According to its Third Quarter sales report, Domain Holdings reported almost $10,000,000 USD in domain name sales. The total amount of sales was down from 3.8% from the second quarter however the number of transactions were up 7.8%. Domain Holdings reported their biggest domain sale for the quarter was $2.7 Million versus $5.0 Million in Q2 "showing a much healthier overall diversity in … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Ashton Kutcher reveals he’s reserved domain names for his daughter Wyatt
Ashton Kutcher who is one of the more prominent celebs to adapt to social media and has over 16 million Twitter followers, has secured the domain for his new baby daughter. There is talk the one month old could have her own Twitter and Instagram accounts too. The names Kutcher registered included: WyattKutcher.com WyattIsabelle.com. The domains were registered at Enom on 3-25-14 under … [Read more...]
UDRP Panelist Screws Up Name Of TM 3 Times Transfering 7 Domain Names
A UDRP was decided by a one member panel of the the National Arbitration Forum on the domain names: highrollerdates.com highrollerwheelweddings.com highrollerweddingslv.com highrollerdate.com highrollerdatelv.com winfreehighrollertickets.com highrollerride.com Awarding all of them to Caesars License Company, LLC Eduardo Magalhães Machado, the sole Panelist seemed to be … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1million Led by Angel.in
Over the past week, 554 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .coms: cupofjo.com at 18,888 USD Top ccTLD: angel.in at 30,000 USD Top “other” TLD: joy.club at 10,000 USD Angel.in was also on the Sedo sales report back in April of … [Read more...]
Two Social Media Powerhouses With Over 7 Million Followers Re-brand to An .XYZ Domain
A couple of social media trendsetters have gone with an .XYZ domain name for their internet domain name presence. Tasia Alexis is by any measure a social media powerhouse with a total of 3.85 million followers has registered and proudly promoting her new domain name Tasia.xyz If you haven't heard of Alexis, well she has some pretty impressive social media numbers: Vine - 3 Million … [Read more...]
TLD Appoints its First China GM & Open Its HQ In “China’s Silicon Valley”
TLD Registry Ltd, who operates two of the most successful new gTLD's, had two big announcements today. They announced their first ever China GM and the opening of their office in the "China's Silicon Valley" TLD announced the appointment of the company’s first ever China General Manager. Mr. … [Read more...]
Forbes: Verisign Becomes #1 Most Shorted Stock in S&P 500
According to Forbes.com, Verisign Inc (NASD: VRSN) is now Most Shorted Stock in S&P 500 based on most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 10.15.2014 settlement date. According to nasdaq.com there are 19,441,435 shares of Verisign Stock being shorted as of 10.15.14 but more shares have been shorted in the past. 24,641,765 of Verisign were shorted back on … [Read more...]