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Welcome to the The
Lowdown from
DN Journal - your source for notable news
and information from all corners of the global
domain name
industry!
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Big
Early Bird Discount for NamesCon Global 2024 Ends
This Week - Godaddy Connects with ENS - GGRG
Issues Latest Liquid Domain Sales Report |
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Update:
NamesCon Global 2024 has extended the
deadline to take advantage of the Early Bird
rate to March 8, 2024.
With
last month's 2024
ICA Meeting in Las Vegas now behind
us, our conference sights are now set on the 2024
NamesCon Global conference coming up June
5-8, 2024 at the Downtown Omni Hotel in
Austin, Texas. With the show opens exactly four
months from today and the next 120 days will blow
by before you know it. In fact time is already
running out if you want to get an early
bird ticket that will get you in for less
than half the price of the regular ticket.
That offer expires Thursday night, February 8
just before midnight (U.S. Eastern Standard Time). That
is significant because the early bird deal cuts
the standard $999 price down to $449
($505.96 with sales tax and service fee). The deal
is reserved for individual domainers, brokers,
and entrepreneurs and will give you access
to all sessions, keynotes, networking events and
NamesCon's attendee-only parties. As
was the case last year, the NamesCon ticket
will also
you full access to CloudFest
USA, a closely related internet
infrastructure industry event that will run
parallel to NamesCon Global at the same venue. NamesCon
Global organizers are busy putting together another
jam-packed agenda right now. I just heard from
Chairman of the Board Soeren von Varchmin
this morning letting me know about some impressive
speakers they have already lined up that will be
publicly announced soon. If you have never been to
a NamesCon event before you can see what they are
all in about in our comprehensive review of the 2023
edition of NamesCon that was also held
at the Omni in Austin, We will, or course, be
there again to cover it all in June and hope to
see you at the big event as well. |
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A couple of
other things of special interest to tell you
about today. GoDaddy
has announced a
new partnership with Ethereum
Name Service (ENS), a pioneer in
blockchain-based naming systems, to
enable domain name users to link their
domains to ENS effortlessly, with no
additional costs or technical experience
required. The two companies see this
collaboration as a major step toward
bridging the gap between the Domain
Name System (DNS) and blockchain
technology.
Paul
Nicks, President of Domains at
GoDaddy, said "As a long-time domain
industry steward, we are always looking for
innovative enhancements that benefit our
customers. Partnering with ENS presents
our customers with a unique opportunity to
experience the fusion of domains names and
blockchain technologies, bringing some great
benefits for users in both areas." |
While it
has always been feasible to bring domain names over
to ENS, barriers like high gas
fees have limited the seamless
transition. To help, ENS deployed new smart
contracts to enable the resolution process of
domain names in ENS, at the DNS top-level domain
(TLD) level. This allows verification of DNS
records, enabling a cost-free method for
users.
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Elsewhere,
GGRG's latest
quarterly Liquid
Market Report, covering
domain sales from this category reported in
the 4th quarter of 2023, is out. The
report covers a subset of the overall
aftermarket - short acronym and numeric
domains - that, due to steady demand,
tend to have more liquidity than most
other domain categories. These are .com
domains comprised of 2-4 letters, 2-5
numbers or a combination
of 2-3 characters mixing letters and numbers. Taken
as whole, that "liquid" universe
includes 614,928 .com domains.
In
this 30th edition of the report, GGRG
Founder Giuseppe Graziano compiled
over $16.9 million worth of sales
with over $9.5 million of those being closed
on the |
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Escrow.com
platform and another $7.4 million tallied by
totaling up publicly disclosed sales
(Escrow.com provides their total $ volume
but does not disclose individual sales). The
4th quarter presented an unusual dichotomy
with sales volume for publicly reported
sales up 179% from the previous
quarter while volume on the Escrow.com platform
dropped 57%. Check out the
full report for a detailed breakdown of the
data that will give you more insight into
what produced those results. |
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