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How many domain name companies will there be five years from now? At the rate we're going, not many.
No, I'm not talking about companies going out of business. I'm talking about consolidation.
Last month, GoDaddy Registry announced it is acquiring MMX's 28 strings along with .design and .club. GoDaddy Registry itself was created by acquiring Neustar's registry business last year.
It's just the latest acquisition in our industry and follows Donuts' acquisition of Afilias at the end of last year.
Consolidation is not a problem in and of itself. But it's important that we always have strong competitors in the business. This drives innovation and keeps costs down for consumers. It's important that we have many strong registrars, many registries, at least two good expired domain services, and at least two good marketplaces to choose from. It's also important that we support the new companies trying to shake up the industry.
GoDaddy's acquisition announcement was the most-read story on Domain Name Wire in April. Scroll down to find the other top stories and the podcasts I published last month.
-Andrew
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Here are the top stories on DNW last month, as ranked by pageviews:
1. GoDaddy to acquire MMX, .Club, .Design - More domain industry consolidation as GoDaddy announced it's acquiring 30 top level domain names as part of its GoDaddy Registry business. 2. Bloomberg writes about Nick Lim and Epik - Bloomberg published an interesting story about Nick Lim, who sold his company BitMitigate to domain name register Epik in 2019. 3. Frank Schilling's top level domain auction begins today - The auction concluded last week. Results are not yet known. 4. Stands4 sues Dan.com over Calculator.com transaction - A company sued Dan.com after it bought a hot domain. 5. ICANN sends breach notice to Pheenix - After over a year of not hearing back from the registrar, ICANN finally sent a breach notice.
Podcasts
#335 - Developing your domains into a business with Michael Cyger - listen #334 - Tackling DNS Abuse with Graeme Bunton - listen #333 - More domain investing competition with Braden Pollock - listen #332 - The "new" NamesCon and Cloudfest with Christian Jaeger and Soeren von Varchmin - listen Get the Latest Don't wait for this newsletter to get the latest domain name news. Check in to DNW daily, and join the 35k people who follow DNW on Twitter. Thanks for reading, Andrew | 
