Monthly Archives: March 2015

Mon 2nd March 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Yahoo Search Share Dips for February - Danny Sullivan discussed the February search share stats on Search Engine Land. Yahoo dipped after posting gains in the previous two months. The dip wasn’t that big but the company had some good momentum going over the previous two months. The data from StatCounter shows: Google: 78.7% (+0.1%) Yahoo: 10.1% (-0.1%) Bing: 9.8% (+0.1%) From the article: Yahoo’s share of search in the United States has dropped for the first time since it signed a deal to be the default search engine in Firefox. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top-Level Web Domain - What’s $25 million to Google (GOOG)? Apparently it’s not too much to pay to buy a top-level web domain, which the search conglomerate just did to snap up the exclusive rights to the .app appellation in an ICANN auction. Google bested 12 competitors, mostly notably Amazon (AMZN), for .app. Technically speaking, Google’s Charleston Road domain registry won the rights to the top-level .app domain for $25,001,000. ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Buys Rights to .App Top-Level Domain for $25M - Twenty-five million dollars seems cheap for a top-level domain—bet you didn't think you'd ever see someone say that. Still, when the top-level domain is dot app (.app), and just about every big player in technology has some vested interest in apps, one would have assumed that the ICANN auction for said top-level domain would have gone through the roof. Google prevailed in ICANN's public auction for the top-level domain, paying just a hair over $25M for the rights to .app. It's reportedly the highest ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just paid $25 million to buy .app Top-Level Domain - Now the .app top-level domain is completely bought and owned by Google Inc., the search engine giant bid for $25 million to buy the whole rights for the .app top-level domain. The top level domains are similar to .com, .org and .net, they will be at the part of each and every URL under that TLD. Nowadays, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is creating a host of new set of top-level domains and auctioning those domains for a bigger sum. Previously, Amazon has bought .buy ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ConnectingNYC.org releases some statistics on Dot Nyc - ConnectingNyc.org posted an article on the status of how things are doing so far with the Dot Nyc extension. The article went on to say there were two ways to measure the success of an extension. The standard way of success using metric and statistical data, and the other was to look at how it affected the community. Some of the metrics from the article: Traditional Metrics Let’s start with some stats on the number of .nyc domain names sold. As of February 22, the city’s contractor reported ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There be by a End of 2015 ? - The number of new gtld registrations stood at approximately 3.7 million to close out 2014. Our poll question for March is where do you see that number for 2015 ? The poll just went up and we did provide for choices that would show a contraction, so far half of the very small sample size has voted that way. Today according to nTLDStats the number is sitting around 4.4 million. It certainly makes sense that a lot of robo – registrations will not be renewed, some of the premium renewals will not ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
Google utratil 25 milionů dolarů za doménu .app - Společnost ICANN oznámila, že je Google oficiálním majitelem domény .app. V dnešní době se jedná o poměrně zajímavou, i když nelze říct zvláštní, investici. Google poté, co ponakupoval několik menších společností, se vydal na nákup domén. Domény jsou dnes ceněnou komoditou, protože každý web se chce odlišit od jiných stránek a zároveň by svou doménou rád vyjadřoval, jaký je jeho obsah. Google by například tuto doménu mohl použít pro svůj obchod ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
.app gehört jetzt Google - Google hat den bisher höchsten Preis für eine Top-Level-Domain (TLD) ausgegeben, der jemals bezahlt wurde. Nun gehört die TDL .app also zu Google. “Wir sind sehr .app-y”, lässt sich ein Google-Sprecher von Business Insider UK zitieren. Der Internetkonzern überbot damit unter anderem Amazon. Drei Bieter waren bereit, mindestens 19,4 Millionen Dollar für die Domain zu bezahlen. Zwei Bieter waren noch in der letzten Runde im Rennen, die bei 24,3 Millionen Dollar ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
Google .app 25 Milyon $ Domain Hakları Alıyor! - Google‘ın şimdiye kadar satın alınan en pahalı .app’ı ortaya çıktı.  Üst düzey web etki alanı için özel haklar satın almak adına büyük bir 25.000.000 $ ödediğini açıkladı. 2012 ICANN dünya alan adları kontrol örgüt içinde, genel TLD seçim ve en yüksek teklif kapalı ihalesi olarak biten etki alanı için çeşitli ekler sayısını genişletmeye karar verdi. Google, .doc, .android, .free, .fyi .foo ve bir kaç isim dahil beklediğiniz gibi bu üst düzey alan ... read more ...