The domain name industry blogs covered Rightside (NAME) exposure in New York last week, which included presenting to the street and ringing the closing bell at the NASDAQ which was covered … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
If You Want One Of The Best .Auction Domains You Better Bring A Big Check; Up To $60k A Year
.Auction which goes into general availability on Wednesday is coming with some pretty stiff premium registration and renewal pricing. The new extension is being sold by Rightside. A regular registration will cost around $42. Here are some of the more interesting domain names I found that are available as of publication (pricing based at rack rate at Enom.com): $60,012 Registration fee … [Read more...]
Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The Cost Of What A Block Would Have Cost
Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of … [Read more...]
US Dept of Commerce Strickling: No Firm Deadline To Give Up Control Over ICANN
The WallStreetJournal.com, according to a letter in the Journal today , Commerce Department official Lawrence Strickling dismissed the importance of U.S. oversight of ICANN and said that there is no firm deadline for the U.S. to give up oversight of ICANN. "In March the U.S. announced it would not renew its contract with ICANN next September. Mr. Strickling now says that’s not a firm … [Read more...]
CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD Related
CentralNic (LON:CNIC) announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD's over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the … [Read more...]
Godaddy Has Blowout Holiday Party Featuring Pitbull
Godaddy held its annual holiday party in Cedar Rapids Convention Center last night December 6th. The party featured one of the hottest performers in music, none other than Pitbull a/k/a Mr Worldwide a/k/a Mr. 305. Pitbull who is from Miami puts on a great show. We were lucky enough to see him in Miami perform last new years eve but we were not lucky enough to have … [Read more...]
Following The Adwords Money Trail
Eric Van Buskirk wrote an article on Search Engine Journal which detailed his data analysis of where advertisers spend their money on Google Adwords. A pretty interesting look at sectors and prices paid in certain niches. From the article: There is an abundance of pieces written about uber expensive Google AdWords phrases: the top 10 or 100 most expensive, for example. However, little to no … [Read more...]