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The Domains
Verisign: third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations
Verisign Q3 2019 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 359.8 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Third Quarter of 2019 Data shows that the third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level dom...
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Verisign: third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations
Verisign Q3 2019 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 359.8 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Third Quarter of 2019 Data shows that the third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level dom...
Discussion
December 19, 2019, 10:06 pm
The Domains
Reported new gtld sales in 2019 down over $2million from 2018
2019 was not a great year for reported new gtld sales, after 2018 saw dollar volumes rise by 700,000, 2019 is looking down over $2 million. Of course there will be those that will say many sales go unreported, that’s true for all extensions so ...
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Reported new gtld sales in 2019 down over $2million from 2018
2019 was not a great year for reported new gtld sales, after 2018 saw dollar volumes rise by 700,000, 2019 is looking down over $2 million. Of course there will be those that will say many sales go unreported, that’s true for all extensions so ...
Discussion
December 19, 2019, 8:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Is .icu actively used in corporate China?
Kassey Lee examines .icu in China, where most of its registrations are. According to Namestat.org, the .icu extension is the best-selling new gTLD (I prefer calling it niche extension) with more than 4.2 million registrations in total and 3.7 million...
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Is .icu actively used in corporate China?
Kassey Lee examines .icu in China, where most of its registrations are. According to Namestat.org, the .icu extension is the best-selling new gTLD (I prefer calling it niche extension) with more than 4.2 million registrations in total and 3.7 million...
Discussion
December 19, 2019, 6:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains Cisco and others bought at Uniregistry
Cisco bought a new domain for a product launch, plus other domain purchases. Uniregistry release its top 20 sales for the last two weeks combined, and it had some nice domains. The most notable buyer is Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), but it wasn’t the m...
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What domains Cisco and others bought at Uniregistry
Cisco bought a new domain for a product launch, plus other domain purchases. Uniregistry release its top 20 sales for the last two weeks combined, and it had some nice domains. The most notable buyer is Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), but it wasn’t the m...
Discussion
December 19, 2019, 2:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
RDNH: A domain has to be registered in bad faith
A WIPO panelist finds reverse domain name hijacking because the domain was only used in bad faith, not registered in bad faith. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby just wrote a decision that reflects a key requirement of...
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RDNH: A domain has to be registered in bad faith
A WIPO panelist finds reverse domain name hijacking because the domain was only used in bad faith, not registered in bad faith. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby just wrote a decision that reflects a key requirement of...
Discussion
December 18, 2019, 6:39 pm
The Domains
Neuvoo.com to become Talent.com
Neuvoo is a job board that operates at Neuvoo.com. The company does not have a great rating over at TrustPilot with 92% of ratings as bad. Of course you never know competitors could be playing games and giving bad ratings, I don’t know. Glassdo...
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Neuvoo.com to become Talent.com
Neuvoo is a job board that operates at Neuvoo.com. The company does not have a great rating over at TrustPilot with 92% of ratings as bad. Of course you never know competitors could be playing games and giving bad ratings, I don’t know. Glassdo...
Discussion
December 18, 2019, 6:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
How are new gTLDs doing in China?
Kassey Lee examines the market for new domains in China. More than 1,000 new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) were released five years ago. How are they doing in China? Let’s look at the best-selling ones as they relate to China. A bit of pers...
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How are new gTLDs doing in China?
Kassey Lee examines the market for new domains in China. More than 1,000 new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) were released five years ago. How are they doing in China? Let’s look at the best-selling ones as they relate to China. A bit of pers...
Discussion
December 18, 2019, 4:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
The final Sedo end user sales list of 2019
A Canadian resort, a consignment app, and a Las Vegas club directory bought domain names. This will be the final list of Sedo end user sales for the year as Sedo takes a hiatus from reporting sales during the holidays. The company’s top sale of...
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The final Sedo end user sales list of 2019
A Canadian resort, a consignment app, and a Las Vegas club directory bought domain names. This will be the final list of Sedo end user sales for the year as Sedo takes a hiatus from reporting sales during the holidays. The company’s top sale of...
Discussion
December 18, 2019, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
18,000 sign EFF letter asking ICANN to halt .Org sale
Hundreds of nonprofits ask ICANN to pause deal to sell .Org registry to for-profit private equity company. Over 400 nonprofit entities and 18,000 individuals have signed on to a letter authored by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), asking ICANN to...
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18,000 sign EFF letter asking ICANN to halt .Org sale
Hundreds of nonprofits ask ICANN to pause deal to sell .Org registry to for-profit private equity company. Over 400 nonprofit entities and 18,000 individuals have signed on to a letter authored by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), asking ICANN to...
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December 18, 2019, 12:10 am
The Domains
Wow A $147,000 haircut?
Sexe the French word for Sex sold in the .org extension back in 2008, by none other than the founder of this blog, Michael Berkens. Michael sold the domain name for $151,400 at his website MostWantedDomains.com. The buyer was a French company that lo...
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Wow A $147,000 haircut?
Sexe the French word for Sex sold in the .org extension back in 2008, by none other than the founder of this blog, Michael Berkens. Michael sold the domain name for $151,400 at his website MostWantedDomains.com. The buyer was a French company that lo...
Discussion
December 17, 2019, 11:06 pm
