2017 is wrapping up and it was quite the interesting year in domaining. It was a year when many heard of crypto for the first time and then played the part of…
Category: Domain Trends
How was your 2017 domaining experience?
At the beginning of 2017 we asked if our reader’s were bullish or bearish on domaining for the new year. 65% bullish and 35% were bearish. So how did 2017 pan out…
Crypto registrations have gone Bat Sh*t Crazy
Unless you have been focusing on other things or living off the grid you know that Crypto is white hot. With all the coverage of Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc… The interest in crypto…
After starting slow GoDaddy comes back to win best registrar again in Namepros poll
So back in 2016 there was a best registrar poll on Namepros where GoDaddy won going away. They had over 50% of the vote. So last month I posted the 2017 poll…
Big week coming up for emoji domains
Alvin Brown posted an interesting article this morning on emoji domains. There are over 1200 emoji domains coming to GoDaddy auctions over the next week. From the article: Most days, the expired…
ccTLDs make up around 40.7% of the global TLD market
Centr.org released their DomainWire Global TLD Report Q3/2017 Highlights include: Global market Global domains under all TLDs have contracted slightly due to declines in several larger new gTLDs. Without these outliers, global growth…
Verisign’s top trending keywords for October are crypto and marijuana based
Verisign released the top trending keywords for October. October was big on crypto and marijuana. Cannabis topped the .com charts and blockchain topped .net. Blockchain was also represented in .com along with…