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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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Yahoo Reports Earnings in Line and Down 2.3% After Hours
Alphabet (Nasdaq:GOOGL) reported strong earnings and the stock hit a new high on the way to becoming the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. Read more
Posted on 02 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Namejet.com Reports Almost $2.5 Million In Domain Sales In January
Namejet.com reported almost $2.5 Million dollars in domain name sales in January 2016. Only domain names that sold for $2,000 or more are included as are only... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Alphabet Reports Strong Earnings up $40 in After Hours Trading
Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL) the parent company of Google reported earnings after the bell today. The company has become the most valuable publicly traded... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Former Industry Blog WannaDevelop.com Closes Today on Go Daddy Auctions
WannaDevelop.com was a blog that was run by Mike Cohen, while talking about things like mini and mega site development, the blog also posted about the domain... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single...
We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains
Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the . Read more
Posted on 27 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led by Rostrum.com
589 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 64% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
US Bank New Ad Campaign Around “The Power Of Possible”; .Com Owned T StatOil.com
According to MediaPost.com “U.S. Bank has launched its most extensive brand-building campaign to date around the phrase, “The Power of Possible” including TV,... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rightside Lays Off “Around 6% of It’s Employees”
I received several reports over the weekend that Rightside (NAME) laid off some of its work staff late last week. I reached out to Taryn Naidu CEO of Rightside... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions Are Open
According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
After 11 Years Victoria Beckham Gets Her Typo .Com Domain: VictoriaBeckam.com
A UDRP panel just award the typo domain name VictoriaBeckam.com to the former Spice Girl and the wife of David Beckham whose website is Victoriabeckham. Read more
Posted on 25 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Blocked 780 Million Bad Ads in 2015
Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O’Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Green Is Raising $3.5 Million Through CrowdFunding
DotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today in a press release we received, the launch of an Internet... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
All Single Character .Car Domains Are Registered: Here Are the Available .Cars
I did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World
According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Report: Ad Fraud to Cost Advertisers $7.2 Billion in 2016
Mike O’Brien wrote an article on Clickz that delved into just how much ad fraud is costing companies. The article referenced a study called The 2015 Bot Baselin... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Family; .Feedback
Earlier today we wrote about .Car, .Cars and .Auto which ended its first day of general availability with around 650 domain registrations. Two other new gTLD’s... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Car, .Cars & .Auto Hauls In Another Cool Million
The new gTLD’s .Car, .Cars and .Auto went into it’s first day of general availability (GA) yesterday a domain name could be registered on a first come, first... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions Total $1M; 61% BIN Led by HSZ.com For $65,580 Eur
Over the past week, 606 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Coke Unites Brands Under “Taste the Feeling” They Got Twitter Covered But Not Th...
Coca-Cola announced today that it has launched “its biggest marketing campaign in a decade, uniting its four brands under one new tagline: “Taste the Feeling”. Read more
Posted on 19 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH
