Startups without the optimal domain name face an uphill marketing battle. Choosing a hard-to-spell name that fails the “Radio Test” is the number one problem, followed by not having the exact match .com domain. Seventy-nine …
Read More »GoDaddy Purchases The Domain GDDY.com Through Right of the Dot
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced it has bought the domain name GDDY.com that correspondents to its New York Stock Exchange ticker. When visited, GDDY.com takes individuals to GoDaddy’s Investor Relations page, enabling anyone to quickly …
Read More »18 One-Character .se Domains Up For Auction (j.se, q.se, v.se, 0.se, 1.se etc.)
.SE, the Swedish ccTLD, has decided to allow registration of .se domain names with only one character. The most attractive domain names will be released through an auction on Tradera. The 18 .se domains up …
Read More »Minds+Machines Wants $75,000 For Get.fit, Active.fit, Workout.fit & LosAngeles.fit
The .Fit New gTLD is launching today. I received an email from Minds + Machines, the registry that owns the new extension, announcing the launch and I was curious to see how much the domain …
Read More »CentralNic Doubles Revenue In 2014
Internet platform business and backend TLD provider CentralNic announced that it doubled its revenue in 2014, to £6.07mln from £3.05mln in 2013. The group finished 2014 with 3
Read More »Jeff Sass Of .Club: “This is an expansion to the TLD program, not a transition away from .com.”
Jeff Sass, the Chief Marketing Officer of .Club, delivered yet another great presentation on the 2nd day of the Domaining Europe 2015 Conference in Valencia, Spain. Jeff Sass, who has been very busy marketing .club …
Read More »Sedo Adds Feature That Allows You To Auction Your Domains Whenever You’d Like
Sedo announced today it’s latest feature: Sedo’s Direct Auction. You can now auction off your domain names at Sedo any time. Just choose the starting time and your desired reserve price – that’s it! No …
Read More »New gTLDs Accounted For 21% Of The Net Growth Of Domain Names In 2014
New gTLDs accounted for 21% of the net growth of the domain name market in 2014. “The recent publication of the ICANN reports for the month of December 2014 enables us to finally take stock …
Read More »Domaining Europe In Valencia, Spain – Day 2 (recap and photos)
Domaining Europe 2015 continued on Friday 24th of April in Valencia, Spain and the Sorolla Palace Hotel. The 7th European Conference was the biggest European Domaining Conference with over 20 International Speakers and over 120 …
Read More »Freelancer Acquires Escrow.com For $7.5 Million USD Cash
Freelancer Limited, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Escrow.com from a private investor for
Read More »Braden Pollock Buys The Domain Name Pleasure.com
Braden Pollock, a well known domainer and owner of Legal Brand Marketing, revealed during a Domaining Europe session that he recently bought the domain name Pleasure.com. The domain name was bought through a broker for …
Read More »Flippa Weekly Domain Sales: NUP.com $25,000, Deleting.com $6,000
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name NUP.com that was sold for $25,000. Quieter week, en route to $75,000+ in sales (including those privatized). .IOs continued to show strength, with Rank.io selling …
Read More »Domaining Europe In Valencia, Spain – Day 1 (recap and photos)
Domaining Europe 2015 started yesterday in Valencia, Spain and the Sorolla Palace Hotel. The 7th European Conference is the biggest European Domaining Conference with over 20 International Speakers and over 120 participants from 20 countries, …
Read More »Minds + Machines Registry Struggles With Only 63,000 Domains Over 13 New gTLDs
Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update on its portfolio of generic top-level domains and registrar operations ahead of the Company’s year-end financials. The purpose of the update is to: provide shareholders with a …
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