GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), announced today it has bought the domain name GDDY.com through RightoftheDot.com who bought the domain name on behalf of Godaddy before it went public. When visited, GDDY.com takes individuals to GoDaddy's Investor Relations page, enabling anyone to quickly find out more about the company. Right of the Dot, LLC, a domain name consulting service, helped broker the … [Read more...]
ICM Just Made $1.2 Million On Sunrise Registrations For A $370K Investment
The ICM registry, which is the operator of .XXX, announced a short time ago that their two new extensions .porn and .adult each got around 4,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was opened to trademark holders. The wholesale cost for each sunrise registration was just $62, which is quite a bargain considering that the wholesale cost of a .sucks registration is around $2K + for any … [Read more...]
Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each: 10X+ More Than Any Average
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD's The Sunrise periods, which allows trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for … [Read more...]
.Me Passes 800K Registrations
The .Me Registry announced today that they passed the 800,000 mark in the number of registered domain names. If .Me was a new gTLD and not a ccTLD it would be the 2nd most registered, however they have not offered to my knowledge free domain names at any point Here is the announcement: ""We Hit 800,000 Domains! It's another big day for us as the .ME has passed 800,000 domain … [Read more...]
Domain Registrar MAFF.com Rebrands To XZ.com That They Bought For $138K in 2013
The Chinese domain name registrar MAFF.com has re-branded to XZ.com We received an email from MAFF.com announcing the re-branding today. The domain name XZ.com was purchased at the Inaugural Heritage Domain Auction which was held in New York City in November 2013 for $138,000. The … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Science Tops 220K Registrations; Passes .Club; & Who Is AlpNames.com?
The new gTLD .Science has now blown by the 220K domain name registration mark hitting 223,159 according to ntldstats.com becoming the 2nd most registered new gTLD passing .club It was just 11 days ago we wrote about .Science hitting the 120K domain registration mark and questioning the type of registrations the … [Read more...]
.Fit Finishes 1st Day Of General Availability With 1,269 Domains
.Fit which launched into General Availability yesterday by Minds + Machines wound up with 1,269 domain names including selling some of those premium domain names we talked about yesterday. .Fit had less than 75 domains registered during the sunrise period by trademark holders so basically picked up 1,200 registrations yesterday. It appears trademark holders went in and picked up at least 8o … [Read more...]