Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone - Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace.
Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com
“Net Add” mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted.
The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to 900,000.
These total include all legacy domain names extensions like .com, .net and .org (22 in total) and ... read more ...
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Fri 19th February 2016
Thu 18th February 2016
New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days - According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD’s domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days.
In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days.
On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered.
Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the total number of new gTLD’s domain name registrations at 13,782,837 meaning that the number of new gTLD domains ... read more ...
Thu 24th December 2015
The ROTD Domain Auction At Namescon Tops $5.5 Million In Bids - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction being held live/online on January 11, 2016 has now topped $5.5 Million in Pre-bidding on Namejet.com
In all there are 325 domain names with at least one bid and about 250 of those have more than one bid.
About 125 domain names will be in the live auction with the rest staying opened for bidding on Namejet.com until January 21st.
There are 12 domain names with a high bid in the 6 figures or higher.
43 domain names have a bid in the five figures or higher.
Moreover ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
Com Laude published the 3rd Report "Gazetteer of Domain Names" - Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry.
The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, etc.).
Here are some interesting observations from the report:
“There are now over 300 million registered ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2015
1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com's At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction - Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th.
Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet.
Over the years I’m not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve.
According to Estibot.com these 11 domain names have a retail value of over $200,000 and they are all at no reserve (minimum bid of $300 each).
Here ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion -
DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records.
According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider.
According to the statistics section on the site:
“The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604”
That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales.
In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
Sat 12th December 2015
CSC's Nov New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month -
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November.
According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD’s with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase.
According to the report there are now 6,654 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 up from 5,340 in October, ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2015
CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20% - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln).
According to the press release “the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering.”
According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted pre-tax profits of just over £1mln (A$2.1mln) on turnover of £7.11mln (A$14.8mln).
CentralNic ... read more ...
Sat 5th December 2015
Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client - The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday.
The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction.
The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 – $250,000
It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this domain.
Census.com as a parked page has an Alexa ranking in the 5 million range.
In a just 5 weeks RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2015
.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st -
.Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas.
The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner
In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won!
You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day.
Today’s free domain name is LowFare.Global.
.Global does not have a premium renewal fee so all these premium domain names will renew ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2015
Radix: .ONLINE Fastest New gTLD to Sell 100,000 Domains - Radix the registry for .ONLINE announced today that .Online is the fastest gTLD to sell 100,000 domains names since their launch less than 3 months ago.
After a very successful launch which broke all new gTLD records with 38,000 domain names registered in the first 24 hours of General Availability, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning.
The 100,000th domain to be registered was myfamilyroots.online that came through eNom.
This milestone comes at a time as Radix also surpasses ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD - CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names.
Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names. The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+ is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names.
CentralNic passed Rightside (NAME), which not only has its own new gTLD extensions as a registry but also performs the back end provider ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions - RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference.
RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction.
We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD’sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains.
Domains should have a low reserve price.
The reserve price is not the price you would quote to sell the domain if you got an offer on the ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name - fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive.
“Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a trusted, verified and more secure location online for their banking services.”
“In the United States ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours - Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg.
The domain holder’s case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day.
“”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to use the domain to divert Internet users seeking [Complainant’s] official website online to Respondent’s ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
Domain Movers: Texture.com, FijiFit.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where I detect domain names on the move, with the majority of the following being acquired or sold by large corporations. The remaining are simply valuable domain names on the move as well for one reason or another.
Here we go with the latest domain name registrations, purchases and simply movers:
Amazon Technologies, Inc. has registered the domain names AmazonLaunchPad.com and Amazon-LaunchPad.com. They do not own the EMD currently. They also registered AmazonView.com adding ... read more ...
Thu 30th July 2015
Willing.com, Evolve.com, Zeros.com And More Domain Movers - Here are the latest Domain Movers that I have recently detected. The following domain names have been purchased, registered or are simply moving, mainly all by large companies.
These are often early detections and likely the first time that most have been reported on. I heavily rely on the domain name whois system to provide ownership information to provide accurate data, but that doesn’t always reveal the whole story. Simply put, I try to provide the most accurate data as I can but data is mainly ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2015
Domain Movers: Doc.com, Fans.com, XT.com And More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move that have been recently purchased, registered or on the move for one reason or another. The majority of the following domain names have ownership by large corporations or are simply high value domain names.
These are often early detections and being reported on for the first time. These domain names can lead to new products, companies, services, advertising and more. I heavily rely on whois data to tell the story of these movements, ... read more ...
Fri 10th July 2015
RethinkDinner.com, FBAN.com And More Domain Movers - Domain Movers detects recently acquired, registered and domain names simply on the move for one reason or another. These domain movements are almost all by large companies and often reveal a future brand, product, service, ad campaign, new business or more.
If this is your first time to Domain Movers, you can click that link to view more stories in the series.
Here we go with the latest domain movers:
Chemtura Corporation has allowed the domain name BackyardEssentials.com to expire. The domain had ... read more ...
Thu 25th June 2015
Domain Movers: C9.com, BRRR.com and More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where we highlight newly registered, purchased and domain names that are simply moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies. These are often early discoveries.
Lets get going with today’s list of domain name movers:
Google Inc. registered several new domain names, starting off with GoogleChromeStick.com (Google has Chromecast which is a “stick”) Homero also points out the Asus Chromebit, which is a new Chrome Stick coming out soon, GoogleDeepMind.net, ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2015
Domain Movers: ContentID.com, NNNN.com and More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where Jamie Zoch monitors domain names on the move that are being registered, acquired or simply moving mostly all by large corporations.
These domain names can lead to being used for new products, advertising campaigns, services, brands and much more. These are often very early detections and can lead into the first time something is seen publicly relating to it. Here we go with the latest domain movers:
Apple Inc. registered 4 new domain names and those include: OSXElcapitan.com ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
Domain Movers: Strawberry.com, XboxMusic.com and More Domains - Domain Movers monitors large corporations and what domain names they are registering and acquiring. These often lead into new advertising campaigns, products, services, brands and much more!
Often times, these are very early detections and may be the first time this “new” thing is heard about. Here we go:
Briggs Stratton Corporation has registered the domain names GasCleanup.com and BriggsGasOff.com
Apple Inc. has had the domain name AppleAccount.com officially transfer to its ownership after ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
Domain Movers: MyM.com, NowTrending.com and More Domains - This is Domain Movers! The series by Jamie Zoch who discovers recently registered, acquired and simply moving domain names mainly all by large corporations.
These are often very early detections and can result in new companies, brands, services, products, advertising campaigns and much more. Sit back and enjoy!
Time Inc. has registered the domain name SportsIllustratedPlay.com, adding to its domain name portfolio of over 9,000+ domain names.
OfficeMVP.com has been acquired by a currently unknown ... read more ...
Tue 26th May 2015
Domain Movers: SJ.com, Ploom.com ShoppingCart.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers where I dig tens of thousands of domain names to find recently acquired, registered and domains simply moving mainly by all large corporations.
These domain names often highlight new brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. I do the legwork, you enjoy a bunch of unique content that can give you ideas to something in the works! Here we go with the latest domain movers:
JoinTheFlock.com has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client. The ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2015
Domain Movers: eGrad.com, Glimpse.com and More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers! We do the dirty digging to bring to light domain names that have been recently registered, acquired or simply moving by some of the largest companies in the world!
Set back and enjoy some interesting domain data!
3M Company appears to be in the process of moving all of its domain names from MarkMonitor TO CSC Corporate Domains. This isn’t the first large company to do this, as Allstate Insurance is another in the process as I mentioned before. 3M owns about 16,000 domain ... read more ...