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• Afilias Says .Bet is 11th Most Registered New gTLD; But It’s Really 84th

  Afilias put out a press release earlier today claiming that one of it’s new gTLD’s .Bet which was just launched last week, already was the 11th most registered... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million Led by 1787.com

  Over the past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 63% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• HA.com Announces 42 Domains For Live Auction On April 19th: Quick.com, VE.com;...

  HA.com just released the 42 domain names it will be auctioning off live on April 19th in San Francisco. Bidding is now open at:... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand...

  Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• 89 of The Top 100 New gTLD Domain Holders Are From China

  We have chatted about the growing influence of Chinese domain investors in the domain industry before, however today I checked out ntldstats. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 3/7/16 Go Daddy up 2% – Rightside Down Another 4%

  Market Recap 3/7/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up 2% on the day where most were down. Rightside (NAME) was off close to another 4%. Tucows (TCX) was down 2.4% on the... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Spamhaus Publishes List of “10 Worst Top Level Domains”

  Spamhaus.org published today a list of the “10 Worst Top Level Domains” The list is “not a list of the worst TLDs in quantity, several other TLDs have far more... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .XYZ Holding Exclusive Premium Auction of 150 Domains With West.Cn Including...

  According to a press release we just received, “.XYZ is proud to announce that we have partnered with West.cn for a second time to host an exclusive .xyz premiu... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: .Com Passes 126 Million Domains For 1st Time

  

  According to Verisign, the number of .Com domains in the Domain Name Base passed 126 million. Verisign, the registry for the . Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 3/4/16 Tucows Bounces Back – Rightside off Close to 4%

  Market Recap 3/4/16 Rightside (NAME) was off close to 4% to $8.42. Verisign (VRSN) continued to close higher up another .50 to $89.14. Tucows (TCX) bounced... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Report: Verisign Gets Temporary Extension To Operate .Gov Registry

  According to FCW.com, the General Services Administration of the United States has awarded Verisign (VRSN) a $2.1 million bridge contract to continue as the... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD .Bet Gets Over 13K Registrations On 1st Day Of General Availability

  

  The new gTLD .Bet went live into general availability (GA) yesterday where domain names could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis and ended the day... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 3-3-16 Verisign up 1% – Tucows Down Another 2.6%

  Market Recap 3-3-16 Verisign (VRSN) was up today when most stocks in the group were down. The stock closed at $88.64 up 1.2%. Tucows (TCX) continued where it... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Radix Giving Free .HOST Domains to All WHMCS Customers

  According to a press release we just received Radix is giving all WHMCS clients the opportunity to register a .HOST domain name free of charge for the first yea... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Namejet.com Reports Almost $2.8 Million In Sales For February 2016

  Namejet.com has posted its February 2016 sales data . In all Namejet.com sold 287 domain names for $2k and above for a total of $2,787,626. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Transactions Total $1.2M; 61% Were Buy It Now

  Over the past week, 698 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 3/2/16 Rightside up 2% – Tucows off 3%

  Maeket Recap 3/2/16 Quiet day where most stocks were up or down half a percent. Rightside (NAME) was up 2.2% which equates to .19. Tucows (TCX) was down 3% wher... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Are Domains The New Bitcoin?

  One of those in the domain industry whose opinion I greatly respect, Alan Dunn, has made a lot of inroads in equating the value of domain names to commodities a... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Club To Hold No Reserve Numeric Auction on 4.CN

  

  For the very first time, China’s prestigious domain auction platform 4.cn will be holding a dedicated auction for a single new domain extension – .CLUB. This... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 3/1/16 Big Day for Alphabet and Verisign

  Market Recap 3/1/16 Big day for Alphabet (GOOGL) up 3.4% which is alot for a company with close to a half a trillion market cap. Verisign (VRSN) was up $2.89... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2016 BUSINESS, TECH