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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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Wikipedia’s Traffic From Google is in Decline
Apparently Wikipedia is losing traffic that it receives organically from Google. Founder Jimmy Wales confirmed that traffic is down and that it has been going o... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sorry Google The .XYZ Registry is Not For Sale
Reuters.com, is reporting, despite some rumors in the domain space that the .XYZ registry is going to be bought by Google, after its purchase of abc.xyz, the CE... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
BitcoinWallets.com is Live
Back in February of 2014 BitcoinWallet.com sold for $250,000. Coin Desk reported on the story, Younts, who confirmed the sale to CoinDesk but declined to... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 23K Uniregistry .LOL Domains Now U...
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names just registered 23K domain names in Uniregistry’s .LOL new gTLD domain name extension. We noted that . Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donald Trump May Own Over 3K Domains But Doesn’t Own Trump.org & Isn’t Happy...
Several mainstream websites recently wrote about how many domain names the Trump Organization owns, including BusinessInsider.com that said the Trump... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
THE Domain Conference Opens Up Nominations For 2015 Domain Industry Awards Today
The Organizers of THE Domain Conference announced this morning that Nominations are now open for the 2015 Domain Industry Awards “which will be presented to... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
U.K. Advertisers Looking for a Universal Definition for Ad Fraud
With a recent study by Integral Ad Science, claiming bot traffic cost advertisers as much as £277m a year in the UK alone, with 12.2 per cent of all ad... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Steve Kaziyev of City Partners and Your Brand Discusses .NYC Purchases.
Steven Kaziyev is a New York based domain investor who operates sites at CityPartners.com, YourBrand.com, and DomainCrunch.com (I do write at Domain Crunch).... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
$250K+ In Domain Sales? Frank Schilling Sells Floid.com To Revlon & Tonix.com...
Frank Schilling has sold 3, five letter .com domain names and at least two of them went to large companies! The 3 domains were all sold about the same time as... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Centralnic Passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names
According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains.... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Soccer Star Lionel Messi Files UDRP Seeking Control of 2 Domains Including...
The Soccer Star Lionel Messi, who may regard to be the best Soccer player in the world, has Filed UDRP Seeking Control of two Domain names Messi.com and... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Yahoo! Inc. Sells 2 Letter Domain Name AV.com
Yahoo! Inc. has sold the premium 2 letter domain name AV.com according to whois records. The domain name has transferred to domain name registrar eName. Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Breaking: 8.xyz Hits the DOMAINfest .asia Auction at No Reserve
The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th.... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
A Band You Never Heard Of Bitches About Having To Pay For Pavement.com Or The...
A interesting story in contactmusic.com, about a band from the 90’s name Payment is bitching about not being able to simply get the domain name Pavement. Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Another New gTLD For Google: Buys/Registered Premium Domain ABC.Global
Google has bought another new gTLD for its Alphabet brand which is using the domain name abc.xyz Google registered/bought the premium domain name ABC.Global... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Autobytel Buys Dealix, Owner Of UsedCars.com In $25 Million Deal
Publicly traded Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL) has acquired Dealix, owner of UsedCars.com for $25 Million in an all cash deal. The registrant for the domain... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Report: Traffic to Alphabet.com Surges 5,000%; ABC.XYZ Gets 4 Million Visits in ...
According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday. The Telegraph siting stats from... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Didn’t Even Contact BMW To Offer To Buy Alphabet.com
According to a story today in the KansasCity.com, it seems that Google did not even contact BMW, that owns the domain name Alphabet.com, to see if they would... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Negari of .XYZ On Bloomberg TV On Dominance of .Com: “I Think It’s Over”
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domainer Merlin Kauffman’s Soothe Startup Picks up $10.6M In New Funding
Domain investor Merlin Kauffman's startup Soothe has picked up $10.6 Million in new funding for his on-demand massage service. Read more
Posted on 12 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
