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• Poll Results: Less Than 20% Correctly Guessed How Many .Com Registrations There...

  A year ago on January 1, 2016 we started a poll asking the question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? On January 1, 2006 according to... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2017 BUSINESS, TECH

• Our Top 5 Posts for 2016

  Looking back at the posts that were written in 2016 that generated the most traffic here in 2016. Interestingly a post written in December of 2016 tops the list. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2017 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Look at How Domain Stocks Did in 2016, If You Owned Tucows You Were Very Happy

  2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much. Tucows was th... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• RETARDED.COM – Should This Domain Be Auctioned in the Largest Domain Industry...

  The question in the above headline is being asked on Namepros and quite a debate is breaking out. Some say business is business and think it’s fine, while other... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Com Registrations Loses Another 1 Million Domains In Less Than 2 Weeks; Now...

  

  It was just on December 16th that we reported that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign had dropped below 128 Million... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• One of The Biggest Gainers on The Stock Market Today Uses a New gTLD For Its...

  

  Shares of Vitality Biopharma (VBIO) are up over 50% today in trading and are up almost 300% in just a month. The company which is “dedicated to the development... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Are Search Engines Killing the Need for Memorable Domain Names ?

  

  Lindsay Gellman wrote an article for The Atlantic about domain names and them becoming less relevant in a world of superior search algorithms. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – NameJet

  

  “The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• NFL Drops Court Seized Domain NFLMVP.com and It’s Immediately Registered Again

  

  Back in 2013 the NFL seized a bunch of domain names under a court order for alleged selling fake NFL merchandise. A few weeks ago I noticed that one of such... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Godaddy/Namefind Sells 50 Three Character .Com Domains

  Godaddy/Namefind sold 50 three Character .Com Domains yesterday all to WDINCO of Holly Springs NC: c57.com c71.com c72.com c75.com c83.com c87.com d51.com... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Com Domain Registrations Back Under 128 Million

  

  Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base have fallen below 128 Million. Back in September of this year we reported... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• What Do You Want in 2017 ?

  

  As 2016 closes it out and we look ahead to 2017 this post is for readers to tell us and the industry, what do you want to see in 2017 ? What do you want to see... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Parent Co. of Sedo & 1and1 Buys Hosting Co. Strato From Deutsche Telekom for $62...

  United Internet, the parent company of Sedo 1and1.com among other companies, agreed to buy web hosting business Strato from Deutsche Telekom for around 600... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• White Castle Loses URS on WhiteCastle.space

  White Castle just lost case under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for the domain name WhiteCastle.Space and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD .Cam Launched Today; Has Only 207 Registrations Through Sunrise & EAP

  The New gTLD .Cam launched today into general availability. According to ntldstats.com there were about 80 Sunrise Applications by trademark holders for . Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Neustar Owner/Operator of .Co; .US & .Biz Acquired For $33.50 A Share

  Neustar, Inc. (NSR), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital in ... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by Bonus.net

  Sedo released their weekly sales and for the second week in a row .com was not the top sale. Bonus.net sold 14,875 Euros. Tyrexpert.com sold for $11,000 as the... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Moniker to Offer One Free .shop Domain Per Customer

  Moniker is currently running a promotion where you can register one free .shop domain. The offer extends only to non premium domains. You have to act by Decembe... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Look At How The Greatest Quarterback Of All Time Tom Brady Handles Domain Names

  

  It’s been my opinion for many years that Tom Brady is the best Quarterback that I have ever seen in my Long life. I’ve been watching football as long as I can... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Trump and Weed Trending in November According to Verisign

  Donald Trump was all over the November top 10 trending keywords published by Verisign. 7 of the top 10 trending keywords in .com were related to the President... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 BUSINESS, TECH