Namejet released it’s August 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 95 (82 last month) domains for $743,969 ($509,926 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …
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Daily Domain Sales (9-18-2014): Tasks.com $130,000, NUS.com $28,900
I had 4 inquiries for New gTLD domains in a day. 2 for .ninja domains and one each of a .social and a .tips domain. It seems that things are picking up for New gTLDs. …
Read More »Sedo’s Report From The Dmexco Conference: 90% Visitors Never Heard Of New gTLDs
Sedo published a report on the dmexco 2014 Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference that was held in Cologne Germany. The conference had 32,000 visitors and Sedo along with representatives from Famous Four Media, Donuts, DotClub, …
Read More »Registry and Registrar Pricing Problems With .Website, .Host and .Press
I had made a landrush pre-order for the domain video.press. After landrush had ended I checked to see if I got the domain only to see that my pre-order had disappeared from my account and …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Website 6,342, .Press 800, .Host 780
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 3 New gTLD launches: Radix launched yesterday its first 3 New gTLD strings: .Website, .Host and .Press. .Website got the most registrations as expected and has …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-17-2014): BermudaHotels.com $10,252, foko.com $6,700
There were a lot of domains auctioned at Namejet yesterday. 8 domains sold for 4 figures and a lot more just under $1,000. Today a new report on ‘New gTLD registrar marker share’ attacks .xyz …
Read More ».Website Surpasses 6,500 Domains In First 4 Hours Of Launch
General availability launched today for three top-level domains: .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST. These TLDs entered General Availability with 80+ registrars onboard, including industry leaders like GoDaddy, eNom, OpenSRS, 1Api, 1&1, DomainMonster and Name.com. .WEBSITE surpassed …
Read More »Igloo.com Acquires Aftermarket.com
Igloo.com Limited, a Domain Brokerage & Consultancy Firm, has acquired the business of Aftermarket.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names, from Thought Convergence, Inc. This acquisition builds upon Igloo’s recent news …
Read More »Report On ‘Registrar New gTLD Market Share’ Attacks .XYZ and Network Solutions
“Perhaps it is better to be the leader on a few high-potential TLDs than to be in “pole position” on a TLD artificially inflated by short-term promotional tactics.” OUCH! This is a conclusion of the …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: Church 4044, .Guide 3387, .Life 2016., .Loans 632, .Republican 385
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 5 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs were out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability on Wednesday: .Loans, .Life, …
Read More »Amazon Wins .Buy For $4.6m, M+M .VIP For $3m and Dot Tech .Tech For $6.8m
On 17 September 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; BUY, TECH, and VIP. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-16-2014): IKT.com $16,000, kfz24.de 11,500 EUR
I was bidding on a domain at Go Daddy auctions and there was one bidder that was increasing the bid by $10 on my proxy bid every 5 minutes. It is very frustrating because the …
Read More »New Domains, Growing Pains And The .Sexy Bus
Uniregistry has 2 buses going around Los Angeles, California with a .Sexy ad on them: http://areyou.sexy. The ad was a great idea as it will increase New gTLD recognition to all kinds of people on the …
Read More ».Organic Announces 6 Pioneer Brands And Participates At Natural Products Expo in Baltimore
Afilias today announced that six leading organic brands are participating in the .ORGANIC domain pioneer program and plan to launch .ORGANIC sites soon. These brands include: Rodale Institute — Organic pioneers since 1947, the Rodale Institute …
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