Francois Carrillo who is the Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which also publishes domaining.com has rolled out his newest site, Lend.me. The site puts together lenders and borrowers together which are willing to lend and borrow using domain names and websites as collateral with an interest rate of 12% per year, which is less than domain capital's stated rate of 15%. Moreover while domain … [Read more...]
.UK Gets Over 50,000 Registrations On It’s 1st Day
According to itproportal.com, the new .UK extension has surpassed 50,000 domain registrations in the first 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, expects 10 million domain name registrations and why not? There are over 10 million existing domain holders with a .co.uk or one of the other variations that will have first crack at getting the shorter address and … [Read more...]
Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings
One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Solution .XYZ registrations) and all Domain Names registered by Frank Schilling's North Sound Names in extensions owned by Frank Schilling's Uniregistry … [Read more...]
Google Basically Shutting Down Adwords On Adult Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords. Starting later this month they are basically shutting down Adwords advertising for adult sites. “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions of sexual acts including, but not limited to, … [Read more...]
New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time
The New York Times is reporting that talk of a Go Daddy IPO is just like their new slogan states, Its Go Time, as it filed it S-1 with the SEC today. According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year but continues to lose money as it reported a $199.9 million … [Read more...]
Shocker: Rick Schwartz Now Owns More New gTLD’s Domains Than I Do
On the Live Domain Sherpa show from TRAFFIC in Las Vegas, Rick Schwartz let the world know that he went on a buying binge with regards to new gTLD domains the past few days and now actually owns more new gTLD domains than I do. As we sit today, my company Worldwide Media, Inc. owns 455 new gTLD domain names. Mr. Schwartz who is a fellow Domain Sherpa, told the attendees at TRAFFIC that he … [Read more...]
The Internet Commerce Association’s Website Gets A Big Makeover
The Internet Commerce Association's (ICA) Website has undergone a massive redesign. The ICA has a new, sharp-looking website at InternetCommerce.org. The ICA wants to thank Michael Castello for leading the initiative to update the ICA site and for providing the mock-up, and Michael Sumner for creating the new site. The site just relaunched and now contains … [Read more...]