"You come at the king you best not miss" David Pierce over at Protocol wrote an interesting article with a provocative title. The plot to kill .com. In the interview Pierce discussed how the buyers of Angel.com went on their journey to rebrand and finally end up with the best name possible. Paul Nicks is in the article, Paul was quoted as saying, If you don't own the .com, you will … [Read more...]
Is it still too early, or too little, too late for emoji domains?
It’s always interesting to travel back through time, and examine the lifecycle and events of a trending topic, especially when it relates to domains. Now having been entrenched or involved with domains for the last 7-8 years, I find that the domain industry is not an exception. There have been a number of trends — blockchain, crypto, bitcoin, 4L .coms, numeric, and emoji domains to name a few — … [Read more...]
VeriSign’s potential long term goal
Mike and I were discussing the VeriSign blog post today and the subsequent outrage in the domain investor community. Mike might be onto something though, these were his takes about the post, the disparaging language of calling some of your biggest customers "scalpers." and the long game for Verisign. The long game for VeriSign is about removing price caps, while these increases are nice, … [Read more...]
Buyer of Vacation.Rentals believes the days of high priced .com sales are coming to an end
Mike Kugler is the gentleman that purchased Vacation.Rentals for $500,300. Currently the highest reported new gtld sale. Yes Gay.app has been touted as being sold for $1million. No confirmation by any source that industry participants rely on. A website by the name of AMAfeed.com did a Reddit style ask me anything with Mike. Some of the questions were about the website, others about vacation … [Read more...]
Sell your best short .com names
This post is about short .coms only, you may list any LL,LLL,LLLL,NN,NNN,NNNN, 3 character in .com only. Max 3 names listed only. There have been a few who have tried to post more names using a different email address/name same IP all submissions will be deleted if caught. Names will get some added exposure on Twitter, which is where about one third of sales have generated from over the last … [Read more...]
Verisign: Number of .Com Domains In “Domain Name Base” Tops 130 Million For 1st Time
Verisign (VRSN) which operates the .Com registry is reporting the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base exceeds 130 Million for the 1st time. The actual number of domains in the .Com Domain Name Base stands at around 130.3 Million as of today The number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base passed 129 Million in the end of June 2017. The number of .Com domain names in … [Read more...]
Verisign: The Number of .Com Domain Registration Pass 129 Million For 1st Time
According to Verisign (VRSN) which operates the .Com registry, the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base has passed 129 Million for the 1st time. The number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base passed 128 Million for the 1st time in September 2016. The number of .Com domain passed 127 Million in May of 2016; 126 Million domain names in March 2016. So growth of … [Read more...]
