A company seemingly taking advantage of the new gTLD program has started selling subdomains off of the domain name nyc.mn calling itself the "City Level Domain For Manhattan". ""nyc.mn is a city-level domain for New York City's Manhattan - created to provide a gold-standard online identity for the heart of NYC." "Being based in the world's most iconic city means having access to an iconic … [Read more...]
Directi Now Employees Over 1,000 People
I had a chance to catch up with Directi at the recent conferences and found the company is growing like crazy and adding jobs. The company recently broke the 1,000 employee mark. The company was founded by Divyank Turakhia & Bhavin Turakhia and according to the company they have over 7 million domain names in their system through one or more of their companies. Directi owns the … [Read more...]
After TRAFFIC & ICANN Conference Our Winner For Best Swag Award Goes To: Rook Media
After attending both the TRAFFIC conference and the ICANN conference and grabbing all the free giveaways or Swag I could find (all in the interest of research) we are ready to award our Best Swag Award to: RookMedia.Net At TRAFFIC all those who stayed at the conference hotel got an envelope slipped under their door with a very crisp $10 bill. The accompanying letter read in … [Read more...]
The Future Of Geo Domains: Chicago.com Makes $125K In 1st Year Of Selling SubDomains & Email Addresses
I had a chance to sit down with Josh Metnick who owns Chicago.com and started selling subdomains & email addresses ending in Chicago.com. In the first year, sales of subdomains and vanity email addresses using Chicago.com generated some $125,000 in revenue with virtually no marketing. Josh shared the numbers with TheDomains.com exclusively: ""Chicago.com is going well -- our first … [Read more...]
Google Leaks Earnings Early & Stock Drops 10%: Paid Clicks Up 33%; Cost Per Click Down 15%: Has $45 Billion In The Bank
Google just leaked its earnings today unintentionally early in a SEC filing and the street doesn't like the news (they were suppose to be released after the market closed today). Excluding sales passed to partner sites, revenue was $11.3 billion. Analysts on average had estimated profit of $10.65 a share on sales of $11.8 billion. The company earned $9.03 per share in the third quarter, … [Read more...]
DOMAINfest Becomes Webfest Global, Opens Registration, Publishes Tenative Agenda & Yes There Will Be A Domain Auction
According to a press release out this morning Oversee.net has changed the name of its conference from DOMAINfest To Webfest Global and opened registration for the conference that will be held February 5-7, 2013 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. As last year the agenda shows the conference will not just be all about domain names. The three-day Webfest Global 2013 … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Has the Key To ICANN
Frank Schilling's Uniregistry is a sponsor for the ICANN conference once again and all of the room keys of the attendees who are staying at the hotel where the conference is being held are receiving a Uniregistry branded key when checking in. When it comes to marketing its pretty tough to beat domainers as the .Co folks have shown. Clearly Frank's Uniregistry is going to be another … [Read more...]