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, …
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“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 …
Read More »New .COM & .NET Video Campaign by Verisign
Verisign, the registry operator for .com, .net and other domain names, is releasing a series of short, humorous videos this month promoting .com and .net domain names You can see the first 2 videos, Cake in …
Read More »Afilias To Raise $100 Million By Entering The London Stock Exchange
Afilias announced its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) and to conduct a placing …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-20-2014): BlueMix.com $14,500, PartyKing.dk 3,500 EUR
I really wish that Rick would start blogging again. Do you? Go Daddy and Sedo had a lot of 4-figure sales yesterday and 1 5-figure sale: BlueMix.com for $14,500. Click here to see domain sale …
Read More ».AU Report: 2.9 Million Domains, 6% Growth, 43% Of Domains Are Under 2 Years Old
A new report on .au, the Australian ccTLD, reveals that almost 50 percent of all .au domain names are between nine and 15 characters in length, while New South Wales claims the honour of the …
Read More »4 Months Without Rick
No, Rick is not dead. He very much alive but he has stopped blogging and I am a bit sad because of this. It is almost 4 months that Rick Schwartz wrote his last post …
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