For the third year in a row, Go Daddy is teaming up with the .CO domain to create a 2013 Super Bowl commercial. The 30-second ad is set to feature Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick, but that's about all either company is revealing about the commercial at this point. In a press release issued today Godaddy said that ".CO is one of the fastest-growing domain name extensions on the Internet and is … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
Afternic Sells $1.1 Million In Domains
Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 12/10/12 – 12/16/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,092,157 The second highest .com sale of the week belong to us at MostWantedDomains, which sold BestTime.com for $15k Here are the reportable sales .com … [Read more...]
Sedo Posts $1.5 Million In Transactions
Sedo just issued its weekly report and in all 945 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million. Over 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .com: ulink.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: matik.ch at 11,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: traspaso.net at 4,000 … [Read more...]
Google Leads Those Applicants Not Pulling Paid Tickets At 24: Here’s The Full List
After ICANN drew all the tickets that were purchased for the new gTLD prioritization draw last night, ICANN drew the rest of the applications, again those not purchasing the $100 draw ticket. ICANN previously stated that those not purchasing tickets would be placed at the end of the cue and ICANN did in fact place them after the last paid ticket 1,776 which was .financial. Interestingly out … [Read more...]
New gTLD Contention Sets: Winners .Tickets & .Green Losers .Soccer & Everyone Else
I went through the new gTLD contention sets, those new gTLD extensions applied for two or more parties, to figure out based on the draw which ones would be done with initial evaluation first and which ones will go later on in the process. Looks like the winner is .tickets which has the earliest draw number of 259 and the last number 528, next up seems to be .Green with the earliest draw number … [Read more...]
The Unofficial Results From The ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for New gTLD’s
After over 13 hours the final ticket of the 1,766 purchased was drawn in the ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for new gTLD’s and the unlucky winner was .finance. Here is the unofficial results of all the 1,766 tickets purchased as drawn by ICANN. The first 108 were IDN strings which we excluded: Priority # String Applicant Name 109 PLAY Amazon EU S.à r.l. 110 dog … [Read more...]
ICANN New gTLD Draw Through #150 Most Applied For Strings Get No Love
Through the 1st 150 non-IDN strings in the ICANN Priority Numbers Drawsome of the most applied for new gTLD's extensions didn't have one pick. Unofficially I didn't hear any applications announced for .home, .music, .Inc, .LLC .Shop and .book, . 6 of the top 8 most applied for new gTLD;s and only one for .App. and .Blog. Others without any presence in the 1st 150 include what many consider … [Read more...]