Bhavin Turakhia has been very busy, after co-founding Directi in 1998 with his brother, Divyank Turakhia, the two exited the business in 2014 in a $160 million transaction with Endurance (now Newfold Digital). Turakhia then went on to start Radix, a leading new gTLD registry; Titan, a next-gen email suite for the small business customers of web hosts and domain registrars; and Zeta, the emerging … [Read more...]
Radix’s .Tech Domains Partners with Code.org & Domain Industry Giants to Bridge the Widening Gender & Race Gap in Computer Science
100% of .Tech Domain Sales Made Through GoDaddy, Domain.com & Namecheap to Go Towards Enhancing K-12 CS Curriculum .Tech Domains, the leading new domain extension for the tech ecosystem, recently announced that it is collaborating with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools. The campaign, which is called #MyStartInTech, will address the widening … [Read more...]
Radix sees revenues up 31% in 2020 vs 2019
Radix published their full year 2020 results and the numbers were up from 2019. The $28 million in revenue was up 31% over 2019. Radix CEO Sandeep Ramchandani, said, “2020 was a really strong year for us, both, financially and strategically. Since a majority of our revenue comes from renewals, we will only start seeing the sharp growth in CoVid-led registrations turn into revenues from Q2 2021. … [Read more...]
Radix registers over $2m in premium sales revenue for second half of 2020
Radix released their second half 2020 premium sales data. $2.01M in premium retail revenueComprises of $1.15M coming from renewals37% growth in premium new registrations from H2 2020.TECH was the highest-grossing TLD with $273K in annuity premium sales … [Read more...]
Q & A with Bhavin Turakhia from Radix
Radix put on an invitation only show called Converge a couple weeks ago. In that event there was a good Q & A with founder Bhavin Turakhia . Bhavin spent about 50 minutes answering questions from attendees. Clifford was nice enough to get the video I requested so that others who were not there could watch the Q&A. At the 22 minute mark there was a good question. We all know that many … [Read more...]
More events that are now using .online
2020 has been the year of the online conference. Thanks to Covid-19 many conferences including NamesCon moved online. With that move has come a greater use for .online as the conference website. Radix (an advertiser here) published a post showing 8 conferences using their .online extension. From the Radix Blog: Virtual Events 2020: 8 Major Events That Are Now … [Read more...]
Radix announces launch of Namify
Radix is entering the name spinning space with Namify, located at Namify.tech. The name-spinner is aimed at solopreneurs, small business owners and startups looking for affordable brand building solutions that include brand name, domain name, social media handles as well as a brand logo. Unlike most other brand name spinners that simply add prefixes and suffixes to the keywords inserted … [Read more...]