There were 17 4-figure sales yesterday plus the Great Domains auction and of course DomainInvesting.com reported the sale of the domain Ebola.com for $50,000 plus shares for a total of more than $200k. Rolf Larsen, …
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Paper: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars (Myth & Fact)
A new paper commissioned by CENTR and written by Architelos evaluating the impact of new gTLDs, in particular on the domain name sales channels has been published. In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to …
Read More »How Many Domain Registrations Did .Realtor Get On 1st Day? Nobody Knows!
.Realtor launched yesterday by the National Association of Realtors that is offering 500,000 free domains to its members. One problem with the extension is that geographic, generic terms and initials are not available for anyone …
Read More ».OOO Has 28,133 Premium(?) Domains And 149 Registrations After Its 1st Day
.OOO entered general availability yesterday, 24th of October. According to ntldstats.com it has about 28,500 domains after its first day. But more than 28,000 are the so called .ooo premium reserved domains. I have no …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-22-2014): LocalGenius.com $14,000, Billigerflüge.de 5,555 EUR, Urle.com $5,605
Rolf Larsen, founder and CEO of dot GLOBAL, wrote an article called “What Have We Learned From .Com?” on “Innovation Insights” of Wired.com. Some people will not like what I said about the article. Some …
Read More »Verisign Q3 2014 Report: 1.15 Million New Domains Added Ending Quarter With 130 Million
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial and business results for the third quarter of 2014, including stats on .com and .net domain names that are on the rise. Third Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, …
Read More »“What Have We Learned From .Com?” Apparently Not A Lot!
Rolf Larsen, founder and CEO of dot GLOBAL, wrote an article on “Innovation Insights” of Wired.com. Some people will not like what I have to say about the article, including Rolf. These kind of articles …
Read More ».Realtor Launches Today But Geographic, Generic Terms And Initials Are Not Available
The National Association of Realtors launches .REALTOR today October 23 offering 500,000 domains to its members but geographic, generic terms and initials are not available. For example if you are named John Cooper Smith you …
Read More »Fegistry Wins .REALTY Auction For $5.6m, Outer Orchard .SALON For $5.1m & Amazon .SPOT For $2.2m
On 22 October 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; SALON, SPOT, and REALTY. …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Healthcare 1406, .Vet 648, .Army 202, .Navy 122, .Airforce 116
Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s first 5 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability …
Read More »TLD Registry, Of Chinese Online & Chinese Website, Featured In IoN Magazine
Arto Isokoski is CEO of TLD Registry, operator of two new gTLD IDNs in Chinese, .在线 (Chinese Online) and, .中文网 (Chinese Website) is featured on page 10 of the October edition of the domain industry’s IoN …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-21-2014): Pallion.com $4,500, Manicurist.com $3,211
I did a report on all .NYC domain registrations from the 1st day of general availability. Among other things I found that 22% Of Registrants Bought Only 1 Domain Each and that 3% Of Registrants …
Read More »Flippa Adds New Feature: Website Classifieds
Flippa‘s latest new feature is the Website Classifieds. Here are the 3 things you need to know about Website Classifieds: 1. Fast and simple: This is a brand new way to buy and sell websites, …
Read More ».NYC: 22% Of Registrants Bought Only 1 Domain Each, 3% Of Registrants Bought 30% Of All Domains
.NYC launched on Wednesday the 8th of October. I wanted to find who bought what domains and how many domain names were bought by each registrant. .NYC didn’t get the results some people were expecting …
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