Verisign Q3 2019 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 359.8 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Third Quarter of 2019 Data shows that the third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 5.1 million domain name registrations, or 1.4 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2019.1,2 Domain name … [Read more...]
Reported new gtld sales in 2019 down over $2million from 2018
2019 was not a great year for reported new gtld sales, after 2018 saw dollar volumes rise by 700,000, 2019 is looking down over $2 million. Of course there will be those that will say many sales go unreported, that's true for all extensions so nothing special with that remark. There are some that are doing well like Chad Wright's WebQuest, they placed 4 of the top 26 sales. New.Life charted a … [Read more...]
Neuvoo.com to become Talent.com
Neuvoo is a job board that operates at Neuvoo.com. The company does not have a great rating over at TrustPilot with 92% of ratings as bad. Of course you never know competitors could be playing games and giving bad ratings, I don't know. Glassdoor ratings are better, Glassdoor for those who don't know focuses on employee/former employee sentiment. The company is however getting an upgrade at … [Read more...]
Wow A $147,000 haircut?
Sexe the French word for Sex sold in the .org extension back in 2008, by none other than the founder of this blog, Michael Berkens. Michael sold the domain name for $151,400 at his website MostWantedDomains.com. The buyer was a French company that looked like this back in 2008. (No nudity but still NSFW). There was even mention of the acquisition price, translated into English: Domain … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Xchange.com
Sedo released their weekly sales, (the last report for 2019) and Xchange.com led the way at $42,077. Meds.co was second at 18,750 Euros, ($20,898). Oakbrook.com was third at $13,500. 35 .com sales 16 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Efty 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also … [Read more...]
ArsTechnica tries to get PIR to open up about .org
Ars Technica published a piece today on the pending .org sale. In another attempt to get PIR to release documents, Ars Technica reported that they contacted PIR today and they claimed they cannot release documents due to confidentiality agreements. From the article: CANN says it wants to make the transaction-review process more transparent. But ICANN apparently needs PIR's permission to … [Read more...]