Monthly Archives: August 2014

Thu 14th August 2014
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For The 1st Time, There Are More Than 114 Million .Com Domain Names … - According to Verisign, (VRSN) which operates the .Com and .Net registry,  the number of .Com domain names passed the 114 Million mark for the first time in history today. The number of .Com domain names according to the Verisign Daily Zone Count is 114,017,341. Just a few days ago Verisign published the Domain Industry Brief for the 1st Quarter of 2014. According to the report, as of March 31, Verisign reported there were 113.2 Million registered .Com domain names. So the number of registered .Com ... read more ...
 
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For The 1st Time, There Are More Than 114 Million .Com Domain Names Registered - According to Verisign, (VRSN) which operates the .Com and .Net registry,  the number of .Com domain names passed the 114 Million mark for the first time in history today. The number of .Com domain names according to the Verisign Daily Zone Count is 114,017,341. Just a few days ago Verisign published the Domain Industry Brief for the 1st Quarter of 2014. According to the report, as of March 31, Verisign reported there were 113.2 Million registered .Com domain names. So the number of registered .Com ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy justification IPO filing, reports Q2 results - Company continues to grow revenue as it heads toward IPO. GoDaddy released its second quarter financial results today through an amended S-1 Initial Public Offering filing with the SEC. Q2 2014 revenue came in at $338.5M, up from $276.0M in the same quarter of 2013 and $320.2M in Q1 2014. The net loss for the quarter was $37.5 million, worse than the $35.3 million loss it turned in during the second quarter of 2013 but better than the $51.3M loss in the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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A garland of domain names sell for $1.5 million, arrange of… - Domain names change hands, but not with cash. The domain names manufacturedhome.com, manufacturedhomes.com, manufacturedhouse.com, manufacturedhomes.net and modularhomes.com have been sold for over $1 million. Sort of. There’s a bit of a backstory. The seller is SearchCore, a company that, until recently, was in the business of creating directory and lead gen sites. Before that, the company was known as WeedMaps. It had a directory for marijuana sellers, but sold ... read more ...
 
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This week’s lapsed domain name sales roundup - Along the way to yesterday’s $20k sale of EnRoute.com, GoDaddy expired auctions zigzagged through some desirable addresses and took a few weird detours. Two domains that attracted me personally were the self-explanatory GenerateLeads.com ($8k) and Masker.com ($2.7k), which suits various privacy services and also describes a guest at a masquerade. Other bidding results appear to be more about the link profiles of past websites than due to the quality of the domain ... read more ...
 
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Medical domain names all underneath 2,000 registrations after initial day - No surprises in initial launches of four medical-themed domain names. As I previewed earlier this week, the only four domain names entering true general availability this week were medical-themed domains from Donuts. Here are how many domains are registered in each of the four after the first day, based on zone file numbers: .Dental 1,971 .Clinic 1,447 .Care 1,395 .Surgery 536 The numbers are about where I expected them to be. As I mentioned earlier this week, three ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Suit Filed Against BestRegistrar Over “Ransom” to Transfer Over 5K Domains Out - A company has filed a federal lawsuit against the company that owns the ICANN accredited registrar, BestRegistrar.com a few alleged resellers of BestRegistrar and the owners of the company that owns Bestregistrar.com, to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by Simon Property Group (SPG), and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Only 3% of New gTLD Domain Names Are Resolving To Business Websites - Verisign issued a report on new gTLD registrations through June 29, 2014, finding that 41% of all new gTLD registrations are parked and only 3% of New gTLD Domain Names Are resolving to Business Websites. Of course Verisign operates the .com and .net registries and have a lot  to lose in the new gTLD world, yet the numbers are the numbers. The report entitled Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs: “We thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Chat.Fr for 99,999 Euro; ecal.com $25K; Havana.club during 8K - Sedo reported that over the past week, 527 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million, 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by Chat.fr which sold for 99,999 Euro’s (about $134,000) and Chat.de which sold for 65,000 Euro’s (about $87,000). The buyer of both domain names is Xedoc Holding, SA which is a large adult domain name owner. There appears to be no reason the .de sold for any less than the .fr I think its just ... read more ...
 
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Warning: WOI.com Reported Stolen - The three letter domain name WOI.com has been reported stolen. The domain name was at Godaddy until just a few days ago registered to a Bernard Naiborhu of Jakarta, when it moved over to the domain name registrar, eName Technology Co.,Ltd. of China WOI.com is now registered to: Admin Name: linyu Admin Organization: xia men yi ming wang luo you xian gong si Admin Street: zhen zhu wan ruan jian yuan Nice whois record. We sold the domain name last year through Afternic.com and the domain was transferred ... read more ...
 
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1 & 2 Character.GD and .VG Domains Will Be Charged A Higher Registration Fee - The registry for the .GD and .VG ccTLD announced today that beginning on September 2, 2014,  all 1 and 2 character domains under .GD and .VG will be considered as premium domain names and will be charged with a higher domain registration fee. The renewal fee for these domains will remain on standard pricing. Currently registered 1 and 2 character domain names will remain registered to their domain holders until deletion by them and will be renewed on standard pricing. After the deletion these domain ... read more ...
 
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1 & 2 Character.GD and .VG Domains Will Be Charged A Higher Registration Fee - The registry for the .GD and .VG ccTLD announced today that beginning on September 2, 2014,  all 1 and 2 character domains under .GD and .VG will be considered as premium domain names and will be charged with a higher domain registration fee. The renewal fee for these domains will remain on standard pricing. Currently registered 1 and 2 character domain names will remain registered to their domain holders until deletion by them and will be renewed on standard pricing. After the deletion these domain ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Earnings Call: gTLD’s & ccTLD’s Increase Margins & They Bank Money … -   In the earnings call Tucows (TCX) which reported earnings yesterday revealed some interest facts and figures. In general profit margins from domain name is increase due to new gTLD’s and ccTLD’s, sales of domains are slowing, and Tucows revealed they had a minority interest in an application for .group which lost a private auction. While those funds won’t be booked until Tucows 3rd Quarter, Tucows increased their guidance of profit for the 3Q by by $1 Million Here are the highlights: “As ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Earnings Call: gTLD’s & ccTLD’s Increase Margins & They Bank Money Off .Group -   In the earnings call Tucows (TCX) which reported earnings yesterday revealed some interest facts and figures. In general profit margins from domain name is increase due to new gTLD’s and ccTLD’s, sales of domains are slowing, and Tucows revealed they had a minority interest in an application for .group which lost a private auction. While those funds won’t be booked until Tucows 3rd Quarter, Tucows increased their guidance of profit for the 3Q by by $1 Million Here are the highlights: “As ... read more ...
 
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5 mn domain names added to internet in Q1CY14 - Five mn domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 mn globally all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2014, Verisign, domain names and internet security solutions provider, said. Worldwide registrations have grown by 19.3 mn, or 7.5 percent, year-over-year and the rise of five mn domain names globally equates to 1.7 percent growth over the fourth quarter of 2013. The .com and .net ... read more ...
 
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Internet marketer goes to prison, registers his invalid series as domain name - Well known online marketer starts a blog that uses his inmate number. You might not know Shawn Hogan by name, but it’s possible you’ve heard about him. He runs the Digital Point marketing forum. He also made a mint from affiliate marketing. How he made much of that money in affiliate marketing ended up landing him in prison. He made tens of millions of dollars from eBay’s affiliate program, but eBay later said that he did it by cookie stuffing. Hogan alleged ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Shell and other finish users bought final week - Shell buys a .IN, liquor company buys a .club. Shell Oil is among the big companies that bought domain names last week at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this report. Chat.fr and Chat.de 99,999 EUR and 65,000 EUR – I’m not sure if I should clasify these as under user purchases because the buyer is domain investor Xedoc. However, I imagine the domains were purchased ... read more ...
 
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Amazon launches Square competitor, snaps adult 100 domain names - Company registered 100 related domain names ahead of latest product launch. Today Amazon.com launched Amazon Local Register, a mobile credit card merchant solution similar to Square. Yesterday the company registered close to 100 new domain names for the new service, by my count. Of the companies I track, Amazon does the most defensive domain name registrations when it releases new products. The company has over 35,000 registered domain names. These domains will ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 3% of new TLD registrations enclose business websites - Parked domains make up the bulk of new TLD registrations. Verisign analyzed registrations of new top level domain names to determine how second level registrations under these new domain names are being used. The analysis determined that just 3% of domains registered so far are being used for a “business website” and the majority of domains are parked: The breakdown is much more nuanced than what the company presents about its own TLDs, .net and .com. When it ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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Tucows Hits 52 Week High & Reports Earnings - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014 in a day that saw intraday 52 week high for the shares. Tucows.com closed at $16.20 a share after hitting an intraday 52 week high of $16.33 per shares. Yummy domain sold less than $1 Million in domains for the quarter Summary Financial Results(In Thousands of US Dollars, Except Per Share Data) Net earnings per common share reflects the 1-for-4 reverse split of common shares that became effective ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Worldwide domain name registrations up by 19.3M - With an increase of 7.5 percent or 19.3 million in worldwide registrations, the base of registered domain names has grown to 276 million worldwide year-over-year, while .com TLD remains to be most popular extension accounting for 113.2 million domain names, claims Verisign. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief report, 5 million domain names have been registered just in the first quarter ending as of March 31, 2014, equating to a growth rate of 1.7 percent over Q4 2013. Around ... read more ...
 
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As .Clinic Launches Into General Availability Tomorrow Here are The Taken Domains - The new gTLD .Clinic launches tomorrow into general availability here are the more interesting domains that were taken in Sunrise or Early Access Program (EAP) and therefore will not be available: 24hour.clinic airway.clinic alabamaallergy.clinic asthmacontrol.clinic autism.clinic babyscan.clinic bitcoin.clinic boi.clinic bone.clinic breath.clinic brisbane.clinic childcustody.clinic dermatology.clinic detox.clinic diabetes.clinic doctors.clinic euro.clinic familytherapy.clinic harley.clinic hipandknee.clinic hormone.clinic hypnosis.clinic implant.clinic keith.clinic kids.clinic lung.clinic male.clinic marijuana.clinic marriagecounseling.clinic medicalmarijuana.clinic meds.clinic mycare.clinic networking.clinic nose.clinic nutrition.clinic oncologist.clinic onsite.clinic ortho.clinic paediatrics.clinic pets.clinic porn.clinic pretty.clinic psychiatry.clinic psychologist.clinic respiratory.clinic skincare.clinic sportsmed.clinic success.clinic target.clinic top.clinic ultrasound.clinic vascular.clinic virtual.clinic virtualpsychology.clinic walk-in.clinic weed.clinic which.clinic Some ... read more ...
 
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Summer time, sand in our hair, gTLDs in the air - ICANN ended the month of July with a bang, clearing and delegating the following new gTLDs: .lgbt .lacaixa .spiegel .nra .ngo .krd .whoswho .auction .yandex .praxi .ong .williamhill .healthcare .realtor .top Sundown approaches for some gTLDs The sunrise periods are set to close this month for the gTLDs that follow. Once a sunrise period closes for a new gTLD, the gTLD registry will enter into landrush and early access phases before proceeding to General Availability. ... read more ...
 
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Hey Philly — Or Rather, .philly — Get Ready For Top Level Do-Mania! - Whenevr ICANN schedules next window for TLD applications (possibly not for 2-3 yrs),Philadelphia must b ready 2 submit a .philly application — Campaign for .philly (@phillyTLD) August 9, 2014 Starting this summer, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may distribute upwards of 1,000 new top level domains to regions, cities, companies, and even nouns like “book” (.book), for which Amazon is competing with eight other companies. So, obviously, who better to jump on ... read more ...
 
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Domain Names Rise To A New High Of 276 Mln In Q1 : VeriSign - With zillions of people already on the Internet, a new report from VeriSign showed that the total number of  top level domains registered on the World Wide Web grew to 276 million in the first quarter, representing a 7.5 percent increase year-over-year.Five million domain names have been added to the Internet during the quarter, VeriSign said in a statement. The .com and .net TLDs grew to 128.5 million domain names.These domains grew 4 percent on a year on year basis. Out of the total .com sites, ... read more ...