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Domain Name Wire
Slicing the data: Top 50 “Premium” gTLDs
One more way to look at the top level domain leaderboards. Registries have sliced and diced the new top level domain name leaderboards in many ways: paid registrations, registration years, number of domains used, Alexa rankings, etc. Here’s ano...
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Slicing the data: Top 50 “Premium” gTLDs
One more way to look at the top level domain leaderboards. Registries have sliced and diced the new top level domain name leaderboards in many ways: paid registrations, registration years, number of domains used, Alexa rankings, etc. Here’s ano...
Discussion
April 7, 2015, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Analyzing NameJet and Short Domain Name Sales
Joseph Peterson reviews recent NameJet sales, and takes a deep dive into sales of 3 and 4-character domain names. After a record-setting Winter, NameJet began Spring with a reduced sales volume for March. Even so, given 94 sales closing at ...
Discussion
Analyzing NameJet and Short Domain Name Sales
Joseph Peterson reviews recent NameJet sales, and takes a deep dive into sales of 3 and 4-character domain names. After a record-setting Winter, NameJet began Spring with a reduced sales volume for March. Even so, given 94 sales closing at ...
Discussion
April 7, 2015, 1:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts files interesting trademark applications
Donuts files trademark applications, likely for marketing campaign. Top level domain name registry Donuts has filed two interesting trademark applications. The applications are for the marks: I Am.___________ We Are.__________ My guess is this is for...
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Donuts files interesting trademark applications
Donuts files trademark applications, likely for marketing campaign. Top level domain name registry Donuts has filed two interesting trademark applications. The applications are for the marks: I Am.___________ We Are.__________ My guess is this is for...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 5:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Inside Sedo with CEO Tobias Flaitz
Sedo CEO discusses domain name parking, selling and more. Domain name owners park nearly 5 million domain names and list 18 million + domains on Sedo. This week Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz comes on the show to talk about the past, present and future of th...
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Inside Sedo with CEO Tobias Flaitz
Sedo CEO discusses domain name parking, selling and more. Domain name owners park nearly 5 million domain names and list 18 million + domains on Sedo. This week Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz comes on the show to talk about the past, present and future of th...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs this week: .Flowers and .Wedding
Pick out your .flowers arrangement for the .wedding. Two top level domain names launch this week, and it’s fitting that they launch near the same time. Uniregistry launches .Flowers on Tuesday, April 7. You can pick these domains up at a number...
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New TLDs this week: .Flowers and .Wedding
Pick out your .flowers arrangement for the .wedding. Two top level domain names launch this week, and it’s fitting that they launch near the same time. Uniregistry launches .Flowers on Tuesday, April 7. You can pick these domains up at a number...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 1:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com’s winners and losers update
Rightside had a good December in terms of transfer gains. ICANN has published Verisign’s .com transaction report from December, giving us an idea of which domain name registrars are winning and losing customers through transfers. eNom had the b...
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.Com’s winners and losers update
Rightside had a good December in terms of transfer gains. ICANN has published Verisign’s .com transaction report from December, giving us an idea of which domain name registrars are winning and losing customers through transfers. eNom had the b...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 1:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet Expired Domain Name Review
A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet. There are days when, thanks to television and image-centric social apps, I mournfully presume that literacy is doomed. Yet NameJet’s top expired auction from last week provid...
Discussion
NameJet Expired Domain Name Review
A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet. There are days when, thanks to television and image-centric social apps, I mournfully presume that literacy is doomed. Yet NameJet’s top expired auction from last week provid...
Discussion
April 3, 2015, 2:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
How domain name stocks did on GoDaddy’s IPO day
Competitors also get bump as GoDaddy soars. GoDaddy went public yesterday and shares immediately shot up 30%, giving the company a $4 billion market cap. In very early trading today it’s up another 3%. There are a number of similar public compa...
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How domain name stocks did on GoDaddy’s IPO day
Competitors also get bump as GoDaddy soars. GoDaddy went public yesterday and shares immediately shot up 30%, giving the company a $4 billion market cap. In very early trading today it’s up another 3%. There are a number of similar public compa...
Discussion
April 2, 2015, 2:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
22 end user domain name sales from last week
Car.info and Portfolio.me highlight this week’s list. Sedo’s marketplace handled 669 transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million in sales. The top public sale was Car.info, a staggering price for a .info in light of all of the new ...
Discussion
22 end user domain name sales from last week
Car.info and Portfolio.me highlight this week’s list. Sedo’s marketplace handled 669 transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million in sales. The top public sale was Car.info, a staggering price for a .info in light of all of the new ...
Discussion
April 2, 2015, 1:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
March’s Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire
A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other dev...
Discussion
March’s Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire
A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other dev...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 5:15 pm
