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• Mobile Ad Spending Will Surpass Desktop by 2022

  

  Desktop currently outpaces mobile advertising by a few percentage points. But Statista published a piece that by 2022 mobile will outpace desktop for the first... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Flippa Changing Pricing Again

  

  In May I wrote about Flippa changing their pricing and it looks like they have done it again. It looks like a better deal to list a domain which was $15 and... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Who is Your Number 2?

  

  Second favorite domain extension Looking around the industry it seems some are bullish on one word .co, others .io, Rob Monster has a big thread on Namepros... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• “he Can Only Talk His Crap to the Dumb Poor and Deluded”

  Do you follow and read Rick Schwartz? One Namepros member believes you are dumb, poor and deluded. So yesterday Donuts started tweeting at Rick Schwartz and... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by Kama.co

  Sedo released their weekly sales report and Kama.co led the way at 20,000 Euros, ($22,151). PC.org was second at $20,500 and PageView.com was third at $19,988. ... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• NameJet/Snapnames October Sales Report Led by KnowYourStuff.org

  

  Web.com released their NameJet/Snapnames monthly sales report for October. KnowYourStuff.org led the way at $30,600. CFAH.org was second at $24,300.... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Bidding War for Gambling-law-us.com Just Ended at $57,000

  The bidding was fast and furious for about 20 minutes on Gambling-law-us.com. The name closed at $57,000. The 16 year old domain was another link profile play... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Supply.co Gets $300,000 Deal on Shark Tank

  

  So back on October 16, Patrick Coddou announced his company was making the move from GetSupply.com to Supply.co. The back and forth on Twitter was interesting,... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• How To Value Organic Traffic

  

  Dan Fries wrote an interesting article on how to value organic traffic. Dan wrote the article with a slant on valuation as it pertains to a website acquisition. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Three Halloween Domain Names Developed and Doing Business

  

  Today is Halloween and here is a look at three Halloween based domain names that all have been built out and are doing real business. Halloween. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – GoDaddy Auctions 2019 Edition

  

  Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at man... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Look Back at the Sites That Went with the “smarter” New Gtlds

  

  So I came across an old post on Key-Systems.net that dealt with new gtlds. The title of the article, “These 87 sites dropped their .com for a smarter new TLD... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by Flexable.com

  Sedo reported their weekly sales and Flexable.com led the way at $19,800. Flipped from prior this year when it was caught at DropCatch and sold for $1,830. It... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Escrow.com Releases Sales Data for Q3 2019

  

  Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index report for Q3-2019 – The total value of domain names transacted rose to US$69.3 million in Q3 2019, up from... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Facebook Going After Hosts of Hacking Sites

  

  CNET published an article about Facebook taking action against OnlineNIC and ID Shield. They are not filing UDRP’s but rather copyright lawsuits. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Parent Alphabet Misses on Q3 Earnings – Stock Down in After Hours Trading

  

  Alphabet Inc the parent of Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) reported earnings after the close and earnings missed expectations. Shares of Alphabet hit a new all... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Defunct News Site Examiner.com Now Heating up at GoDaddy Expired Auctions

  

  The expired auction for Examiner.com is already flying, closing in on $70,000 with over a week to go. From wikipedia: Examiner. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Trump Beats Biden to TodosConBiden.com

  

  The BBC published a piece about political domain names. It seems that the Trump administration decided to register the domain name TodosConBiden.com. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Me Registry Looking to Sell Close to 3,000 Premium Names Through Afternic

  

  The .me registry will be releasing close to 3,000 premium domains starting October 30, 2019. In a blog post they outlined the process for purchasing these names... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Earnings for Q3 2019 Beat Expectations

  

  VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported earnings today. They showed earnings per share of $1.36 on revenue of $308.4M. This was better than analyst projections.... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 BUSINESS, TECH