Radix put out a press release today that they will be launching .Store in April. Dot store will start Sunrise on 6th April. The TLD will follow the same rollout as Radix's last 3 launches. Sunrise will be followed by an Early Access Phase & .store will enter General Availability on 14th June, 2016. Full Press Release: Dubai (18th February, 2016): Radix, the portfolio registry behind … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days
According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD's domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days. On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered. Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the … [Read more...]
In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 5th Largest Domain Extension
The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won't be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the domain extension .Biz which has been around since 2001 in the number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com, .XYZ now has 2,369,039 domain name registered which passed .Biz which has 2,305,687 domains registered. In passing .Biz, .XYZ becomes the 5th … [Read more...]
Market Recap 2/17/16 GoDaddy up over 7% reports earnings
Market Recap 2/17/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up over $2 today or 7%, they received a buy recommendation from Deutsche Bank and reported earnings after the close. Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights Revenue of $425.4 million, up 14.4% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a constant currency basis. Total Bookings of $464.0 million, up 13.3% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a … [Read more...]
.Me Passes 1 Million Domain Name Registrations +28% in 2015
The .Me registry announced today that for the 1st time, the number of .Me domain registrations passed 1 Million domains. .Me is the country code or ccTLD for Montenegro. According to the Ministry for the Information Society and Telecommunications, the total number of registered domains amounted to 1,014,867, representing a whopping 28.36% annual growth in 2015. For the country Montenegro … [Read more...]
Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy up close to 9% day before earnings report
Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) up close to 9% the day before they release earnings. The company received an outperform rating from RBC Capital today. Web.com (WWWW) the parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com was down close to 4%. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 717.64 +10.75 (1.52%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 27.09 +2.23 … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $2 million led by CustomFit.com
685 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: customfit.com at 21,000 USD Top ccTLD: leasing.co.uk at 9,999 USD Top “other” TLD: ekspres.net at 5,500 USD There were a few triple repeating letter sales in .Club with RRR.club leading the way at … [Read more...]