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...]
ICYMI: The top posts of October on TheDomains
In October a lot of the focus was on registrars, and on all the definitions when it comes to brandables. The top 5 posts by views for October: Gab.com lands at Uniregistry Would you like to own a domain forever? It would have been better to lose this UDRP How do you define brandable? Uniregistry Perks have some scratching their heads Thank you for reading and … [Read more...]
VeriSign’s potential long term goal
Mike and I were discussing the VeriSign blog post today and the subsequent outrage in the domain investor community. Mike might be onto something though, these were his takes about the post, the disparaging language of calling some of your biggest customers "scalpers." and the long game for Verisign. The long game for VeriSign is about removing price caps, while these increases are nice, … [Read more...]
An interesting way to get people interested in domaining
Sometimes there are no words for a domain investor related video. You just let the cheesy waft over you. So sit back and watch a couple videos and relax. "I would say these videos are not appropriate if you have your children around, nothing terrible, but some language you might not want your kids hearing." Jamie Lewis is an Internet marketer and is the guy behind domainerelite.com. His video … [Read more...]
Would you like to own a domain name forever?
Epik announced forever registrations, a registration where you can secure a domain name in perpetuity. .COM can be secured at Epik.com for the one-time, all-inclusive fee of $420 regardless of where a domain is presently registered. Eligible forever registrations at Epik include free privacy protection, theft protection, forwarding services and unlimited subdomains all at no additional … [Read more...]
How do you define brandable?
There seems to be a never ending array of domain investors looking for "brandable" names. One of the dominant themes of domain wanted threads on Namepros. I think that the broad request of brandable might be wasting a lot of people's time. I see people argue all the time what is brandable and what is not, someone told me the mattress company that acquired Purple.com was stupid. They said, … [Read more...]
NameJet September sales see only 3 sales that reach 5 figures
NameJet reported September sales and it was a slow month. Only 61 sales over $2,000 and only 3 were in the five figure range. For those who think that 3L.com are being sold cheap they should be scooping them up at NameJet as the two 3L.com sales in September could not even reach $17,000. There were only two 4L.com sales over $2,000. I thought August.net was a decent buy at … [Read more...]
