Verisign published their Q4 2018 DNIB report The fourth quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 348.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 6.3 million domain name registrations, or 1.8 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2018.1,2 Domain name registrations have grown by approximately 16.3 million, or 4.9 percent, year over … [Read more...]
Making a fortune squatting domains on the Dark Web?
Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network. From the article: A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years. The scammer says 800 … [Read more...]
Is it still too early for emoji domains?
Page Howe was mentioned in an article on ieee.org. The article took a look at emoji domains and why they do or don't make sense. Page has been outspoken about his belief in emoji domains and gets a couple paragraphs. From the article: People like Page Howe, a domain and digital asset investor, are bullish on URL emojis. “If I said to you, ‘you can be the teddy bear emoji dot double-u ess,’ … [Read more...]
That is some expensive pigeon shit
via GIPHY Think domain names are getting expensive? A racing pigeon just sold for $1.8 million. Apparently pigeon racing is big business in China. The National Post wrote a story, from the article: The victorious pigeon fancier, whose identity is a secret, spent more than $1.8 to land Armando, a Belgian bird considered to be the “best long-distance pigeon of all time”. The previous record … [Read more...]
Nobody cares if you are a reseller
One of the most common topics or posts on a domain forum is someone is looking to buy domain names at the mysterious "reseller or wholesale" price. There are two elements I would like to discuss, the psychology or method behind using the term, and secondly what are these prices? I don't think a lot of people have any clue, requests will include Looking for 4L (CVCV), 3L , One word , … [Read more...]
From one end user to another, Blume.com finds a new owner
When a company cannot get their exact brand name in .com some go with a .co or .io and others look for a common prefix like, get, try or buy + their name.com. Blume is a women's personal care company based out of Vancouver that is using the prefix "Meet" so meetblume.com is where their website resides. It looks like another company by the name of Blume Construction out of Peoria, IL … [Read more...]
Translate.com new owner revealed
Last November I wrote about Translate.com closing at $853,000 on Flippa. This was a developed website. I kept checking the whois and said to a friend maybe it did not sell because there was no update. Well now it's updated, the buyer was revealed on Slator.com as they found a Ukranian website that revealed the buyer. However, in early February 2019, Ukrainian website Vector revealed the … [Read more...]