Over the last couple of years I have had many emails asking me whatever happened to domainer Sahar Sarid. Sahar is a member of the Domain Hall of Fame (inducted 2007). Ron Jackson of DnJournal.com ran a cover story on Sahar back in 2007. Sahar published a very popular domain blog, Conceptualist.com. So what has Sahar been up to? On the business front Sahar, recently sold the domain … [Read more...]
.XXX Adds 7,360 Registrations In February & Takes In Over $450K
The monthly ICANN reports are out for February and ICM operator of the .XXX TLD reported 6,352 one year registrations, 652 two year registrations, 196 three year registrations and 160 five year registrations. So that is a total of 7,360 new registrations for the month of February 2012, or 9,044 in total taking into account the multiple years. With a wholesale cost of $50 (actually its $62 … [Read more...]
Afilias Backend Provider for 305 Applications Including 175 .Brand TLD’s
Afilias Limited, the operator of the .INFO, .MOBI and .PRO top level domains (TLD) announced that it will be the back end provider for 305 new generic TLD applications to ICANN. "The applications span a range of new TLD ideas, and include 18 Internationalized TLDs (for example, Chinese and Cyrillic), four community domains, four geographic domains and more than 170 "dot Brand" names." "The … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Unveils His New gTLD Company: Uniregistry.com
Frank Schilling one of the largest private domain name portfolio owners in the world through Name Administration, is getting into the new gTLD space, as a registry, making application for some new gTLD's and today officially launched his new gTLD company called Uniregistry "We are building the next wave of destinations for businesses to exist on the Internet." "What happens when you take a … [Read more...]
Donuts Inc. Applies For 307 New gTLD’s & Raises More Than $100 Million
According to a Press Release Donuts Inc, applied for 307 New gTLD's by far the most of any company that has announced so far. At last report ICANN had received over 1,900 new gTLD applications, so Donuts, Inc. would represent around 15% of all applications. The 307 applications means that Donuts spent $60 Million just in application fees payable to ICANN. Donuts Inc. is going to use … [Read more...]
Monte Cahn Joins Domain Holdings Group
"Domain Holdings announced Wednesday that domain industry pioneer Monte Cahn has joined its team as an Executive in Residence and Advisor to the Board." "In his new role, he will help shape the company’s growth and strategic direction while also taking a more hands-on role with the premium domain brokerage, domain auctions and domain monetization." "Currently, Cahn is the President and … [Read more...]
Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Becomes 1st To Use Facebook Timeline To Promote Its Marketplace
According to a press release out this morning Mike Mann's Domainmarket.com has "started aFacebook Timeline to promote the online domain marketplace and provide information about domain names, Internet technology and online marketing." “Facebook is one of the best ways for us to connect with our customers and hear their opinions because people are utilizing Facebook business pages more than … [Read more...]