Sometimes I am just amazed at how some companies do digital marketing. This is one of these days. The 2nd premium .nyc domain auction ends today and little effort has been given to promote the …
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Mike Mann shares his most trafficked domain names (Tasty .com, Office .co, etc)
Mike Mann shared the most trafficked domain names from his large collection. These 28 names (seen below) average about 2000 visitors per day while the top ones have about 10,000 visitors per day. The list has …
Read More »Fashion .NYC domain auctions end tomorrow and bids are disappointing
Fashion .NYC premium domain auctions end tomorrow at Snapnames and bids so far are disappointing. Only 7 of the 24 domains have bids and these bids are just above the $500 opening bid. Auctions.nyc and …
Read More »DomainMarket.com new domain brokerage and appraisals
Mike Mann just posted a lot of details on the new DomaiMarket.com domain brokerage and appraisal process on his Facebook page. You can see what we knew up to today (including how the landing page …
Read More »Trainer Heidi Powell loses cybersquatting claim (still tries to steal the domain HeidiPowell.com)
One Heidi Powell, a trainer, is trying to steal the domain name HeidiPowell.com from another Heidi Powell that has had it and have been using it since 2005. You may have heard this story before. …
Read More »The .org registry (PIR) is pausing development of “UDRP for copyright”
The .org registry made a short announcement that it is pausing development of the new dispute policy that many are calling “UDRP for copyright”. Public Interest Registry (PIR) has been developing the policy (called ”Systemic …
Read More »The usual dilemma! What is the best birthday gift? A domain name or a Sonos system?
So here is the usual dilemma that everybody has. (or may be not!) What should you buy your girlfriend or boyfriend as a birthday gift? Should you buy them a domain name or a Sonos …
Read More ».Media domain name sells for $20,500
A .media domain name was sold for $20,500 by a domain investor in a private transaction. The domain was registered on April 1st, 2016 but this is no April fools’ day joke. Seller of the …
Read More »Mike Mann’s latest domain acquisitions & sales (football .co, VanGoghsEar .com)
Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from January 2017. January was a busier month. There were 14 reported domain sales by Mike Mann in January worth a total …
Read More »Afilias thinks 2017 will be the year of dotBrand New gTLDs
Roland LaPlante, CMO of Afilias, explains in a video the value of owning a dotBRAND domain name extension for marketing campaigns and user security. Afilias is the .info registry and also the registry of several new …
Read More »Verisign pays $5 million annually for the rights to operate the .TV registry
Verisign pays $5 million annually to the Government of Tuvalu to be the sole registry operator of .TV. Verisign has the rights to sell .TV domain names up to December 31, 2021 that its contract …
Read More »The new Mike Mann premium domain brokerage (more details)
More details about the new Mike Mann premium .com domain name brokerage are coming out. Mike Mann made an announcement that he plans to allow people to sell their domain names on his domain name …
Read More »Video Documentary: “Selling Domain Names in China”
A glimpse of life on the road in China for those in the domain name industry. Follow key executives from ChopChop.Domains‘s parent company, TLD Registry, Ltd. (and their marketing partners from .CLUB) as they spread …
Read More ».EU has 3.76 million domains (renewal rate is 79% & other interesting statistics)
.EU published its Q4 2016 Progress Report that measures some interesting findings about the developments of the extension and the registrar community. During Q4 2016, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 32 655 domain …
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