A company operating on a .xyz has raised $200 million according to Bloomberg. A venture fund started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called The Engine has financed its first seven companies after raising $200 million from investors. The selected companies are working in fields such as aerospace, advanced materials, genetic engineering and renewable energy, The Engine said Tuesday … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2017
Sedo weekly sales led by WomenInc.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and WomenInc.com was the top sale at $25,000. ShoppingCarts.com sold for $12,000. WPHQ.com sold for $8,000 I read it immediately as WordPress Headquarters. Currently it's just a wordpress blog with the Hello World test post. 41 .com names sold this week, a little light, there were only 11 cctld sales and 2 other gtld sales. The top 5 cctld sales were from … [Read more...]
Uniregistry has sold 3617 domains totaling more than 29,000,000 USD in the first 8 months of 2017
Uniregistry put out a press release that breaks down the first 8 months of 2017. The company is having a solid year with over $29 million in sales on their marketplace. The number of transactions increased by more than 24% over the same time period in 2016. Average sale prices since 2011 have seen steady gains year over year, with 2017 showing some signs of moderation as the average … [Read more...]
.Boston Domain Extension Off To Slow Start With Just 170 Domains Registered in Sunrise
Today we received a Press release proudly announcing that over 150 Brands registered a .Boston new gTLD domain in the Sunrise period which was opened to trademark holders and certain rights holders in Boston. The PR has a subtitle "Strong pace with .BOSTON domains! - More than 150 brands getting ready with their .BOSTON web domains." Well with a population of almost 700,000 people in Boston … [Read more...]
10 things you should check before proceeding with a site migration
Stephanie LeVonne wrote an interesting and valuable piece on SearchEngineLand with regard to buying a domain for the purposes of SEO and site migration. Stephanie put together a checklist of 10 things to do to make sure the new domain will be right for a site change. Here is #1: 1. Google Search Console Obtaining access to the Google Search Console account is critical for analyzing the … [Read more...]
Google cracking down on rehab related ads
Google is cracking down on those advertising rehab centers, Google is actually doing something here that will hit their bottom line. These clicks are usually big bucks, Google is foregoing a decent chunk of cash by not allowing these ads on their search engine. The Verge broke the news on the disappearance of these "rehab" ads. They had previously written an article about shady rehab centers … [Read more...]
The Q2 2017 closed with approximately 331.9 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains
Verisign released their Q2 Domain Name Industry Brief. The second quarter of 2017 closed with 331.9 million domains registered, up 1.3 million domains. Summary The second quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 331.9 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.4 percent over the first quarter … [Read more...]