No it's not April Fools day but "Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council unanimously named the iCANN Health Center on Sacramento Street as the city’s fourth medical cannabis dispensary." Here is the catch. iCANN has nothing to do with ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and is spelled with a small "i" instead of a capital "I" Still it was too good of a … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2016
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by Uncle.Co
Over the past week, 465 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 63% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: jtrack.com at 9,888 USD · Top ccTLD: mortgages.ae at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: spreadface.net at 5,000 EUR One of the slowest weeks for .com with not one 5 … [Read more...]
Verisign Top 10 Trending Keywords For .Com & .Net in April; Trump is out; Panama is In
Verisign the registry for .com and .net released it he top 10 keywords in registered in .com and .net for the month of April In the last three months Trump landed in the top 10 for .com and .net but now that term is gone replaced by Guru, Prince, Panama ( as in the Panamapapers). For the top 10 here you go … [Read more...]
Rightside Explains Premium Domains & How They Sold 675+ @ $1K a Year; & $5M+
Drew Macpherson who says he is the head of the Premium Team at Rightside (NAME) explains Rightside definition of a Premium mew gTLD domain and the various levels they have. In the post Rightside says they have sold over 675 domains at an annual renewal of $1,000 or more per year. Here is the highlights of the blog post "I’ll be one of the first to admit that new TLD registries didn’t do … [Read more...]
Who Has The Most Valuable Search Traffic ?
Kyle Floyd published an article on SiegeMedia.com that looked at who had the most valuable search traffic ? By taking data from WordStream on highest paying adword keywords, they combined that with data from SEMRush to determine a monthly “value” for organic traffic from Google for companies across the web. Floyd notes, "Despite the fact that “Traffic Cost” can mean you have a lot of … [Read more...]
DomainX 2016 Selects India Shangri-La’s; Eros Hotel & We Have a 40% Discount For Our Readers
DomainX 2016 announced that they hare holding their "massive event" at Shangri-La's - Eros Hotel, on New Delhi to be held on August 5th, 6th and 7th, 2016! and is offering readers of thedomains.com a 40% discount off the registraton fee for today only. According to a press release we received, DomainX gets together the country’s top domain name industry professionals and provides them a … [Read more...]
1 & 2 Character Domain for .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading .CFD, and .Spreadbetting
"IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has released one and two-character domains across its portfolio of financial Top Level Domains (TLDs), (new gTLD's) which include .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading, .CFD, and .Spreadbetting. Prices start from $200, with the domain names are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The lineup of domains available includes: Z.forex, 8.markets, … [Read more...]