Namepros member New.Life got his wish from Santa Claus, his third five figure new gtld sale of the year. A couple of months ago New.Life sold two new gtld domains for $63,000. Hello everyone! Just sold my third xx.xxx New gtld domain this year! Domain: Open.Money Price: $25,000 USD Venue: Uniregistry (BIN) Commission: $2,500 Hold time - 7 months. Hand reg. this domain just 7 months ago … [Read more...]
Rebranding trends for 2020
Forbes published an article on the trends surrounding rebranding. Looking back at 2019 and forward to 2020. Those who own and trade short names especially .com will be happy with the continuation of even established companies to want to get shorter. From the article: Shorter Still Established companies will likely continue the effort to shorten their multi-word names to create that same … [Read more...]
Should new gtlds be viewed through the lens of a 20 year plan?
I have been under the weather this weekend so I have not been reading texts and emails right away as normal. A few people were mentioning to me the post we did a few days ago about new gtld sales. The comments become the classic com fans vs non com fans. Matt wrote one that challenged Rick Schwartz, Matt seemed to be questioning why if he had a 20 year plan for .com, why don't new gtlds get … [Read more...]
Last sale post of the year, generate some Christmas cash
Last sales post of the year, a chance to make some last minute Christmas money. I got a few emails this week asking if there would be a post? I want to say this year some have gone well others were a complete joke, people listed trash. Other professional domainers are looking at these posts not outsiders who don't know the business. Some people have listed good names and have made sales, I … [Read more...]
Verisign: third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations
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...]