Greg Sterling wrote a piece on SearchEngineLand.com that dealt with small businesses, VC and websites. Greg starts off his article discussing that over the last few years SEO's have taken the approach that Google My Business, Facebook and Yelp have made the small business website unnecessary. GMB now is so widely used and so complete, that consumers never need to visit the underlying small … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Epik 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...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Sexe.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Sexe.com led the way at 210,000 Euros, ($231,223) The French word for Sex, The name has been registered since 1995 and owned by Virtual Network SA. The name was parked at Sedo for many years. HeyMoney.com was second at $40,000 and Madrid.net was third at 35,000 Euros ($38,344). Hey.Money sold for $8,888. 41 .com sales 12 cctld sales 6 other … [Read more...]
Number of live websites in 2019 bouncing back up after 2018 dip
Number of live websites in 2019 Martin Armstrong, published an article on the number of websites currently on the Internet. I was surprised at the drop off in 2018 but 2019 looks to be moving back to the upside. The record number of live websites was 2017 at 1.76 billion. Moz Top 500 Websites Moz's list of the most popular 500 websites on the internet. These are the top 500 most … [Read more...]
Radix Acquires .UNO tld from Dot Latin LLC
Radix a sponsor here at TheDomains has added a 10th new gtld to their portfolio, they have acquired .UNO from Dot Latin LLC. The press release below details the announcement Dubai, 7th October 2019: Radix, the world’s largest new domains registry with over 5M domains under management, has acquired .UNO, a top-level domain that was previously operated by Dot Latin LLC. The ownership transfer … [Read more...]
The number of domain names sold in 2019 has already surpassed 2018
We have just entered the fourth quarter for 2019 but the total number of reported domains sold have already surpassed the full year numbers of 2017 and 2018. The total sales volume from last year is only $6 million behind 2017 and already surpassed 2018. Looking at the last 6 months of domain sales, 2019 should surpass that without a problem. Here is the data from Namebio: I broke it down by … [Read more...]
Facebook and Google a tale of two European rulings
Two recent rulings have come out of Europe that have one Tech giant (Google) happy and another (Facebook) with potentially a lot of extra work to do to comply with European law. Facebook has now been told that EU courts can now force them to remove ‘illegal comments’ worldwide. The Next Web wrote: “EU law does not preclude a host provider like Facebook from being ordered to remove … [Read more...]