Verisign published its Domain Industry Brief for the second quarter of 2014. As of June 30, 2014 there are now over 280 Million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.4% over the first quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was … [Read more...]
Someone Is Trying To Sell A Domain Still At Auction At Namejet.com
Earlier this month OnlineDomain.com, wrote about someone trying to sell the domain name iWire.com which they apparently won at a SnapNames.com but had not yet paid for. Today I got an email from someone that is trying to sell a domain name that is … [Read more...]
Coffee.Club Launches: 40% Discount Black Friday-Cyber Monday & Free Membership To A Reader Of TheDomains
Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, launched its site today at Coffee.Club on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis. To celebrate the launch, in the tradition of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Coffee.Club … [Read more...]
Braden Pollock’s Legal Brand Marketing Acquires 14 Premium Law-related .Co.com Domains
According to a press release we received, co.com LLC, announced today that Legal Brand Marketing, LLC which was founded by Braden Pollock, acquired a premium portfolio of law-related .co.com domain names, including Law.co.com and Attorney.co.com. Legal Brand Marketing, plans to develop and launch websites for each domain. Financial terms were not disclosed. Legal Brand … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Featured In Washington Post: DomainMarket Grosses $4M A Year
The Washington Post just published a post on legendary domain name investor Mike Mann, entitled "Domain-name mogul Mike Mann will sell you happybirthday.com — for $2 million" While this is far from the first press Mike has received, its a very good article in which he reveals some information I personally didn't know, such as that his DomainMarket.com "grosses around $4 million a year in … [Read more...]
SchoolLoans.com 1st Domain Name Sold For The CryptoCurrency Sync Coin
According to a press release we just received from the The Sync Foundation, the Domain-Backed CryptoCurrency has recorded it first sale. The domain name SchoolLoans.com was sold in Private Transaction, a first for the organization which backs a cryptocurrency called Sync Coin with these domain assets. “We call it ‘Proof of Concept’,” says Sync Foundation co-founder Mike Fiol. “Premium … [Read more...]
After Hand Registering Its Domain For $10, Quandl Raises $5.4 Million
The Wall Street Journal just covered the story of a startup Quandl.com which has 30,000 registered users, and just raised $5.4 million to expand. The story goes on to note that one of the co-founders of the company in 2010, Tammer Kammer is quoted as saying: "My eureka moment came when I thought how is it that in 2010 all human knowledge is consolidated on Wikipedia and quantitative … [Read more...]