Earlier this month we learned that LasVegas.com sold back in 2005 for what could be up to $90 Million Dollars. In August the sale of Vegas.com was announced to a public company in a deal that could be worth $38 million dollars. In both instances, Vegas has consistently set the record valuation marks as the most valuable destination-specific website in the world. Now the website and domain … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
.XYZ Has More Domain Registrations Than Donuts 183 gTLD’s Combined
According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD's of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a first come … [Read more...]
.Club Breaks 420,000 Registrations Adding 100K In Two Weeks
The new gTLD .Club has broken through the 400,000 registration mark. Colin Campbell co-founder of .Club announced on Twitter yesterday that all NNNNN.club domain names were all registered just 2 weeks after all NNNN.club domain names sold out. Those registrations helped move .club to over 420,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com, which is 100,000 new domain names registrations since … [Read more...]
CES Conference Drops Its Domain Ce.org For CTA.Tech
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) parent company of the giant electronic show, CES which is held every January in Las Vegas, has dropped its 2 character .org for a new gTLD, .tech domain name The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the non-profit organization unveiled its new name, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and introduced its new logo on November 11th. The company … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers from everyone here at TheDomains.com. 2015 has been a strong year as far as traffic, comments and revenue. We thank all our readers and advertisers for spending your time and or money with us in 2015. This has certainly been a transcendent year for domaining as short domains and the Chinese domain boom have turned sections of domaining into the Forex … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by Aflam.com at $34,000
Over the past week, 1,080 transactions took place on Sedo's marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 67% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: aflam.com at 34,000 USD Top ccTLD: sponsor.me at 10,000 EUR Top "other" TLD: palm.info at 12,500 EUR New Gtld sales: geneva.consulting 3,000 USD asia.finance … [Read more...]
Namecheap Holding Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale With “$10 Million in Savings”
Namecheap, a leading ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting company, announced their major annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale. The two-day event offers over $10 million in savings and the lowest prices available for the year. Customers can save big not only on domain names and hosting, but SSLs, website builders, email hosting, and more. Rick Kirkendall, Namecheap CEO is quoted in … [Read more...]