VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015 after the market closed. Verisign Registry Services added 1.51 million net new names during the first quarter, ending with 133.0 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base, which represents a 3.1% increase over the base at the end of the first quarter in 2014, as calculated including domain names … [Read more...]
Marchex Sells Its Domain Portfolio Of 200K+ Domains To Godaddy For $28.1 Million
Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell its remaining domain portfolio of more than 200,000 domains to GoDaddy Inc.(NYSE: GDDY). Under the agreement, Marchex received cash consideration of $28.1 million from Godaddy, plus additional earn-out payments the terms of which were undisclosed including the maximum additional earn … [Read more...]
WDD.2015.Delhi SnapNames Domain Auction Gets $100K Bid On Computer.de
The domain name auction being run in conjunction with The World Domain Day conference on Snapnames.com has drawn over $400,000 in bids. All bidding is led by Computer.debut there is also a $75K bid on enetwork.com and LatinoTimes.com as well as a $50K bid on Bodyguards.com and GTR.com but none of the reserve have been met on any of those domain names yet. The WDD.2015.Delhi domain auction … [Read more...]
Afnic Report: “The Domain Market in 2014”
Aftnic.fr the manager of the .fr (France) extension, published a pretty extensive report today. The report "The Domain Market in 2014" takes a look back at 2014 and provides some interesting stats and graphs. I will highlight one topic in this post and read the full report here Legacy TLDs: highly contrasting performance in 2014 The Afnic Market Research Team has developed a methodology for … [Read more...]
Tom Delonge, Ex Lead Singer/Guitarist of Blink 182 Launches New Site On ToTheStars.Media
Tom Delonge best known as the former guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the American rock band Blink-182 has launched a new site on the new gTLD ToTheStars.Media Mr. Delonge is already running a Twitter account under ToTheStars in which it says: "The Official Twitter for To The Stars.. Alternative Media & Entertainment." Although the Twitter … [Read more...]
Sedo Opens Up For Advertising
Sedo.com is now showing advertising rates on its website. I'm not sure how long they have been showing this but I believe its a new feature Here is what the site currently shows: ""Advertise with Sedo to reach the world’s largest audience of domain investors, as well as small business owners, marketing professionals and a wide variety of other consumers all interested in domain-related … [Read more...]
World Domain Day 2015 Industry Award Winners & A Big Thanks From TheDomains.com
The World Domain Day 2015 Industry Awards were presented at the World Domain Day conference that was held in New Delhi on April 10th, 2015. We at TheDomains.com are very proud to announce we won the award for Best Domain Blog and thank the show organizers and all the voters. Here are the winners of the Awards handed out by WDD, … [Read more...]