VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), treported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 after the market closed. As of the quater ending June 30 there were 124.3 million .com/.net domain names an increase of 4.9% VeriSign, Inc., and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $239 million for the second quarter of 2013, up 12 percent from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign … [Read more...]
DomainSponsor Vs.InternetTraffic.com Our Two Month Test Yields Shocking Results: DS Wins
Back in April we were approached by DomainSponsor.com to do a test on their parking system. DomainSponsor.com said they had spent a lot of time and money on revamping their parking system, had all new people working for them and wanted to know how their new and improved system would stack up against Frank Schilling's InternetTraffic.com I agreed to do a test with about 19,000 domain names I … [Read more...]
FreshDrop’s Pheenix Changes On Aug 1 To Accept Multiple Back orders & Provide For Drop Auctions
Freshdrop which officially rolled out their back order program out of Beta on April 23rd under the name of Pheenix, announced today that it will be changing their back order system effective August 1st from a one domain per back order system to one which will accept multiple back orders on the same dropping domain. Those dropping domains with multiple back orders will go into auction like they … [Read more...]
HuntingMoon Updates Its Site To Allows Domains To Be Listed For Sale For Free & Opens Marketplace For Apps
With over ten million dollars of domains and developed sites sales since 2006, HuntingMoon.com has made a dramatic update to its selling policies, enabling domain owners to list their domain names for sale and auction for free. Unlike other domain marketplaces, the commission to HuntingMoon on successful transactions is only 10%. Evan Horowitz, HuntingMoon.com CEO said, "The HuntingMoon … [Read more...]
HugeDomains.com Passes BuyDomains.com To Become Largest Private Domain Holder With Over 1 Million Domains
HugeDomains.com has passed NameMedia's BuyDomains.com to be the largest Privately Owned Domain holder in the world with over 1,000,000 domains owned. The number of domains owned by HugeDomains.com as of today "is about" 1,016,374 according to DomainTools.com The company which was previously thought to own the most domain names, Name Media which owns BuyDomains.com owns about 956,085 domains … [Read more...]
CBS News Covers The Domain Aftermarket & Puts DomainAgency.com In The Spotlight
CBS News just published a story on the domain name aftermarket getting all their information from the story from husband and wife team Brian and Meghan Berke which run domainagency.com. Here are the topics covered in the article which I think are pretty bang on: Domain owners and/or sellers aren't always easy to identify, connect with and approach with a purchase inquiry. Knowing who the … [Read more...]
FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names
DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending … [Read more...]