Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with 3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs were priced … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group, the company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, (LON:MMX) released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD strings it applied for. During 2013 M+M participated in six private auctions in which it … [Read more...]
Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for .Bid
I see a couple of "premium" domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I don't get these. Many of the terms make sense but they are backwards. Many of these domain would be good domains, except that the terms starts with … [Read more...]
Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam
In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were " for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry" including Tube.Webcam; Asian.Webcam MILF.Webcam With this sale Famous Four has basically made back the money it spent acquiring the … [Read more...]
GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks”
Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO & Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, … [Read more...]
Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday
Famous Four Media's first new gTLD extension go live tomorrow Monday June 9th at noon EST. Famous Four which applied for over 60 new gTLD's first new gTLD's are .Webcam, .Trade and .Bid. All three new gTLD's are priced at $39.95 at Godaddy and are of course available at a ton of registrars. I would assume that .Webcam will do the best of the three with a heavy adult … [Read more...]
New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 1 Million (With some Caveats)
New gTLD Domain Name Registrations has just passed the 1 Million domain name mark according to ntldstats.com. The official ntldstats count is 1,001,461. Of course thedomains as well and other blogs have pointed out there should be some caveats to the numbers. For one North Sound Names owned by Frank Schilling who also owns several live new gTLD's has over 43,000 registrations of the … [Read more...]