Last week, I published my first "GoDaddy Special" edition of The Sales Roundup, from the recent list of GoDaddy-facilitated sales that the company disclosed. In this second part of the GoDaddy Special edition of The Sales Roundup, I look behind the numbers to see why certain...

NameCheap has had a great year so far. Recent financial statistics revealed to DomainNameWire show that the registrar has now hit 12 million domain names under management, with an increase of 653,000 names in Q3 of 2020 alone. With 859,000 new customers this year and...

Mike Mann, the founder of DomainMarket.com, has taken to Twitter to announce his latest domain sale. According to Mike's tweet, he has sold the domain LightRock.com for $94,888: Rock solid rocker sold https://t.co/ZtpjNl4yGf $94,888. — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) October 20, 2020 As of writing, the domain points...

Unicorn companies are privately held startups that have attained a valuation of $1 billion or more. A rare feat that only relatively few companies have ever achieved. In part 1 of this Data Driven article, I started looking at unicorn companies who had invested sometimes...

This past week, GoDaddy disclosed a list of their top 20 domain sales for the month of June 2020. I'm going to be taking a look at why some of these domains sold for the prices they did, but first, I want to appreciate...

If you're a startup that has decided to brand yourself on a generic dictionary word, what is your domain name strategy? For Ginger, the founders decided to base their brand on the domain Ginger.io for many years, carving out an identity that was far removed...