Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was recently acquired by the company in March 2013 for approximately £391,000, which based on the exchange rate of £1.5205 the domain sold for just about $600,000. George notes that on Page 104 of the AO.com prospectus, they bought 2 domains for £391,000 … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2014
The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names
The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .Paris. The 100 pioneers were selected by a Jury which used several criteria mentioned in the call for proposals Pioneers : • The candidate must … [Read more...]
AO.com Goes Public In London; Founder Is Now Worth Over $915 Million
The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started AO.com which just went public in London. "John Roberts, 40, founder of online appliance retailer AO.com, set up the company after realizing that the long supply chain for ‘white goods’ such as dishwashers and fridges was adding needless … [Read more...]
While Most of the domain industry debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it up selling numeric domains
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN the first half of February. Over the last week things have picked up with some of the biggest sales ever in the history of the site. 920.com which sold on … [Read more...]
Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has more than 38,000 registration and the soon to be released .Ninja and the later to come .Expert The domains are priced at $25 at Godaddy making … [Read more...]
Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A&E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported to us that the buyer is A & E Network who is using the domain name FYI.TV to re-brand its Bio network. The Hollywoodreporter.com confirms that A … [Read more...]
Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer to the study ICANN. On its company blog Verisign, in a post entitled "Uncontrolled Interruption? Dozens of “Blocked” Domains in New gTLDs Actually Delegated", Verisign in part says: The report "centers on the technique of … [Read more...]