Stuart Lawley who most know from .xxx, (which he sold to MMX for $41million) has a new business and it's called AVSecure.com. The business is using the blockchain to provide age verification. AVSecure enables the consumer to manage access on their local devices rather than through an unrelated remote network. The consumer's browser becomes the central point in the process, not the servers or … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines update on current operations
Business Update and Notice of Results Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), one of the world’s leading owners and operators of Internet Top-Level Domains ("TLDs"), reports significant continued operational progress across a number of business activities since its trading update announced earlier this year in January 2017. Update on .vip and Asian Expansion Strategy In May … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not Non-Renewals
Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations in 13 of its new gTLD's due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds + Machines that the deleted domain names were not the result of non-renewals; but was the result of Minds + Machines "unwinding its Emerald Names initiative and moving premium inventory back into the retail channel that … [Read more...]
The First Month Of .VIP (infographic); 418,000 Domains; $6M+ Revenue
A new infographic was just released on the first 30 days of the new gTLD .VIP and what a 30 days it was. Over 418,000 registrations, total billings exceeded $6 million dollars, and 48 .VIP domain names have sold at auction with an average selling price of almost $23,000. The infographic has plenty of information highlighting this most successful launch which did not include any free or … [Read more...]
Six .VIP premium domains Total 1,334,000 CNY at Auction
6 .VIP domains sold for 1,334,000 CNY at West.cn according to a press release from Minds + Machines. The news was also reported on Ename.cn. Press release from MMX.co Six .VIP premium domains were auctioned on West.CN—a Chengdu-based registrar in China—on May 31st for a total of 1,334,000 CNY, or approximately 202,671 USD . The 6 premium names sold were D.VIP, 66.VIP, YY.VIP, ZT.VIP, … [Read more...]
Source: .VIP Sold 30,000 Premium Domains Including Google’s Reg of Alphabet.VIP For $10K
A source who has access to such information, has informed TheDomains.com that .VIP sold approximately 30,000 in premium domain names totaling around $1.3 million dollars through the end of its first day of general availability (GA) Premium domain names are those having a higher price than the normal registrations fees than a regular domain registration as set by the registry who sets the … [Read more...]
.Law Gets 5K Registrations in 1st 90 days: We Break Down The Numbers
According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new ".law" and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, "announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or … [Read more...]