Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy. Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com auction platform. What amazed me was these were registered on the 1st day of .Co availability. With an almost unlimited selection of domains people still registered crap. So many horrible … [Read more...]
Looks Like Bankrate.com Is A Huge Domainer Spending Over $90 Million In Domains
According to some SEC filings it appears Bankrate.com apparently is becoming a major domainer having spent over $90 million dollars in domain names. Actually the total amount spent was Over $170 million but $90 million is what they allocated to the cost of the domain names in acquisitions Here are some of the domain names they have acquired; carinsurancequotes.com -- "Approximately $7.5 … [Read more...]
National A-1 Takes Down Escort.com & Escorts.com
We haven't heard much since Federal and State law enforcement raided the offices of National A-1 in October 2010. At the time we noted that one of National A-1 sites, escorts.com might have been the subject of the probe and it now appears that both Escort.com and Escorts.com, both owned by National A1, are offline. Both Sites now return a white page with only these words appearing on … [Read more...]
Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Adds Registrars Key-Systems and DomainMonster.com
According to a Press Release today: Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) signed up two new registrars: German-based Key-Systems and UK-based MeshDigital which owns DomainMonster.com Key-Systems is Europe’s second largest ICANN-accredited registrar, and a top twenty global registrar, with 1,700 worldwide resellers and more than 3,000,000 domains under management in the portals RRPproxy.net, … [Read more...]
What Is The Domain Market Worth? Ex-ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush Says Its “Worth $12 Billion”
Peter Dengate Thrush former Chairman of the Board of ICANN told reporters today that the "current domain name market is worth about $12 Billion Dollars". "We think it will expand by some $3-4bn with the new gTLDs." Mr. Thrush told a reporter for cityam.com So what do you think of Mr. Thrushes estimate of the value of the domain name market? High, low or just about right? … [Read more...]
Trafficz: Yahoo Limits Daily Revenue on .Tv, .Co, .Biz., Info and .US Domain Names
According to an email we received tonight from TrafficZ, Yahoo started to impose a "daily revenue cap" on certain extensions, .Tv, .Co. .Biz, .Info and .Us The notice makes it clear that this is a Yahoo decision not a TrafficZ decision. We have reached out to TrafficZ for further explanation and will let you know how they respond. We also reached out to the .Co registry and the .Tv … [Read more...]
Marchex Wins the Domain Lottery With TheHelp.com
The Help Its the number 1 seller on Amazon.com and this week the movie based off the best seller is opening nationwide The movie is already getting some Oscar buzz. Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX) is the lucky owner of the domain name TheHelp.com, which according to Compete.com as of June had already experienced a 8X jump in traffic and should get plenty of traffic for the next few months. Of … [Read more...]