DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) globally. Net growth over the quarter was around 1.03 million (0.3%) - a large decrease compared … [Read more...]
RightOfTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Has Over $525K in Bids Above Reserve
With several days to go before the live domain name auction from Namescon over $525,000 in domains have already received bids at or above reserve at Namejet.com; meaning they will sell according to Monte Cahn President of RightoftheDot . Here is the list of the 155 domain names that hit reserve as of January 19th along with the number of bids (although all of these will not be in the live … [Read more...]
Rightside Sells Enom to Tucows For $76.7 Million Cash
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of eNom to Tucows Inc. (TCX) for $83.5 million, less a net working capital adjustment of $6.8 million, resulting in net cash at closing of $76.7 million. eNom has approximately 14.5 million domains under management and generated approximately $116.5 million in revenue through Q3 2016, primarily … [Read more...]
Namescon/RightoftheDot Auction is One Week From Today: Here Are Some Of The Most Interesting Domains
The live RightoftheDot domain name auction at Namescon will take place one week from today on January 23rd starting at 3pm PST. I would urge everyone in the domain industry or looking to get in to attend. I will be at the conference as well. As for the auction, Remote bidding will be available on Namejet.com. Unlike in years past you will be able to bid right from your NameJet account … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Back Over 127 Million
According to Verisign the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base are back over 127 million after dropping below that number briefly in December. It seems that the huge domain registration volume that occurred in the 4Q of 2015 have now recycled through. Those domain names that were dropped after the first year of registration have now dropped and its back to business as … [Read more...]
No Good Domain Blogs? I Predicted It Back in 2011
Today Domainingtips.com posted a blog about the "The State of Domaining Blogs in 2017 " and concluded with a "there is no good answer" However we predicted this would happen in 2011: "Blogging is a tough deal. Since I started blogging, Frank Schilling stopped, Sahar stopped and most recently Rick Schwartz announced he was basically calling it a day. NewFoundNames.com also stopped … [Read more...]
How do you feel about domain investing for 2017 ?
As we start the new year I thought it would be interesting to see where reader sentiment is towards domaining. Are you more bullish about being a domain investor in 2017 or are you less bullish ? This is more a personal assessment, the future might be bright for a certain niche like two letter .coms, but most readers don't own those names. So base your answer on what you invest in and where … [Read more...]