I got this email from Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales.com that they are expanding their 25 person sales team once again. A little over 2 years ago we put out the message that DomainNameSales.com was hiring and a bunch of people made a life changing move to the Cayman Islands and join the company. Well DomainNameSales.com is hiring again and they asked us to let people know they are looking … [Read more...]
ICANN Releases Results of Its 1st Global Registrant Survey
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general … [Read more...]
The DNA Launches Its Own YouTube Channel With Interviews With “Industry Leaders”
The DNA trade association launched a YouTube channel with video's from "DNA "Industry Leaders" including; Becky Burr of Neustar; Roland LaPlante of Afilias; Roelof Meijer CEO of the company that runs the .nl ccTLD; Jodee Rich of .CEO, .Best and .Kred and Jeff Sass of .Club The video are also streaming from DNA's website here The DNA YouTube Channel is here. Here are direct links for each … [Read more...]
Verisign: There are 296 Million Domains Up 5.9% Year to Year: Only 2% Are New gTLD’s
Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, as of June 30th 2015: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015, equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, year over year. The .com and .net … [Read more...]
A listing you just have to read, the comedy side of Domaining
Sometimes you can't make this stuff up, if you have a little time, need some comedy in your life, I invite you to go check out this thread on Flippa. We get some wild pitches and stories in the domain business, this one is at the top of the list for 2015. The seller is saying he already rejected a $25,000 offer on 3 day old domain in cash or 10,000 Bitcoins (BTC) which would equate to over … [Read more...]
Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For up To $12,500 Each
Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more. The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn't have registered in General Availability. The wholesale cost for a EAP day … [Read more...]
Down The Stretch We Come as the ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes Wed @ 8AM EST
The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 331 domain names have bids as of publication, including many with no reserves. You can see all the domain names in the auction here In all there are are 545 domain names in auction meaning that well over 60% have a bid. The auction starts to close over a four hour staggered period on … [Read more...]