On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by North Sound Names in Uniregistry strings were deleted. About a month ago Uniregistry announced it would be releasing over 1,000,000 domain names it had reserved and … [Read more...]
Verisign: As Of June 30 There Are 334.6 Million Domains In The World; Up 12.9% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 334.6 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2016. The increase of approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations globally equates to a … [Read more...]
Longest Domain Escrow Ever? XND.com In Sedo Escrow For 6+ Years Just Transfers
The domain name XND.com just transferred to a new owner yesterday, someone in China. A three letter .com finding its way to China is certain not news, but what is really interesting about this domain is that is sold back in January 2010 for $10,500. The domain name according to Domaintools.com has been sitting in escrow every since. That's right over 6 1/2 years: Here is how the whois … [Read more...]
The Number of .Com Domains Pass 128 Million For 1st Time According To Verisign
The number of registered .com domain names have passed 128 Million for the 1st time according to Verisign the registry for .com. According to Verisign the number of .com domain names in the Domain Name Base as of today is 128,015,138 The Domain Name Base as defined by Verisign "is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the … [Read more...]
Ransom Paid for DavidAndGoliath.com
Usually a company wants to find it's way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile. Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opposite. David & Goliath had to "settle" for DNG.com because they could not get DavidAndGoliath.com. The domain was owned by another ad agency out of … [Read more...]
New Domain Extension .Webcam Loses 60% Of Its Registrations in a Month
.Webcam has lost around 60% of its registrations in the since mid July months according to registrarStats.com and mTLDstats.com .Webcam which is another Famous Four Media owned new gTLD domain extension, which was offered at very low pricing at Alpnames.com, had over 97,000 registration on July 15th, before its anniversary date, now has just over 34,000 registrations after losing 5,288 domain … [Read more...]
.Win Becomes 4th New gTLD To Break 1 Million Registrations
The new gTLD .Win has become the 4th new gTLD to break the 1 million domain registration mark. According to RegistrarStats.com, which also takes into account deleted domains .Win has 1,000,093 domains registered. The other 3 new gTLD's that have over 1 million domain names are .Wang (1,064,728); .Top (2,793,356); and .XYZ (6,195,695). 4 of the top 10 gTLD with the most registrations are … [Read more...]