Brand protection and corporate domain name registrar Mark Monitor published an Infographic on The Top 20 New gTLD's that have the Most Defensive Brands Registrations The infographic is entitled "Navigating the World of New gTLDs" and lays out the top 20 most registered domain names in the new domain name extensions (New gTLD's) by "Brands" (Trademark holders) Here is the top 20: (Note … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2016
Pheenix.com Launches Sellers Platform; Adds Escrow.com; Increasing Backorder Fees
The backorder service Pheenix.com is adding a Seller's Platform and increasing prices of backorders. Here are the highlights of an email we received about the changes: Escrow.com and Pheenix.com are now partners. Yes you heard right. Two of the most trusted and innovative companies in the domain industry have now joined forces. Escrow.com and Pheenix.com are now officially … [Read more...]
60 Minutes Covered Vine Millionaires on Sunday; Today It’s All Over
On Sunday the television show 60 minutes covered "The Influencers" "Social media stars are earning big money for pitching products in short, often silly, postings seen by millions of followers." Parts of the 60 Minutes segment chatted with people who said they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Vine. Today Twitter announced they were killing off Vine after they paid $30 … [Read more...]
$3 Million For TrumpTv.com? TrumpTower.Live & TrumpTowerLive.com Registered Yesterday
Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]
Guy Who Owns The Domain TrumpTv.com Wants $3 Million For It
TheWrap.com has an exclusive interview with the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com; Hollywood entrepreneur Fernando Escovar. Mr. Escovar told TheWrap that he bought the domain name back in 2004, and "totally forgot I owned it; Then, all of a sudden, traffic began to go crazy and I realized what was going on." "We’ve seen our traffic go from about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the … [Read more...]
Top 20 New gTLD Registrants Own Over 10% of All New gTLD’s
The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own over 10% of all registered new gTLD's. According to ntldstats.com, there are 24,890,063 new gTLD registered. The top 10 registrants of new gTLD domains own 1,860,529 or about 7.5% of all new gTLD domains. The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own another 679,874 new gTLD domains, meaning that the top 20 new gTLD registrants … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales chart led by RHD.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and the top sale was RHD.com at $35,000. eSports.co.uk sold for 19,995 GBP, eSports are gaining in popularity around the world and this looks like a good buy in my opinion. sCapital.com sold for $8,500, I just wrote a post taking a look at the keyword, capital. Insight.cloud sold for 2,000 Euros. The domain redirects to WinnersGroup.com. Domain … [Read more...]