VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and year ended Dec. 31, 2012 today after the market closed and had a very nice year. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $230 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, up 13 % from the same quarter in 2011. Verisign reported net income of $106 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.65 for … [Read more...]
DomainMarket’s SnapNames Auction Ends Today & All That Is Missing Are Bidders
Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com is holding an auction of some really good domains over at SnapNames.com, including HappyBirthday.com, Bailout.com, Crime.org and Females.com to name a few. The auction ends at 3:15PM EST today and while there are some really good names at auction the one thing that seems to be missing are bidders. With 34 domain names, with reserve ranges starting at $1,000 not … [Read more...]
Oversee Should Have Secured The Domain Webfest.com Before Changing The Name Of Its Conference
When Oversee.net announced a few months ago it was changing its name from Domainfest to Webfest you would have thought they would have at least secured the right to use the domain Webfest.com Afterall, Oversee.net is in the domain business and even though they have switched gears by broadening the old Domainfest into Webfest it doesn't change the fact that Oversee is a major player in the … [Read more...]
DomainMongrel.com Launches New Domain Appraisal Tool: Here’s Some Comparisons
If your a frequent reader of TheDomains.com you know we are not great fans on domain name appraisal tools so we might be surprised to see us announce yet another one, DomainMongrel.com I will go through some results we got today but first this is how the developers described the appraisal tool in their press release today: "This new tool—Domain Name Estimator—offers domainers a rough … [Read more...]
IDNX/Sedo: Number Crunching Shows, Domains Sell Faster With “Charm Prices”
This is a Guest Post by Thies Lindenthal, Sedo.com’s product manager for domain pricing, and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate. Mr. Lindenthal holds a PhD in Real Estate Finance from Maastricht University, and frequently publishes on both housing markets and on Internet domain names as a form of 'virtual land'. Dr. Lindenthal developed … [Read more...]
SeekingAlpha: “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0′”
SeekingAlpha.com a publication that goes out to stock investors. In a post entitled "Get Ready To Profit From The 'Dot-Com Boom 2.0" The article starts out with the subtitle: ""Dot-com is so 1990s" "Starting March 23, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will increase the availability of Web addresses by assigning some 1,900 domain suffixes, the part of a website … [Read more...]
Fred Mercaldo/CitiesPlanet.com Lauches Osaka.com
According to a press release Fred Mercaldo/CitiesPlanet.com has Launched the website Osaka.com. ""Osaka.com has been developed by CitiesPlanet.com, the largest network of City.com brands in the industry along with Allan Hsu a Japan-fanatic who has a passion for everything Japan, especially Osaka." "Osaka.com CEO Allan Hsu stated "It has been a great pleasure to see the launch of Osaka.com. … [Read more...]