According to Fastcompany.com, a piece of art work hosted on a domain name has been sold for $5,000 at the Art Basel show in Miami. The digital piece of multimedia is hosted on a URL, smokeinmirrors.net and was create by an artist named Alexandra Gorczynski According to Fast Company the sale of a piece of art hosted on a domain name is purportedly the first of its kind at a major … [Read more...]
Shopzilla Acquires Become.com Which Was Sold 10 Years By BuyDomains For $20K
Connexity, the online price comparison and shopping company formerly known as Shopzilla, has agreed to acquire e-commerce aggregator Become.com. TechCrunch reported the deal Thursday Financial terms of the acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Become-com were not disclosed. Become.com, founded by Michael Yang in 2004, had raised $37.2 million in funding from investors who include SV Angel, TPG … [Read more...]
Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin?
Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of domain names registrations containing the term "Bitcoin"? In its blog post entitled "Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream" Verisign says: "Earlier this year we used Bitcoin as an example of how domain registrations could be an effective gauge of interest in a particular subject. Our analysis demonstrated a clear … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Coupon Covered By CNET – Get Yourself a Cheap .Com
I thought it was interesting that CNET would spend some time in their deals section on a Go Daddy Coupon, and to top it off they make the headline a $1 .com when in reality it's $1.67. But here is the deal so get yourself a cheap hand reg if you like. GoDaddy offers a new 1-year .com domain name registration for $1.49 via coupon code "SAS149COM". An 18-cent ICANN fee applies. That's the best … [Read more...]
Verisign: There Are Now 280 Million Domain Names; Up Over 7.2% From Last Year
Verisign published its Domain Industry Brief for the second quarter of 2014. As of June 30, 2014 there are now over 280 Million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.4% over the first quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was … [Read more...]
Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ?
Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US. They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in … [Read more...]
Are Ad Agencies and Marketing Professionals Proficient in the Domain Game ?
Dima Beitzke the chief sales officer at Sedo wrote a piece for iMediaconnection.com that asked if ad agencies and marketing professionals are equipped to play the domain game ? The article did not get much engagement with only 4 twitter shares and 2 fb likes, there were no comments. It would have been nice to see some interaction between those out there putting campaigns together, with someone … [Read more...]