Verisign released their Q1 2018 Domain Name Industry Brief Of note was the decrease in new gtld registrations, they actually showed a decrease of 400,000 names. Some statistics from the report: The first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 1.4 million domain name registrations, or … [Read more...]
Betting names dominate trending keywords for May
Verisign released their trending keywords for May and with the recent change in sports betting laws no surprise that Sports, Bet, and gambling made the top 10 for … [Read more...]
Facebook launches gaming portal on FB.GG
Facebook launched their gaming creator portal on a .GG domain. The country code for Guernsey has become popular for esports. Facebook is using the domain name FB.GG. Some background: Wikipedia info .gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey, including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou (plus several uninhabited islands and … [Read more...]
How would new players have done back in the day?
So there have been some good discussions about old timers and how they would do today, or if they are still relevant? An article I wrote on TLDinvestors got a lot of engagement both on the blog and on Namepros. A lot of the comments focused on Rick, some gave great praise, others went the other way with a gem like this: These days Rick is more out of touch with the domain industry than … [Read more...]
Post the best name you have for sale for $1,000 or less
Let's start June off with a weekend sales special. This post should be used to sell a name where you are making some money with no commission, and leave a little for the next buyer. Every once in awhile there will be a comment about do we expect great names listed for $1,000? come on. No we don’t expect a great name, it’s about a name you want to sell that another domainer would want to buy, … [Read more...]
Transfer problems out of Pheenix
Customers of Pheenix.com received the following notice the beginning of May, EnCirca (www.encirca.com) was selected by ICANN to manage the bulk transfer of domain names from 49 Pheenix-related registrars recently terminated by ICANN. EnCirca was founded in 2001 and is based outside of Boston, Massachusetts USA. Here is what to expect as we transfer over your domain names from Pheenix to … [Read more...]
Here we go again, Gay.app sold?
Looks like .App is now getting it's first "supposed big sale" moment. Let me make clear there is no verification of this sale and it's being written about more from a what the heck? point of view. If it turns out to be legit we will find out, the organization being mentioned should want to put these rumors to bed if not true. A twitter account @domain tweeted that Gay.app sold for $1million. … [Read more...]