Shopify paid $200,000 for Shop.app in 2020. Now, its reported $99 million purchase of Shop.com has set a new all-time domain sales record. The deal underscores how much companies will pay to secure the matching .com, even after establishing their brand on another extension. Meanwhile,...
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PALM BEACH, FL – X, formerly Twitter, has opened its Lead Generation Ads to advertisers globally, including small businesses and those managing their own campaigns. The format allows prospective customers
PALM BEACH, FL – Startups frequently launch with the domain name they can obtain, then pursue the one they ultimately want as the business develops and its resources grow. AI
NEW YORK, NY – They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. But what if you own NewYork.com? It is a question I
SWITZERLAND – A Danish renewable energy company that tried repeatedly to buy WindSpace.com has lost its bid to obtain the domain through a cybersquatting complaint, with a WIPO panel finding
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Businesses giving artificial intelligence permission to perform tasks should take a closer look at the responsibilities that come with that access. Google has notified customers
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The PHP development team released emergency security updates on October 21, 2026, addressing two critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute malicious code on
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – One of the most practical ways to reduce a WordPress website’s exposure to security problems is to keep its plugins to the minimum necessary. A
MIAMI, FL – GoDaddy Chief Executive Officer Aman Bhutani will deliver a keynote at NamesCon Global in Miami, organizers announced in an October 16 email to attendees and subscribers. The
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Companies have spent years tracking where they appear in Google results. Now some are using automated tools to monitor what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – I’ve never been particularly enthusiastic about Google’s Local Services Ads program. In my experience working in internet marketing, I’ve generally found the leads expensive, sometimes
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed 1,615 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), potentially introducing hundreds of additional Internet address
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Google is accelerating its push into workplace artificial intelligence, positioning its Gemini technology as a tool capable of doing more than generating content, answering questions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google Ads is relaxing its business name requirements, giving verified advertisers more flexibility when their recognized brand name does not match the domain used in an
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two of the most security-sensitive organizations in the United States have been dealing with major data breaches at nearly the same time, exposing sensitive information connected to
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A push by President Donald Trump to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” is creating an unexpected surge in demand for Slovenia’s .SI country-code domain.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – This evening I was reading DN Journal’s recent profile of veteran domain investor Yoni Belousov when I found myself asking a fairly simple question: What
The iconic Nashville.com domain name has been sold after more than two decades under the ownership of the Castello Brothers. Here’s what we know about the historic geo-domain transaction, and...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Internet users have been told for years to inspect a website address before clicking a suspicious link. A phishing technique known as a homoglyph attack
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – EstiBot has launched SoldNames.com, a free database combining historical domain sales with live domain auctions, adding another piece to a growing collection of tools that
MIAMI, FL – Rick Schwartz’s Beanstalk Challenge has succeeded at one thing beyond dispute: getting valuable domain names developed. In roughly six months, dozens of premium domains that previously sat
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google Ads is sending advertisers an unusual quarterly policy reminder specifically warning about deepfakes, non-consensual intimate imagery and other forms of unlawful synthetic content. The email,