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The Domains
Sedo has watched buy it now go from 2% to 56%
Sedo put together a graphic in their latest newsletter that chronicled buy it now sales. 2008 saw buy it now at just 2% now they are at 56% with numbers over 65% in recent weeks. Debates go back and forth about whether or not to list your names at bu...
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Sedo has watched buy it now go from 2% to 56%
Sedo put together a graphic in their latest newsletter that chronicled buy it now sales. 2008 saw buy it now at just 2% now they are at 56% with numbers over 65% in recent weeks. Debates go back and forth about whether or not to list your names at bu...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 10:51 pm
Domain Shane
New gTLD Development: IOT.Flowers, Datacom.Global, ATEC.Link
A few foreign language sites are included this week, as the new gTLDs of course aren’t limited to the English language. The screenshots are linked, if you would like to check them out for yourselves. IOT.Flowers This French language site allow...
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New gTLD Development: IOT.Flowers, Datacom.Global, ATEC.Link
A few foreign language sites are included this week, as the new gTLDs of course aren’t limited to the English language. The screenshots are linked, if you would like to check them out for yourselves. IOT.Flowers This French language site allow...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 9:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign IDNs: Landrush details and Premium Domains
Landrush will not be like Early Access. Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム. Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seeme...
Discussion
Verisign IDNs: Landrush details and Premium Domains
Landrush will not be like Early Access. Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム. Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seeme...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report – Chewbacca, Adorno…
Any bets: Who needs to be more frequently Flead.com ($211) – an ewok or Chewbacca? Seeing Adorno.com ($2.8k) in the charts this week, I’m sorely tempted to bore everybody with an essay on the philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who’ll...
Discussion
Expired Domain Report – Chewbacca, Adorno…
Any bets: Who needs to be more frequently Flead.com ($211) – an ewok or Chewbacca? Seeing Adorno.com ($2.8k) in the charts this week, I’m sorely tempted to bore everybody with an essay on the philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who’ll...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Neustar: Linking What Matters
As company continues to evolve, it files trademarks for likely new slogan. Neustar has been shifting its revenue base from a telecom contract to marketing, domain names and more. Based on recent trademark filings, it appears the company will adopt th...
Discussion
Neustar: Linking What Matters
As company continues to evolve, it files trademarks for likely new slogan. Neustar has been shifting its revenue base from a telecom contract to marketing, domain names and more. Based on recent trademark filings, it appears the company will adopt th...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 2:05 pm
The Domains
BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get’s $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner
The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference. The domain name already has gotten a bid of $500,000 on Namejet.com in pre-bidding. No only is BY.com become ...
Discussion
BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get’s $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner
The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference. The domain name already has gotten a bid of $500,000 on Namejet.com in pre-bidding. No only is BY.com become ...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 1:30 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD: Shane’s Big List of Domain Auctions for Friday the 18th
Today’s list has a pretty good list of shorter numerics. They’re is less and less of them up at auction but we get some today. This weekend starts the dead time in the US. When most businesses other than retail start to ...
Discussion
DSAD: Shane’s Big List of Domain Auctions for Friday the 18th
Today’s list has a pretty good list of shorter numerics. They’re is less and less of them up at auction but we get some today. This weekend starts the dead time in the US. When most businesses other than retail start to ...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 10:05 am
Domain Shane
Auction Recap, 17th of December
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 17th of December Yesterday’s Average 4L Chip Sales as listed on Namebio.com and LLLLsales.com was $2,441.60 Auction Quick Recap You would think people would have enough courtesy to ...
Discussion
Auction Recap, 17th of December
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 17th of December Yesterday’s Average 4L Chip Sales as listed on Namebio.com and LLLLsales.com was $2,441.60 Auction Quick Recap You would think people would have enough courtesy to ...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 7:13 am
The Domains
Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase...
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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 9:58 pm
The Domains
.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to reg...
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.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to reg...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 9:51 pm
