VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the first quarter of 2019 closed with 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.1 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared …
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Rick Schwartz’s Asheville Meetup – Who is going…
Rick Schwartz is having a domain investor meetup at Asheville. See here details of the event and who is going to the “1st Annual Asheville Professional Domain Investors Meetup & Family Outing“. Date and Time: …
Read More »No, we can not rename New gTLDs
New gTLDs are called New gTLDs. Period. This is the only way the industry can understand what we are talking about. All other people just calls everything “domains” or a few people call them “new …
Read More »UK registrars angry with Nominet
More than 15 UK registrars are angry with Nominet’s proposed .uk right of registration (ROR) release process planned for 1st July – 5th July 2019. Over 3 million remaining .uk rights are set to be …
Read More »Google makes Mobile-First indexing the default for new domains
Google announced that it is making Mobile-First indexing the default for all new domains. Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing – Google’s crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot – Google’s analysis has …
Read More »Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name!
People are looking for real numbers regarding domain names so here they are! This is proof based on real business numbers. Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name! Simple …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 3 domains for $47,776 in April
Mike Mann reported selling 3 domain names in April for a total of $47,776. Prices started at $7,800 and went up to $40,000. Mike Mann sold 3 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …
Read More »CentralNic looking to again double in size in 2019
CentralNic is looking to again double in size in 2019 after “transformational” year. Ben Crawford, chief executive of CentralNic Group PLC (LON:CNIC), chats to Proactive London’s Andrew Scott following the release of their 2018 results. …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: drug, rehab, freedom, repro
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More ».Amazon domain names are getting closer
So after years of going back and forth it seems that the .Amazon domain name are getting closer to coming live soon. It seems that ICANN just ignored its own rules and the governments of …
Read More »CentralNic acquires Australian TPP Wholesale
CentralNic Group PLC (AIM: CNIC) announces it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the Sydney-based business TPP Wholesale that claims to be the leading Australian and New Zealand platform for resellers of domain …
Read More »Global domain name growth slows down
Global domain name growth has slowed down during the first quarter of 2019. That is not a concern to me as growth is bound to slow down sometime, especially for New gTLDs. We have enough …
Read More ».Blog leaves Nominet for CentralNic
The .Blog domain name registry, owned by Automatic and WordPress, has decided to leave Nominet for CentralNic regarding registry backend services. .Blog was launched using Nominet but the registry has decided to switch to CentralNic …
Read More »Escrow.com report: domain sales rise while developed websites hit an all-time high
Escrow.com released its Domain Investment Index for Q1 2019 that provides insight into the domain name market for the quarter as compared to previous quarters. The latest data from Escrow.com reveals a variety of factors …
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