CSC released their new gtld utilization report for April. Using Alexa as one barometer it seems that the number of new g's in the Alexa top one million has risen by 30% since February. One of the thing the report pointed out was what is being used left of the dot. I think many believe there needs to be uniformity. WWW back in the day let less proficient users know something was a website. So … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to run for Mayor of Richmond. After registering NatePetersonformayor.com he decided to register the names of several other prospective candidates. From the article: Aside from the paperwork, Peterson has also taken strides to establish his … [Read more...]
HA.com Live Auction Today
Heritage Auctions is set to host another auction tonight at 4p.m. Eastern today. Proxy bidding ends one hour prior to the live auction. There are 42 lots up for auction. Some of the top lots include: Ve.com Current bid $850,000 720.com Balloon.com Blaze.com One lot includes 50 LLLL.coms where the winner can choose 20, the auction is no reserve. Current high bid $19,000 4 … [Read more...]
Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows continues winning streak up another 5%
Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows (TCX) the stock continued to post gains up over 5%. The shares arte up over 13% over the last 5 days. Rightside (NAME) closed at $9 for the first time since Feb 1. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 787.68 +7.68 (0.98%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 30.70 +0.05 (0.16%) Rightside Group Ltd NAME 9.00 +0.14 … [Read more...]
As Viewer Patterns Change So Are The Search Engines
For those not following Google over the last six weeks, right side desktop ads are gone and the rules of SEO and how people scan Google have changed a bit. Dan Bagby wrote a good article on these changes and provided some insight into keyword research. From the article: Removing the ads from the right rail of Google search results pages was a long time coming (well, a long time for … [Read more...]
Buying A Domain Name to Get A Twitter Handle – Wrong or Genius ?
Joel Runyon publishes ImpossibleHQ.com and he wrote an interesting article about getting the Twitter handle he needed by buying a domain name. Some may not agree with the method because Joel did a workaround that did not include getting Twitter to give him the handle. From the article: Here’s how I did it. Background I started PaleoMealPlans.com a few months back – in conjunction with the … [Read more...]
Ether Drops 50% this week
On March 28 we wrote about Ethereum and it's rise over 1,000 %. The cryptocurrency took a hit this week and plunged over 50%. CoinDesk reported: Ether's descent While bitcoin has seen range-bound prices, ether plunged more than 56% during the week ending 15th April at 12:00 UTC, according to Poloniex figures. George Samman, blockchain advisor and consultant, described the development as … [Read more...]