According to VeriSign's Earnings call report for the 4th quater of 2008, new domain registrations (.com's & .net's) were down 15% in the 4th quarter of 2008 compared to the 4th quarter of 2007. In 2008 there were 6.3 million new domain name registrations, compared with 7.5 million names during 4Q 07. There are a lot in interesting information in the report including these … [Read more...]
Michael Mann On Domain Hoarding By Registrars and The WLS
This is a guest post by Michael Mann, who is responsible for this content. Michael started and later sold, BuyDomains.com, and was a pioneer in the domain industry. Michael more recently started a charitable organization GrassRoots.org whose banners frequent appear across networks of parked pages: """"In this case the illegal hoarding of domains by registrars, started by NSI, in cahoots … [Read more...]