According to a post on its company blog, Flippa.com sold $2.15 million dollars in domain names in 2014. "It’s been 13 months since Flippa’s Domains division officially put itself on the map. " Beginning with less than 850 open auctions, our domains platform found itself accommodating over a quarter million by year’s end. We reached $2.15 million in gross sales, a 50% increase from 2013′s … [Read more...]
My Top Picks From The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon
The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescom conference is running on Snapnames.com and closed out on Thursday at 3:15pm EST according to the normal closing rules for Snapnames.com As of publication 19 domain names have bids. Here are my favorite domain names in the auction; Those I think are the best buys: Photographers.com Its a category killer A Huge category with … [Read more...]
Another Blockbuster Sale: Vodafone Sells 360.com to 360.cn; The 49th Most Visited Site On The Internet
In what appears to be another blockbuster domain sale in two days, publicly traded Vodafone Group (Nasdaq:VOD) has sold the domain name 360.com to the company that operates 360.cn. The domain transfer took place today. 360.cn is ranked by Alexa as the 49th most visited site on the … [Read more...]
Record Setter: Porno.com Sale Is The Largest Single Domain Escrow.com Has Ever Handled
According to Brandon Abbey who has been the president of Escrow.com since 2004 the sale of Porno.com for $8,888,88 which we reported earlier today, was the largest single domain sale they have ever handled. Although Escrow.com has handled over $2 Billion dollars in transactions, and bigger domain name transactions than the $8.9 Million sale of Porno.com those where for multiple domains inside … [Read more...]
Jazz At Lincoln Center Acquires & Re-brands To Jazz.org & Some Fans Are Not Happy
Thejazzline.com, reports that the organization that operates Jazz at Lincoln Center, recently aand re-branded the organization to Jazz.org from it former address, jalc.org which is owned and operated under since it started in the early 2000's Although the story does not say how much the organization paid for the domain, it says that the domain was recently appraised for $40,000 (Estibot.com … [Read more...]
Business Insider Interview With Bidtellect – Co founded by John Ferber of Domain Holdings
Business Insider did an interview with Lon Otremba the CEO of Bidtellect an advertising company that was co founded by John Ferber of Domain Holdings. Bidtellect is the first open native ad exchange. Native advertising is becoming more popular, I have been playing around with some concepts for publications I own or co - manage. Native advertising can be less intrusive and also has shown to … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports 3Q 2014 Closed With 284 Million Domains Up 6.8%
Verisign issued its Domain Name Industry Brief for the Third Quarter of 2014. The third quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 284 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.1 million, or 6.8 percent, year over year. The base of country-code … [Read more...]