Flippa today announced that it has acquired the domain name brokerage company, Domain Holdings Group, based in Florida, USA. The combined Flippa and Domain Holdings Group entities are projected to hit $70m in sales over …
Read More »Famous Four Media Reaches 500,000 Domain Name Registrations
Earlier today, the number of domain names in Famous Four Media registries surpassed half a million. This equates to nearly 10% of all domains registered under ICANN’s new gTLD program. Of course the number includes …
Read More »The Pirate Bay Lost ThePirateBay.se & PirateBay.se – Moves To 6 Other ccTLDs
The Pirate Bay will soon be leaving the Swedish ccTLD domain name (thepiratebay.se). The popular torrent website will move to various ccTLDs around the world. TorrentFreak.com reported that earlier today the Stockholm District Court ordered …
Read More »XYZ Buys .Car From Google & Joins Uniregistry To Run .Cars, .Car, & .Auto
Tema XYZ teamed-up with Uniregistry, to join forces and launch .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. Uniregistry and Team XYZ issued a press release, announcing the trifecta of new domain extensions that will represent the automotive industry. …
Read More »Donuts Releases Over 1 Million Domain Names (including 2-character domains)
Donuts announced the approaching availability of more than one million previously unavailable web addresses across its top-level domains. These represent some of the most highly sought after and desirable web addresses in Donuts’s portfolio, including …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Name Registration & Selling Strategy
I was researching to buy a few domain names from a Donuts New gTLD that is launching this week. After doing some searching I found that the best domains are not available at any price. …
Read More »And The Contest Winner Is…
Last week I asked you to guess the purchase price of a domain name I bought back in 2011. I believe that most people guessed what I would pay for it and not the actual …
Read More »Rick Schwartz – I Am Waiting For His Next Post With His Biggest Fan
When I subscribed to be notified of new comments on Rick Schwartz’s article called “The Rick Schwartz Equation”, I never expected it to be one of the last posts he made on his blog. He …
Read More »Top 10 Trending Keywords in .COM & .Net Registrations in April
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of April 2015 were published by Verisign. The biggest surprise is that there is not a single keyword that is both on …
Read More »Domain Holdings Q1 Report 2015: 75% .com, 3.13% New gTLDs (good or bad?)
Domain Holdings reported its Q1 results showing $4.75MM in total domain name sales. ($4,754,109) While most transactions are protected under confidentiality agreements, Domain Holdings can share the collective data to help investors understand trends, highlight …
Read More »GoDaddy Q1 2015 Report: $376.3 Million Revenue, $199.2 Million Domains Revenue, Up 10.4%
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. “Our investments in products, technology platform, and customer care are making a real difference for our customers around the world, and …
Read More »A Few Thoughts On My $50,000 New gTLD Domain Name Purchases
Last week I shared my experience buying $50,000 worth of New gTLD domain names in the past year. That sparked a lot of comments both in my post and on a thread on the NamePros.com …
Read More »Do You Think I Would Buy A 7-Figure Domain Name From a Gmail Email Address?
I got an email with a great .com domain name in the subject. I opened it just because I was curious and not because I was expecting anything from the email. What I got was …
Read More »Go Daddy: “Register your domain name – before someone else does” (Infographic)
Go Daddy published a very interesting infographic on its small business blog. “Politicians and celebrities are making headlines for domain names they DIDN’T register — opening the door for others to launch websites attached to …
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