By Bob Mountain, Chief Commercial & Revenue Officer, D3 Last week I joined the global Internet community in Mumbai, India for the ICANN85 Community Forum, held from March 7-12 at the Jio World Convention Centre. ICANN meetings bring together the organizations responsible for coordinating the domain name system: registries, registrars,
We’re excited to welcome Bob Mountain as Chief Commercial & Revenue Officer at D3. Bob brings nearly two decades of experience operating at the core of the global domain aftermarket. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Global Strategic Partnerships at GoDaddy, and prior to that spent five
By Susan Lawrence (Web2 BD & Partnerships, D3) Every year at NamesCon, there is one event that truly shows how far the domain industry has come - the "Women of the Web" lunch. Back in 2010, when this event first started, we barely had a handful of women
By Fred Hsu (CEO & Co-Founder, D3) The past few months, I went from Prague to Vegas to Vietnam, meeting with ICANN veterans, DeFi founders, and domain registrars alike. At every stop, one thing became clear: DomainFi Summer is here. We’re finally seeing alignment between markets, technology, and regulation.
By Inder Singh (VP, Product, D3) From June 30 to July 3, our team hit the ground in Cannes, France to participate in ETHCC 2025– one of Europe’s most anticipated crypto gatherings, now with a stunning Riviera twist. Builders, researchers, founders, and domain economy enthusiasts from all over came
By Fred Hsu (CEO & Co-Founder, D3) Todd Ryan is one of those rare domain investors who treats this business like a long game of strategy and margin. As CEO of American Business Capital Corp/ABC Productions and co-founder of PayNow.com, Todd’s career spans far beyond domaining, but
By Michael Ho (CBO & Co-Founder, D3) I’m thrilled to share some big news that’s set to shake up the $360 billion domain industry. Today, we’re unveiling a $1 million USDC developer fund to supercharge the Doma Protocol’s public testnet and fuel the rise of DomainFi—
Guest post by Tom Barrett (President & Founder, EnCirca) The domain industry is at an interesting stage. The infrastructure that we have relied on for decades is about to converge with decentralized technologies shaping the next generation of the Internet. At EnCirca, we’ve spent the better part of two
By Inder Singh (VP Product & Technology, D3) Last week, D3 hosted “The Future of Solana Record Service (SRS)” track at Solana’s Accelerate conference in New York. The session introduced SRS, purpose-built to evolve naming on Solana. SRS will enable developers like D3 to bring domains on Solana. I
By Fred Hsu (CEO & Co-Founder, D3) Our time in Hanoi was one of the most productive, high-energy weeks I’ve had in a while. Hanoi not only hosted ICANN’s Connected Parties Summit and APAC DNS Forum, it was also the location of our 3rd DomainFi Blueprint of the
By Anand Vora (VP of Business Development & Partner Operations, D3) I got a chance to sit down with Tom Barrett, Founder and President of EnCirca, one of the most technically forward-thinking registrars in our industry and a charter member of the DomainFi Vanguard program. As a developer and advisor
By Fred Hsu (CEO & Co-Founder, D3) 25 years ago, I built my first domain company out of college that managed over 40M domains and watched an industry evolve through skepticism and innovation. Today, I'm seeing the exact same pattern with stablecoins. As Chris Dixon notes, "The