Verisign just published its quarterly Domain Industry Report for the quarter ending June 30, 2011 and here are some of the highlights: The second quarter of 2011 closed with a base of 215 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which represents a 2.5% increase over the first quarter of 2011 and a 16.9 million, or 8.6% year-over-year increase. Verisign’s … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
What Could Be Worse Than ICANN? How About Total Control Of The Domain Space By The European Commission
You think ICANN running the domain space is bad? How about The European Commission (EC) controlling it? Kieren McCarthy of Dot-Nxt just wrote about six, yet unpublished papers by the EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General which wants to have control over the domain space including: """" A government veto over any new Internet extensions The creation of a list of … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Posts $650K In Domain Name Sales
Sedo just reported it's sales for the week and sold just about $650K in domain names led by NBB.com which sold for $95,000 and on which we reported earlier today On the non-.com from the domain Pact.de sold for around $25,000 (19,000 Euro's) and Melody.net sold for $14K a nice sale for that domain IMHO. That's $1.2 million between Sedo and Afternic for the last week of August, not too … [Read more...]
Afternic Posts $650K In Domain Namw Sales Led By WorldTennis.com At $30K
Afternic.com just reported $650,000 in domain name sales for the week ending Sunday August 28th, 2011 and its a pretty impressive week right in the "dog days of summer" a traditionally slow time. The sales were led by WorldTennis.com which was sold for $30K, followed right behind by a nice three letter domains IGX.com WorldTennis was bought by a company in Rio, Vahrcav Participacoes … [Read more...]
NBB.com Sells For $95K On Sedo
The domain name NBB.com just sold over at Sedo.com for $95,000. The domain name is current in escrow at Sedo awaiting transfer. The domain was owned by Malcolm Stone of Irvine Ca. To see some of the things that NBB stands for click here … [Read more...]
Who Will Get .Delta & Other Sticky Points In Our Final Dot Nxt Post
This is going to be my last post about the Dot Nxt Conference but an important one. In the audience from Dot Nxt was a women from Nigeria from a region known as Delta and she was at the conference to try to learn about getting .Delta for her community. Of course there are many other potential applicants for a .Delta including Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet. In the session on "Evaluation … [Read more...]
No Online Bidding From Live Domain Auction At The TRAFFIC Conference
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just announced there will NOT be any online bidding at the live domain name auction held at the conference. Of course for many of the first domain TRAFFIC conferences there was no online bidding, but later shows had online bidding through either SnapNames.com or Proxybid. It seems phone and even some sort of text bidding will be allowed, but it … [Read more...]