Tag Archives: .com

Mon 31st August 2015
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Over 100 Kanye West President Domains Registered Today In Many Extensions Even .XYZ - Since announcing he is running for President of the United States in 2020 at the MTV Music Video Awards last night,  people have been registering domain names related to the hip-hop artist promised presidential run. From PresidentKanyeWest.com to Kanye2020.com to people who are really looking down the road registering kanyewestforpresident2024.com and Kanye2028.com there are a lot of domain names registered in various extensions today. I even found some new gTLD domain names registered including ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ seeks to boot Verisign's consultant testimony - New TLD company claims some expert testimony should not be allowed. .XYZ is asking the court to dismiss expert testimony from four expert witnesses in Verisign’s false advertising lawsuit against the new top level domain company. Some of the court filings are heavily redacted, leaving out the juicy details many in the domain name want to know. All expert witness reports were filed under seal. For example, just what kind of deal did .XYZ have with Network Solutions when the latter gave away hundreds ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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CB Insights: Covers World's Most Popular Non-.com Startup Domains, though Confused on New gTLD's - CB Insights.com which covers the startup/ venture capital markets published an interesting post entitled “The Non-Dotcom Bubble: The World’s Most Popular Startup Domains Other Than .Com” The story contains a chart tracking the most popular Non-.Com domain name extensions for funded tech companies from 2010-2015. Of course since the first new gTLD didn’t launch until 2014, none are reflected in the chart. Unfortunately as you will see later,  CB Insights is very confused about new gTLD’s ... read more ...
Tue 11th August 2015
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Trump and Bible trending in .com domain name registrations - Donald Trump is making money…for domain name registrars. Domain name registrations related to Donald Trump, the bible and Cuba were trending last month. According to .com registry Verisign, the following keywords showed the biggest increase in registrations from June to July in .com: 1. owned 2. Cuba 3. savings 4. prices 5. Trump 6. SUV 7. economy 8. scope 9. bible 10. frog I understand some of these terms, but frog? There was a big spike of “frog” related domains registered on July 22 for ... read more ...
 
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Google's Alphabet Inc. Announcement Fires Up .com / .net Registrations - As we noted earlier today over 6,000 .XYZ new gTLD domain names were registered yesterday,  after Google Inc. announced it’s holding company Alphabet Inc., using the domain name ABC.XYZ. It is interesting though, as Mike pointed out that of the 6,000 newly registered .xyz domains registered yesterday hundreds of them related to ABC, Alphabet and XYZ. I wanted to compare that to .com / .net domain registrations relating to those three terms. The “Alphabet” term ranked the highest, followed ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2015
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Paul Graham: Change your name. Get a .Com - Venture capitalist makes the argument for picking a good name and owning the matching .com. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has published an essay on his site about why it’s important to get a good company name and its matching .com. Is it still important in a world of apps? Graham writes: If you have a US startup called X and you don’t have x.com, you should probably change your name. The reason is not just that people can’t find you. For companies with mobile apps, especially, having ... read more ...
Sun 26th July 2015
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Frank Schilling On New gTLD's and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead - Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: “”IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should spend whatever it takes to buy one of my .com names because they could rest easy knowing their acquisition/investment ... read more ...
Thu 23rd July 2015
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 4.9%: 133.5 Million Registered .Com/.Net Domains - Financial Highlights Verisign ended the second quarter with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.9 billion, an increase of $460 million as compared with year-end 2014. Cash flow from operations was $175 million for the second quarter of 2015, compared with $121 million for the same quarter in 2014. Deferred revenues on June 30, 2015, totaled $932 million, an increase of $41 million from year-end 2014. Capital expenditures were $9 million in the second quarter of 2015. During the ... read more ...
Mon 13th July 2015
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.XYZ Issues The Challenge: Giving Away $2K For The Best New .Com & .XYZ Domain Name - The .XYZ registry has issued The Challenge “Think you can register the best .COM or .XYZ domain name?” “Submit yours, along with a short survey, for your chance to win $1,000! “2 winners will be announced on August 10th and 2 more on September 7th” Here is how TheChallenge.xyz as explained on the .XYZ site: “.COM is suing me – Daniel Negari, CEO and Founder of .XYZ – in part over a video where I said it’s impossible to find the .COM domain that you want. “Reacting to my interview ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Verisign admits: It is formidable to brand fascinating domain names that are available - Patent says it’s hard to find available domains, marketing says most domain lookups are successful. When do your company’s intellectual property efforts contradict your marketing efforts? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just issued patent number 9,065,794 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for providing domain name suggestions”. The patent describes ways of finding domain names based on user preferences and external data sources. I’m struck by a statement in the patent: A distinctive, ... read more ...
Fri 12th June 2015
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These keywords saw a spike in registrations final month - Options, Limos among popular keywords in new .com domains. Verisign has published its monthly “trending” keywords report, which finds keywords that have suddenly become more popular in .com domain name registrations. Based on the results, it would seem a lot of people got rich off stock options, used the money to buy a Tesla and became used to the keyless entry, causing them to forget their house keys and have to call a locksmith. Here are the top ten for May: 1. Options 2. Holo 3. Locksmith 4. ... read more ...
 
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Kevin Ham and Mike Mann let these prize-winning domain names expire - Domains that won $5,000 in Verisign contest used to be owned by well-known domain name investors. Verisign found some great domains for the final five $5,000 winners in its Internet Official contest. All five were previously registered. Interestingly, a couple well-known domainers used to own two of the domain names: Kevin Ham and Mike Mann. Based on DomainTools’ whois history, it seems they let the domain names expire. Here is the history behind the five winning domains: Delectablegarden.com ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2015
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Verisign Announces #InternetOfficial Month 3 Winners & Upcoming Grand Prize - Verisign has announced the winners of the #InternetOfficial contest for month 3. The month 3 winners are: delectablegarden.com GeorgiaWeddingCakes.com CancerSniff.com WarmEscapes.com BridesWithABudget.com Congratulations to the last 5 #InternetOffical winners! The Grand Prize round will launch on Friday, June 12 and end on Saturday, June 27th. Staring June 12th you can vote for the .COM that you think should be the $30,000 #InternetOfficial Grand Prize winner along with the Judges of the contest ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2015
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.Com winners and losers - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in February. ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from February. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy 912,763* 2. Rightside 203,096** 3. Tucows 106,910 4. PublicDomainRegistry 92,847 5. Network Solutions 62,104 When it comes to companies that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars with retail operations for February. These numbers are ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2015
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ICA Sounds The Alarm: Tell ICANN No to URS during .Travel – Or It Will Travel to .Com - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (the “ICA)  just published a post,  sounding a very loud alarm, to head off what would be the first step that would make all .Com domain name subject to the Uniform Rapid Suspension Policy (URS) which allows “trademark holders” to go after domain names. To remind everyone the URS which is only in effect for new gTLD’s is now being proposed in the new contract for the .Travel Registry which is not a new gTLD but an incumbent Top Level Domain ... read more ...
Wed 13th May 2015
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Nepal, Cuba and IoT are trending in domain names - News stories generate domain name registrations. Verisign has released its list of trending terms in .com and .net domain name registrations last month. A couple of terms are directly related to news stories: Nepal, which is recovering from earthquakes, came in at #8. Cuba, which is being opened up even more to the United States, ranked #4. (Read this story about a domain name investor who was really early for Cuba domain names.) IoT, short for Internet of Things, ranked #6. (Verisign’s DomainView ... read more ...
Tue 5th May 2015
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.Com domain name winners and losers - eNom and Uniregistry do well on transfers, GoDaddy and eNom lead in new registrations. ICANN just published the most recent .com transactions report, reflecting registrar results for .com from January. There were no major outliers from January in terms of .com transfers, but Google Domains made an appearance on the top gainers list. 9,770 domains were transferred to Google’s new domain name registrar. I wonder if these were from consumers transferring their domains or if Google transferred some ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds - Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the first quarter, up from 8.6 million in the same quarter last year. It’s not a big jump, but it’s headed in the right direction. That netted out to 1.51 million more names after accounting for deletions. Revenue for ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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The story of Verisign's Internet Official competition winners - Verisign contest hits its goal in first round. Verisign’s first five winners fit its message perfectly.Verisign has announced the first five winners in its Internet Official contest, a promotion designed to show that good .com domain names are still available. The domain names selected have interesting histories. The first five winners, who will each pick up $5,000, are: 1. ChooseYourTattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. ElectricMotorcycleClub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of Pine ... read more ...
Wed 15th April 2015
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China Dominates 7 Out of Top 10 Trending Keyword Registrations For .Com Domains In March - Verisign’s has posted the top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET for the month of March The word “China” was the top trending keyword for both .com and .net registrations in March. The next three most trending terms in .Com were also Chinese words. So the top 4 keywords registered in .Com were Chinese and 7 of the top 10. Only appliance, Guys and Rehab were non-Chinese words (including China) Certainly further proof buyers from China are moving the domain market and aftermarket Here ... read more ...
Tue 7th April 2015
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SEO Benefits Between .Com and Everything Else - This will probably be a controversial post as the topic has certainly been controversial. SearchMetrics.com published an article that took a look at the SEO benefits of .com vs every other extension. Now Google has always said there is no difference and Matt Cutts has debunked the new gtld crowd that said they would have a benefit. Matt wrote on his Google + in May 2012: lsauer.com wrote: Technically, it is not sensible to a priori discredit certain domains based on their domain extension. So far ... read more ...
Mon 6th April 2015
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Do Domain Extensions Matter ? One investigate says if it is .Com, You Betcha - Website Magazine asked the question: “Do Domain Extensions Matter ?” They went on to cite a recent study from Interbrand that stated 94 percent of consumers correctly recalled .COM while only 7 percent correctly recalled a new domain extension. From the article: In addition to memorability, Interbrand’s study sheds light on clickability. In fact, the data shows that 61 percent of consumers who were shown a search results page displaying similar Web addresses with different extensions still ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Survey says .Com performs improved than new TLDs - Survey says that people more likely to click and recall .com domain names. Interbrand, ostensibly on behalf of Verisign, has released an infographic showing results from a 1,000 person survey about the power of .com. The survey shows that people click on domain names ending in .com more than those in new TLDs. Consumers were shown search results pages with similar web addresses but different domain extensions. When the new TLD was displayed first, 61% still clicked on the .com web address listed ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2015
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Will .Com Even Be A Thing in 50 Years ? - CNN.com published an article on the 30 year anniversary of .com and at the end asked if .com would even be a thing in 50 years ? New gtlds and ecommerce over smart phones were mentioned as possible reasons to answer no. From the article: What will the future hold? Today, the undisputed champ is challenged by plenty of eager newcomers. New, more personalized domains are cropping up all the time: .coach, .green and .money are just a few of the latest. Increasingly, e-commerce is being conducted on ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of Dec 31 - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2%, year over year. The .com ... read more ...