One of the oldest (in terms of getting into domaining) and biggest domain portfolio owners of all time is on the verge of losing everything including all of his domain names according to a post on lawlessamerica.com. The story is about Jeff Baron who you may or may not recognize, but the domains he registered back in the day were registered to Compana, LLC of Texas using the servers Compana.com … [Read more...]
Verisign Report May Indicate That The Number Of Parked Domains Looks To Be In Significant Decline
Verisign released its Domain Name Industry Brief yesterday for the 4th quarter of 2011. At one time Verisign reported the number of parked domains but stopped that practice a few years back. The last time Verisign reported the number or percentage of parked domains on a .com or a .net domain name that number totaled 7%. In recent years Verisign has been lumping parked domains into a … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports 2011 Closed With 225 Million Domain Registrations: .Com/Net Almost 114 Million
Verisign just published its Domain Name Industry Brief report for the 4th Quarter of 2011. The fourth quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 225 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which represents a 10 percent increase since the fourth quarter of 2010. The .com and .net TLDs reached 113.8 million names combined at the end of the fourth quarter of … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Book Makes iTunes Top 20 List
Mike Mann's Book Make Millions & Make Change has made Apple's iTunes top 20 list for a free book under the Top Business and Personal Finance Free Books Category as of time of publication. Actually the book is sitting as number 19 on iTunes under this category Congrats to Mike. … [Read more...]
Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Sells Almost $300,000 In Domain Names In February
It looks like Mike Mann who founded then sold BuyDomains.com has done it all over again with DomainMarket.com He started Domain Asset Holdings from scratch at the time most thought all the good domains were gone, accumulated over 300,000 domain names again and has built a sales team that sells hundreds of thousands of dollars of domain names a month. Mike Mann has been posting sales data … [Read more...]
All 17K+ Combinations Of Three Letter .Co Domains Now All Registered
We have confirmed with the .CO Registry and we can report that as of yesterday all possible combinations of three letter .Co domain names are registered. There are some 17,600 possible combinations of three letter domain name, otherwise referred to in the industry as LLL domains. These do NOT include letters and numbers just letters. All possible combinations of .Com domains were … [Read more...]
ARI Registry Selected To Run Registry Services For Directi’s New gTLD Division Radix
According a press release issued tonight, ARI Registry Services has announced it has been appointed as the exclusive registry services provider for Radix, a new entity within the Directi Group, that will be focused on obtaining and running new generic TLDs. "The Directi Group runs multiple successful businesses in the web services space including ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, BigRock and … [Read more...]