Escrow.com is out with a release today announcing that they have added agents who can now transact business in Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi and Korean. Release: Escrow.com Adds New Agents in Customer Support San Francisco, California, July 21st 2016 - Escrow.com's team has grown rapidly in the first half of 2016, with the launch of new international offices and expansion of Customer … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2016
.Tel Which Once Had 340K Registrations Slips To Under 100K
.Tel which is not a new gTLD but gTLD that was launched in 2005, by January 2011 .Tel had around 340,000 domain registrations. By February 2014, when the new gTLD's started to launch .Tel had around 150,000 domain registrations. According to RegistarsStats.com, .Tel had a net loss of over 700 domain names yesterday bringing the total number of domain registrations to now under 100K to … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transaction Total $1.7 million led by ADA.com
Over the past week, 503 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: ada.com at 200,000 USD Top ccTLD: gig.me at 7,000 USD Top “other” TLD: greenstone.group at 6,000 USD AnimalsUnited.com was sold by Mike Mann and the name only cost him $12 to … [Read more...]
Verisign: Internet Grows to 326.4 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter of 2016
Verisign reported domain stats for the first quarter of 2016. The report not only breaks down .com and .net but cctld's and new gtld's. com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of approximately 142.5 million domain names in the domain name base in the first quarter of 2016. [2] In the first quarter of 2016, Verisign processed 10 … [Read more...]
The Daily Roundup for 7-18-16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 18, 2016 Domain movements spotted by Mike Pfizer Inc. buys the domain name CoverMySkin.com from Morgan Creative Group out of Scottsdale. MeMe.co which had a Buy It Now Price of $10K just cleared @Sedo escrow.com. The domain name BeaPepper.com just went into @sedo escrow selling to I would guess to Dr. Pepper China’s startup funding is still … [Read more...]
Google Wiping Out 14 year old blog illustrates why you need to control your content
You always hear back up your work and most know they should but don't. There are news reports out today about Dennis Cooper an artist who ran his blog on Google owned Blogger, has had his blog wiped away by Google. Cooper wrote on Facebook: Yesterday afternoon Google disabled my blog and took it offline. They did the same with my email account. Other than being shown a general 'violation of … [Read more...]
Guest Post: .WS Goes To China
This is a guest post by Alan Ezeir who is the Founder & President of Global Domains International, Inc which owns and operates the .WS registry which is the ccTLD of Samoa. I found it an interesting read not just for .WS domains but for all short domains in China. The following was written by Mr. Ezeir and was published unedited: ""I recently went to China with no expectations, just … [Read more...]