It’s been an exciting few days here in Asheville as an eclectic group of domain investors traveled from near and far to share visions, dreams, and ideas to help one another and the domain industry in general. The farewell breakfast Saturday morning and the Brewery Tour that same afternoon were just the activities to put a nice bow on all the good accomplished over the last few days. … [Read more...]
ExerciseBalls.com drops – the name has been around the block
ExerciseBalls.com closed at DropCatch yesterday for $5,212. This was the third time the name sold, each time for a lower price. However there is one other step along the way, it sold as a website a little over 2 years ago on Flippa for $10,650. Ali Zandi was the seller of the website. From the sales listing: Background The domain ExerciseBalls.com was acquired in 2015 from SnapNames after … [Read more...]
Verisign reports Q2 earnings – ended the second quarter of 2019 with 156.1 million .com and .net registrations
Verisign (VRSN) reported earnings today, they reported net income of $148 million and diluted earnings per share (diluted “EPS”) of $1.24 for the second quarter of 2019, compared to net income of $128 million and diluted EPS of $1.04 for the same quarter in 2018. The operating margin was 65.9 percent for the second quarter of 2019 compared to 63.8 percent for the same quarter in 2018. … [Read more...]
Over 50% polled would not pay more than $999 for a domain name
So I started a poll a few weeks ago on Namepros which closed yesterday. The question posed was the following: What's the most you'd pay for a domain in the aftermarket? Over 53% would not pay higher than $999 with 16.7% saying they only hand reg. Nothing; I only hand reg 104 vote(s) 16.7% $100 73 vote(s) 11.8% $101 to $499 78 vote(s) 12.6% $500 to $999 75 vote(s) 12.1% $1,000 39 … [Read more...]
Verisign’s Top trending keywords in June – Libra, Casino
Verisign released their top 10 trending keywords for June and no surprise, the top spot was Libra. I wrote a couple articles last month on people registering Libra domains. .COM .NET Libra Libra Snafu Casino Psychedelic Bet Currency Long Ceramic Asera Employer Clinic Pottery Poker Impact Boat Regenerative London Manual Dust … [Read more...]
Verisign Q1’19 DNIB: Internet Grows to 351.8 Million Domain Name Registrations
Verisign released their first quarter DNIB report for 2019. Notable findings in the report include: · Q1 2019 closed with approximately 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a 0.9 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 and a 5.4 percent increase … [Read more...]
Is it still too early, or too little, too late for emoji domains?
It’s always interesting to travel back through time, and examine the lifecycle and events of a trending topic, especially when it relates to domains. Now having been entrenched or involved with domains for the last 7-8 years, I find that the domain industry is not an exception. There have been a number of trends — blockchain, crypto, bitcoin, 4L .coms, numeric, and emoji domains to name a few — … [Read more...]
