A great article on KrebsonSecurity.com was posted that talked about an early domain investor selling a valuable and potentially dangerous domain name. According to the article Mike O’Connor a gentleman who started regging domains back in 1994 amassed quite a collection. Names such as bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. From the article: O’Connor … [Read more...]
Report: 28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users
Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put together their report. From the article: The Sample Whois XML API collected data on one million domains registered on the most popular eight TLDs by the number of domain registrations. All are gTLDs apart from the ccTLD .CN … [Read more...]
Elon Musk talks about the 10 years and $10 million to get Tesla.com
On the Third Row Tesla Podcast Elon Musk talks about the 10 year effort to buy Tesla.com. He mentioned the trademark for $75,000 buying the domain was a whole different nightmare that took us 10 years to buy that Tesla com domain. That cost was like 10 million dollars yeah that was crazy. Musk talks about the name might have been changed to Farraday which later a competitor took. Faraday … [Read more...]
Xiaomi founder, on the importance of a domain name
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Lox posted a link to a video of the founder of Xiaomi on the importance of domain names. Kassey Lee added: Well said, but Xiaomi is not easy to pronounce outside China so it's not globally oriented. That explains why they shelled out $3.6m to acquire Mi.com as its corporate … [Read more...]
“Domain trading can be the most rewarding hobby and a fantastic business if you understand it”
Nic.at published a look at domain name trading and referenced some words of wisdom from Rick Schwartz and contrasted them with a new trader starting out, Niels Buntrock. From the article: Several hours a week dedicated to domain trading Schwartz has to be something of an outlier in this industry, though. In an interview with domain.com he shares a number of his hottest tips for people … [Read more...]
Who would you choose?
Someone posed this question to me yesterday, "If you could only list at one aftermarket marketplace which would it be?" In this hypothetical the exclusivity that a BrandBucket demands would be in place for every marketplace. My vote would be GoDaddy/Afternic under this hypothetical example. So many people outside the business associate domain names with GoDaddy. I said to the person who … [Read more...]
Online.Casino the largest reported new gtld sale of all time is now live
On June 12, 2018 Donuts announced the largest reported new gtld sale. The registry sold Online.Casino for $510,000. A year later Marek from Brands.International posted a link on Namepros to a Domain Sherpa show about the SEO experts building the site. Meet the Team of SEO Experts Building Online.Casino Meet the team of SEO experts behind last year’s record-breaking new gTLD acquisition of … [Read more...]