The hashtag #Resist and the use of the word has been trending all over Twitter and the media to protest President Trump's agenda and really picked up steam since the Grammy awards aired on Sunday. In many cases hashtags lead people to the matching .com site and in the case of Resist.com, all anti-President Trump people, as well as President Trump supporters and the rest of the world are not … [Read more...]
CentralNic appoints Stuart Fuller as Group Commercial Director
CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) announced today that it has named Stuart Fuller as Group Commercial Director heading up worldwide sales activities. "Mr. Fuller joins the company after eleven years at domain name retailing, corporate domain name management and brand protection firm NetNames (formerly Group NBT) where he was responsible for commercial operations for the group. His earlier career was in … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Rick Schwartz Thinks Use of Domains In The Super Bowl Over Hashtags Is A Game Changer For The Domain Industry
Legendary Domain investor Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King, wrote to me about the post we published about earlier this week from MarketingLand.com, that Domain Names appeared in substantially more television commercials that aired during the Super Bowl than Hashtags and Facebook Pages. He thinks it's a game changer, a reset in the importance of Domains. So here are Rick's thoughts and … [Read more...]
The RightoftheDot Auction From Namescon Ends Today
The extended auction from the Namescon conference being run by RightoftheDot on Namejet ends in starting in just over 2 hours. Of the 350+ domain names in the auction as of publication 300 domain names have a current high bid of $3,500 or less. 200 domain names as of publication have a high bid of $410 or less. Many domains especially the lower priced domains do not have reserve prices … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports 800,000 in Domain Sales In January 2017
Namejet.com reported it domain name sales through its auction platform for January 2017 As usually only sales of $2,000 or more are reported and only those domains that were paid for by January 31, 2017 are included in the report. As we have come to expect 4 out of the top 5 sales and 12 of the top 15 sales were for three-letter .com domains. The total came to 793,301.00 Here is the … [Read more...]
Domain Names Appear More Than Hashtags in Super Bowl Ads
In a story appearing in the DailyMail, Entitled Is the hashtag over? Looking at ads that ran during the Super Bowl on Sunday" Out of 66 ads only 30% of them had a hashtag - while 41% included a URL This year had a 15% decrease in number of hashtags used in commercials Twitter handles were only shown in 5 commercials and Facebook in 4. The statistics come from Marketing Land’s sixth … [Read more...]
Tucows Down Over 10% in After Hours Trading After Earnings Release to $43.25
After releasing it earnings yesterday Tucows (TCX) share sank over 10% in after hours trading to $43.25. Shares of Tucows closed at $48.40 share down $.20 after hitting an intraday high of $50.52 in trading yesterday. As you can see from the one day chart above shares of Tucows were down to just above $40 a share in after hours trading before rallying back over $43. We will see how the … [Read more...]