We turned on the Uniregisty's Affiliate program about 10 days ago, that places a banner on the bottom of parked pages marketing new gTLD's registrations. So far the results have been less than impressive As you can see below we have had almost 5,500 clicks, no transactions and no revenue. Today, Domaininvesting.com, wrote about some new landing pages for Franks own portfolio: "In place … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
NetNames Acquires WebIP
NetNames, an online brand protection and corporate domain name management, has acquired WebIP, a leader in corporate domain name management in the Australian market. This acquisition provides access for Australian corporations to NetNames' online brand protection services, which are used by many global brands to prevent counterfeit sales and other forms of online brand infringement. I n … [Read more...]
I Gave Up Bahamas.Tv With a $500 Annual Bill & Got The .Com For $98
So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As most of you know the .TV registry had premium renewal prices on most of all their good premium domain names until a few years ago when they accepted a … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Continues Global Expansion
Go Daddy is expanding all around the globe. The company now Supports Localized Product & Support in 37 Countries, 42 Markets, 44 Currencies & 17 Languages. Go Daddy put out a release announcing some of their expansion plans. GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced its continued expansion into international markets. After … [Read more...]
U.S. Government Looking to Cash In Seized Silk Road Bitcoins
John Biggs of Tech Crunch reported that the U.S. government is starting to convert the Bitcoins from the Silk Road raid to cash. From the article: As I noted in January, the U.S. government is quite interested in getting out of the Bitcoin business and has, thus far, been working hard to convert seized bitcoin to actual cash, a move that could affect the BTC markets if these large transactions … [Read more...]
Ficep.com Registrant Wins Again and Panelist Declares RDNH
Second time around is no better than the first for Ficep SPA, they filed a second UDRP to try to get the domain FICEP.com. This was not company vs domain investor but rather an Italian company founded in 1930 vs a French company founded in 1978. The panelist did not seem too happy that the Italian company filed a second UDRP on the same name with basically all the same facts. Janet Seager went … [Read more...]
The Prediction Made On TheDomains Comes True As The 2 Chinese IDN Both Make The Top 5
Back on March 19th we published an interview with Simon Cousins about the two extensions TLD Registry is rolling out the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as Dot Chinese Website (中文网) Back then Simon told TheDomains.com that: "I would say we have a greater than 50% chance of both of our strings being in the top 5 new gTLD’s in terms of domain name registrations at the end of … [Read more...]