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• Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations Have Grown by 14.8 Million, Or 5.2 Percent,...

  Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out

  Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before the... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Com Laude Published Its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”

  

  Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com

  Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com’s At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction

  Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCo... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1 Million

  Over the past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 55 Three Letter .Com’s From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China

  I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Filed on Milano.com By Owner of Milano.com.mx

  

  The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of th... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion

  

  DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski

  Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot /... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month

  

  Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• For The 1st Time Registry Reserved .POKER Domains In Auction

  According to a press release we just received, Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, and RightOfTheDot (“ROTD”), a leader in Internet domain name... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts: We Are Not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions

  Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com’s

  Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com

  

  Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 Million Led by Tonic.com at $80,000

  Over the past week, 654 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4M. 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20%

  CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD’s Domains In Auction @ No Reserve

  Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD’s, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD’s,... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• My Sale to Godaddy

  By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million

  According to a report appearing in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH