Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to register of the once 100,000 according to the tracker provided by the registry. The XYZ registry easily allows people to see what domain names are … [Read more...]
Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, … [Read more...]
Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com
Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original creation date of 2004. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google … [Read more...]
1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com’s At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction
Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I'm not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve. According to Estibot.com these … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1 million
Over the past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo's marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: thehairshop.com & yogashop.com at 20,000 USD (tie) Top ccTLD: sharks.tv at 15,000 USD Top "other" TLD: pricecompare.org at 4,280 USD New GTLD sales: 1.direct 2,500 … [Read more...]
55 Three Letter .Com’s From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China
I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen's Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com's. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored … [Read more...]