A little less than 1 year ago, Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com, lost ADO.com in a UDRP. Gerald Levine and I wrote a piece here as well that looked at a deeper potential problem with logos. It seems like Francois successfully settled out of court and has now retained ADO.com. TRTL.com broke down the whole timeline and it looks like Francois will maintain the name. The Outcome On the 21st … [Read more...]
Waiting 19 years for the right price
Sometimes you sell a name fast and other times it takes awhile. NDVR.com sold on Monday for $40,000. A lot of people thought a "VR" name. A lot of people have speculated with 4L.com names ending in VR. Only one other LLVR name sold for 5 figures and it was VRVR.com for $40,000. Well it turns out the seller of the name posted on Namepros and mentioned he hand registered the name in 2000, held it … [Read more...]
Hemp tops list for .com and .net in Verisign’s December Trending Keywords.
Verisign released their trending keywords in .com and .net for December. Hemp topped the list for both .com and .net, usually one keyword doesn't take the top spot in … [Read more...]
Our most read posts of 2018
Here is a look at the most viewed posts that were published in 2018. Registrars and human interest stories were in the spotlight. Frustration from no sales to GoDaddy having too much … [Read more...]
What kinds of domains are you looking to buy in 2019?
So as 2018 winds down, what kinds of names are you looking to buy in 2019 and what kind do you hope to liquidate from your current portfolio? Over the last few years we have seen the run up in Chips and then watch them come back down to earth. There was a speculative surge in emojis after Michael Cyger published his guide on everything emoji. Of course new gtlds have people with opinions all … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB for Q3: Internet Grows to 342.4 Million Domain Name Registrations
Verisign released their DNIB report for the third quarter of 2018. Q3 2018 closed with approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2018. .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 151.7 million domain … [Read more...]
Tough Domains – Free Domain Development and Domain Sales Page for All
The holidays are upon us and what better gift to a domainer than free domain development and free make an offer pages. This week ToughDomains has increased its free plan from 20 domain development and domain for sale pages to support for upto 2,500 domains for free. With the release of GDPR it has become even more important to have a clear way for buyers to contact you and having a clear, … [Read more...]