According to Verisign the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base are back over 127 million after dropping below that number briefly in December. It seems that the huge domain registration volume that occurred in the 4Q of 2015 have now recycled through. Those domain names that were dropped after the first year of registration have now dropped and its back to business as … [Read more...]
FakeNews.com Vs Fake.News Both Asking Six Figures Who You Got?
Well the hottest topic of the week and one of hot issues coming out of the election season is "Fake News". The topic does not seem to be going away anytime soon We made contact in the last couple of days with the representatives of the domain name FakeNews.com as well as the new gTLD domain name Fake.News. The response I received from the representative of FakeNews.com after filling out … [Read more...]
Verisign: The Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations in December
Verisign published their Monthly Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations. Here they are for December 2016: .COM .NET amazon near lawn custom fake control sold core broken lock bone loans museum creek certified indian puppy adult member block Here is how the report is explained by … [Read more...]
No Good Domain Blogs? I Predicted It Back in 2011
Today Domainingtips.com posted a blog about the "The State of Domaining Blogs in 2017 " and concluded with a "there is no good answer" However we predicted this would happen in 2011: "Blogging is a tough deal. Since I started blogging, Frank Schilling stopped, Sahar stopped and most recently Rick Schwartz announced he was basically calling it a day. NewFoundNames.com also stopped … [Read more...]
MSNBC Hand Registers The Domain Name Greta.TV, As Greta Van Susteren 1st Show It Set For Monday
The domain name Greta.tv was hand registered by NBCUniversal Media, LLC the parent company of MSNBC. Last week MSNBC announced that Greta Van Susteren, the former Fox News host would being a nightly show starting on Monday January 9th. The previous owner of the domain name a Andrea Santamaria of Great Britain registered the domain name in May 2015 after the former owner allowed it to drop … [Read more...]
Curt Schilling Files UDRP on Matching Domain CurtSchilling.com
Boston pitching legend Curt Schilling has filed a UDRP on his Matching .Com domain name CurtSchilling.com Mr. Schilling has also spoken about political ambitions running for Senator against Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts' 2018 Senate race. It appears the domain names has been owned by third parties since at least 2002. The domain name CurtSchilling.com currently forwards to … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Reports Over $500K in Sales In December 2016
Namejet.com had over $500K in reportable sales in December 2016 For a domain name to make the list the domain had to sell for $2,000 or more in December and be paid for by the end of the month. 5 of the 6 top sales went to 3 character domain names. In all about 120 domain name sales were reported Here are the sales: Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]