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 …
Read More »83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains
Here are the results of the latest Law Times online poll. According to the poll, the majority of respondents aren’t too eager to register a .lawyer or a .attorney domain name for their websites. 83% …
Read More »WHOIS Accuracy Rates Improving Under 2013 RAA But At What Cost?
WHOIS Accuracy Rates are slowly improving, as reflected in the latest Preliminary Findings paper [PDF, 668 KB] published by the National Opinion Research Council (NORC) at the University of Chicago. These findings suggest that there …
Read More »GOV.UK Gets 8 Million Unique Visitors Per Week And Reaches 1 Billion Visits In Total
The United Kingdom government’s GOV.UK website gets just over eight million visits every week on average the Cabinet Office announced. Launched 2 years ago, GOV.UK brings together government services and information online. As the first …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-19-2014): iWire.com $7,777, the-dating-directory.net $4,275
Apparently “i” domains are still selling even if Apple, the “i” king, is slowly moving away from “i” products. The domain name DerrickRose.com sold for $834 yesterday at Go Daddy auctions. Derrick Rose is one …
Read More »Bluehost Runs Breast Cancer Campaign At Pink.Host (And Will Also Get Blue.Host)
Bluehost is turning Pink this entire month. October is the month for breast cancer awareness and Bluehost is running a special campaign for it on an alternate URL www.pink.host, pink being the color of solidarity …
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