Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that "Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monitoring company that it announced earlier this year, or perhaps it could be used as a hub for all the company’s services currently being promoted … [Read more...]
TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: "The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the very near future, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol)." Many of of the new gTLD's domain extension have already … [Read more...]
Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third … [Read more...]
Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD's registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of … [Read more...]
Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was their most popular selling Category of domain name Here are the details including some of the domain names they sold: … [Read more...]
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD's that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new gTLD's that the ntldstats.com number were not current nor correct. The corrected registration numbers including domain name registered by trademark … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder
The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 56 years The Complainant claims to own the ANN LANDERS trademark as assignee of the trademark registration with the USPTO … [Read more...]