The tech .NYC premium domain auction was held at Snapnames and 18 of the 26 domains sold. Web.nyc and Startup.nyc were the top sellers. The 18 domains sold for a total of $28,872. The average …
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DigitalTown partners with .London domains to launch Smart.London
DigitalTown, Inc. announced a major strategic partnership with Dot London Domains Limited and Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), operators of the .LONDON top-level domain name. The ambitious partnership aims to align the .LONDON domain extension, …
Read More »Rightside results: Q1 2017 revenue down, registry domain renewal rate at 59%
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017. Total revenue decreased to $14.4 million compared to $16.6 million. The final registry renewal rate for the fourth quarter of …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: jumbo, solar, visit, spinner
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keyword in the .com …
Read More »Happy birthday .CLUB! (video)
.Club domain names are celebrating their 3rd anniversary and they have published a video displaying a small sample of their journey so far. “It is hard to believe, but it has already been three years …
Read More »Verisign ends 1st quarter of 2017 with 143.6 million .com and .net domain names
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial and domain name registration results for the first quarter of 2017. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2016 was 67.6 percent compared with …
Read More »New gTLD study: a new domain name with enough content and links can compete with .com and .org
The Domain Name Association (The DNA) announced today the results of its commissioned study titled “Hidden Advantages of a Relevant Domain Name” to understand the impact top-level domain name extensions (TLDs) may have on organic …
Read More »Minds + Machines reports final results for 2016
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2016. Commenting on the results Toby Hall, CEO of MMX said: “To understand the key market drivers of the …
Read More »Rust or Bust! WHD Global and the JFK.club (VIDEO)
The .CLUB team was at the WHD.global conference in Rust, Germany. The conference took place in the Europa-Park in March 25-31, 2017. Attendees came from industries spanning hosting and cloud services (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), …
Read More »Minds + Machines gets order for 90,000 domain name registrations
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported today orders for approximately 90,000 standard name registrations across certain of its US and European facing top-level domains valued at approximately US$500,000. The company said that these …
Read More »Boston Ivy will drop the premium domain renewal prices in .Broker, .Forex, .Markets, .Trading
Boston Ivy announced that it will be dropping the premium renewal prices to standard for 4 of its New gTLDs: .Broker, .Forex, .Markets and .Trading. The change will take place on May 1st. Going forward …
Read More »5 Afilias extensions are now licensed for sale in China: .INFO, .MOBI, .PRO, .RED, and .KIM
Afilias, announced that the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued a formal statement that awards the .INFO, .MOBI, .RED, .PRO and .KIM Top Level Domains (TLDs) a license for sale in …
Read More »15 New gTLD domain name sales over $5,000
This is the latest New gTLD domain name sales report courtesy of Sold.Domains. Radix sold the domain name Casino.Online for $201,250. Rightside published a list of 53 domain sales from $10k up to $183k. The …
Read More ».Club makes more than $500,000 in domain name sales in Q1 2017
.CLUB sold a total of 475 premium domain names in Q1 via auctions, through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the registry, generating over $500,000 in total topline premium name sales for …
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