Super Bowl 51 is being played in Houston Texas a week from today and just went to Houston.com to see what was going on in town around the game and found a pretty big surprise: So the biggest sporting event in the country is coming next week with all the tourism, concerts, parties that comes long with the Super Bowl and Houston.com has just "Coming Soon" up? According to Screenshots.com … [Read more...]
CENTR Report: 309.4 Million Domains At End of 2016
DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) globally. Net growth over the quarter was around 1.03 million (0.3%) - a large decrease compared … [Read more...]
Here Are The Domains In The Live RightoftheDot Auction From NamesCon Today and The Order
RightoftheDot has released the auction order for the live domain name auction that will take place starting at 3pm PST today from the Namescon conference in Las Vegas Remote bidding will be available on Namejet All bidders bidding remotely will need to sign up for a Namejet account here: … [Read more...]
.Club Announces New Broker Program & Financing Plans For 2017: Sells Nearly $1 Million in Premium Domains In 2016
.Club announced today New Broker Program & Financing Plans for 2017, while reporting its Premium .Club Name sales for 2016 and detailed sales information for the Q4 of 2016. As for the Premium Domain name Sales for 2016: "During 2016 nearly 2,000 premium .CLUB names were sold, via auctions, through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the Registry, … [Read more...]
RightOfTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Has Over $525K in Bids Above Reserve
With several days to go before the live domain name auction from Namescon over $525,000 in domains have already received bids at or above reserve at Namejet.com; meaning they will sell according to Monte Cahn President of RightoftheDot . Here is the list of the 155 domain names that hit reserve as of January 19th along with the number of bids (although all of these will not be in the live … [Read more...]
Rightside Sells Enom to Tucows For $76.7 Million Cash
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of eNom to Tucows Inc. (TCX) for $83.5 million, less a net working capital adjustment of $6.8 million, resulting in net cash at closing of $76.7 million. eNom has approximately 14.5 million domains under management and generated approximately $116.5 million in revenue through Q3 2016, primarily … [Read more...]
Namescon/RightoftheDot Auction is One Week From Today: Here Are Some Of The Most Interesting Domains
The live RightoftheDot domain name auction at Namescon will take place one week from today on January 23rd starting at 3pm PST. I would urge everyone in the domain industry or looking to get in to attend. I will be at the conference as well. As for the auction, Remote bidding will be available on Namejet.com. Unlike in years past you will be able to bid right from your NameJet account … [Read more...]