names appreciate over time, and many .COM domains are worth more today than when they were first purchased.
Let’s jump right in and find out some more about the best domain marketplaces on the web.

Best Places to Sell Your Domain Name

Some sites offer better auction tools, pricing, and advertising for sellers, so it’s a better choice to sell with these marketplaces instead.

How to Redirect Your Domain Name

What is a Website Redirect?

A website redirect will take one website URL and point it to another. When anyone types in or clicks on that original URL they’ll be taken to the new page or website.
Even if you don’t need to implement a redirect now, it’s probably something you’ll need to do eventually. Knowing how to implement a redirect will a valuable skill moving forward.
You can implement redirects on a URL or page-by-page basis.
There are a few different types of redirects you’ll want to be aware of. As you’ll see below, the 301 redirect is the most common and useful, but there are some other redirects available as well. 

1. 301 Redirect

A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect. This is the most commonly used and powerful redirect as it passes on nearly all of the link juice of the existing domain. This type of redirect takes place on both a browser and server level. In time, the search engines will index this redirect. 

What is a Domain Name?

New computer users often confuse domain names with universal resource locators, or URLs, and Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses. This confusion is understandable. It is worth learning the differences between them because these terms are ubiquitous. It is also helpful to be able to use terms correctly when communicating to technicians or other people within a professional organization.
This naming convention is analogous to a physical address system. People find web pages in a manner similar to the way that they use maps to find physical locations. If the Internet is like a phone book, and a web page is like a physical building, the URL would be the precise street address of that building. The IP address would be like the car that travels to its destination. There are also other useful metaphors for understanding this relationship.

Domain Names and URLs

The universal resource locator, or URL, is an entire set of directions, and it contains extremely detailed information. The domain name is one of the pieces inside of a URL. It is also the most easily recognized part of the entire address.