News out of GoDaddy is that Blake Irving to retire From Reuters (Reuters) - Website hoster GoDaddy Inc said Chief Executive Blake Irving would retire at the end of this year and named Chief Operating Officer Scott Wagner as his successor. Irving would continue to serve on GoDaddy's board through June 2018 and work closely with Wagner through the transition, the company said on … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by ipb.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and ipb.com topped the list at $36,600. rechnung24.de sold for 18,000 Euros ($21,167) and 7306.com sold for $19,500 to come in third. Cloud.Market sold for 9,000 Euros. Solid week for .co which had 3 sales, the highest being KPI.co at $6,999. The Indian extension put up 2 sales, Apartment.in sold for $9,950. Domain … [Read more...]
Emoji domains hype or the real deal?
2017 has brought more attention to emoji domains than any other year I can remember. From i❤️domains to the excellent guide produced by DNAcademy, to a high schooler named Shane Brunswick, an incoming high school sophomore who created Domainoji.com, an emoji domain registration website that automatically converts emojis to punycode. Blake Irving, CEO of GoDaddy expressed his fondness for … [Read more...]
Most expensive keywords in AdWords for 2017
A couple months back WordStream released their most expensive keywords in AdWords for 2017. The first thing I noticed was prices were down, I have written many posts on these expensive keywords. We usually see things that are $200 - $300 a click. Now to be fair that wasn't data gathered by WordStream. The 2016 post I wrote looked at data from EmpiricalProof and SemRush. Take a look you will see … [Read more...]
Interesting discussion on domain names
It's always interesting to me to see domain names get discussed by non domainers. Most of the times there is only 1 or 2 comments on a website outside the industry. There was an interesting Reddit thread that has quite a lively discussion. There were more pro domaining comments than I expected, vs the usual all domainers are squatters. There were plenty of squatter comments and thoughts on … [Read more...]
Milestone reached – 10,000 posts
A couple milestones reached today, I turned 50 and TheDomains.com has reached 10,000 published posts. TheDomains.com first post was published on December 4, 2007. Since then Mike Berkens set out to discuss all things domaining, from advising people to help protect their domains by joining the ICA, to giving his take on the new gtld program before and after it launched. Hot takes on ICANN and … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by EnergyOutlet.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and EnergyOutlet.com just edged out Human.Ai for the top spot. EnergyOutlet.com sold for $47,000 while Human.AI sold for $45,000. Labs related names have been popular over the last few years and SkunkLabs.com hit it out of the park at $19,888. Mike Mann was the seller of the name. Air.one sold for 2,500 GBP representing the only new gtld sale for the … [Read more...]
