Drew Macpherson who says he is the head of the Premium Team at Rightside (NAME) explains Rightside definition of a Premium mew gTLD domain and the various levels they have. In the post Rightside says they have sold over 675 domains at an annual renewal of $1,000 or more per year. Here is the highlights of the blog post "I’ll be one of the first to admit that new TLD registries didn’t do … [Read more...]
DomainX 2016 Selects India Shangri-La’s; Eros Hotel & We Have a 40% Discount For Our Readers
DomainX 2016 announced that they hare holding their "massive event" at Shangri-La's - Eros Hotel, on New Delhi to be held on August 5th, 6th and 7th, 2016! and is offering readers of thedomains.com a 40% discount off the registraton fee for today only. According to a press release we received, DomainX gets together the country’s top domain name industry professionals and provides them a … [Read more...]
Namejet Reports Over $1,250,000 In Domain Sales In April
Namejet.com reported over $1,250,000 in domain name sales in April 2016. Only domain names that sold for $2,000 or more are included and only those domains that sold and were paid for in April are included All sales were led by 746.com at $121,000 The next 4 highest sales were 3 letter .Com domain names. 11 out of the top 14 sales in April were three-letter .com domain names including … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP on DomainKing.biz
Rick Schwartz's company Virtual Dates, Inc has filed a second UDRP based on his "Domain King" federally registered trademark, this time on the domain name DomainKing.biz. About a month ago Rick Schwartz filed a UDRP on the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. At that time Rick told TheDomains.com that the UDRP on the domain DomainKing.ng was "the first … [Read more...]
Google Misses On Revenue & Earnings; Shares Sink As Much As $50 After Hours
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 and missed earnings and revenue forecasts sending shares down in after hours trading by $50. Shares are currently down over 6% and have been bouncing down between $40 and $50 a share Q1 2016 financial highlights The following summarizes our consolidated financial results for the quarters … [Read more...]
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). The increase of approximately 15 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 5% over the third quarter of 2015. … [Read more...]
Go Daddy invites you to join the “Customer Council”
Go Daddy sent out an email about customers joining a new "Customer Council" that they say will you have some input into new products and services. You need to fill out a survey when you click the link in the email. No compensation but there is the mention of special drawings. Full text of email: We are putting together a select group of GoDaddy users to help shape our future! We are calling … [Read more...]