Jason Mcardle of QLQ.com wrote a blog post on where QLQ sees the domain market going. Jason started off looking at how the Chinese economy is affecting the domain market as outflows continue from the stock market. From the article: We are seeing much more activity in the more volatile, less expensive end of the investment market. For example, 4L.com, 4L.net CHIPs, 6N.coms, 3L.orgs, etc … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
Market Recap 2/25/16 Verisign up – Minds + Machines off 5.7%
Market Recap 2/25/16 Neustar (NSR) was the top gainer today up 3.4% and the stock is up over 18% since Feb 10. Verisign (VRSN) was up $1.13 to $84.33. Minds + Machines (MMX) was off 5.7% at 8.25P Alphabet Inc GOOGL 729.12 +8.22 (1.14%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 29.52 -0.32 (-1.07%) Rightside Group Ltd NAME 8.47 -0.08 … [Read more...]
.Pet Went Live On Tuesday & Has Over 5.4K Domains Registrations
The new gTLD .Pet went live into general availability (GA) on Tuesday where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and according to ntlstats.com .Pet has 5,428 domain name registered. There were less than 100 .Pet domain names registered before GA in Sunrise. Godaddy is charging $11.99 for a .Pet domain for example but there are also premium domain names like Vet.Pet … [Read more...]
Market Recap 2/24/16 Minds + Machines up – United Internet Down
Market Recap 2/24/16 United Internet (UTDI) the parent company of Sedo was off close to 3% today. Verisign (VRSN) was up close to 1% back over $83 and closed at $83.20. Minds + Machines (MMX) got back to 9P and the stock is up close to 25% over the last month. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 720.90 +3.61 (0.50%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 29.83 +0.15 … [Read more...]
Sled.com Owned by Yahoo; Mark Monitor Sold
The domain name Sled.com which was owned by Yahoo! Inc. back in 2013, with the domain name registrar and brand protection company MarkMonitor.com just sold. Since January 2014 the domain name whois changed from Yahoo, to the catch all for Mark Monitor clients. Yesterday the domain name updated and the new owner of the domain is ELECTRONIC CREATIONS CORPORATION and the domain is registered … [Read more...]
NameJet to Auction off 22 Top Tier .WS Names
.WS is making their push into the Chinese market and a press release that came out stated that in the past 3 months .WS registrations have increased by 1500%. The initial auctions contain LL names like MB and DX, there are NNN names like 887 and 288. I am interested to see where these auctions close and what the bidding action looks like. I have never owned a .WS domain, I have never been paid … [Read more...]
Market Recap 2/23/16 Domain stocks down – Rightside bucks the trend up 2.2%
Market Recap 2/23/16 Domain stocks were down today, Rightside (NAME) being the exception, the stock was up 2.2%. Verisign (VRSN) gave back half of their gains from yesterday and closed at $82.49. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 717.29 -11.76 (-1.61%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 29.68 -0.48 (-1.59%) Rightside Group Ltd NAME 8.72 +0.19 … [Read more...]