Sedo released their weekly sales and the top sale was Ampli.ca at $50,000. One of the higher .ca sales over the last couple years. Firehose.com was the top .com sale at $35,000. Sales overall were a little light this week: 45 .com sales 15 cctld sales 4 other gtld sales FidgetSpinner.com for $2,000 when the craze took off I would have thought it would have gone for 10 times … [Read more...]
Starting July 1 Google will be banning one of their most expensive keywords
Last year we published an article on the "Most expensive keywords in AdWords for 2017" The report was courtesy of WordStream. Number 2 on that list was Bail Bonds at $58.00 + per click. Google decided to ban all ads for bail bonds services. This will go in effect starting July 1, From their blog: Google bans ads for bail bonds services At Google, we take seriously our … [Read more...]
Web.com to be acquired for $25 a share or $2Billion
Web.com the company that owns Register.com and Network Solutions is being purchased in an all cash deal worth approximately $2 billion. Web.com acquired Register.com in 2010 for $135 million. Web.com acquired Network Solutions company in 2011 for $405 million and 18 million stock shares. Stock traded as high as $37.72 in March of 2014. Full Press release JACKSONVILLE, … [Read more...]
Poll Says 55.9% of Millionaires Consider Investing In Cryptocurrencies
An article on NewsBTC.com reported a poll by CapGemini that gauged the interest of high net worth individuals and their interest in cryptocurrency. No surprise there was greater interest from millionaire's who were 40 and under as compared to those 60 and over. 13% of those over 60 expressed an interest. From the article: The survey, which was based on responses from more than 2,600 HNWIs … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by SecureChain.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and SecureChain.com led the way at $30,000. OnlineCasino.mx was the number two sale at 19,600 Euros. ($22,715). 59 .com sales 15 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Bit.ch was an interest domain hack if being used that way. 8,000 Euros. ($9,271). Life.Club was the highest new gtld sale at $7,000. Domain … [Read more...]
Buyer of Vacation.Rentals believes the days of high priced .com sales are coming to an end
Mike Kugler is the gentleman that purchased Vacation.Rentals for $500,300. Currently the highest reported new gtld sale. Yes Gay.app has been touted as being sold for $1million. No confirmation by any source that industry participants rely on. A website by the name of AMAfeed.com did a Reddit style ask me anything with Mike. Some of the questions were about the website, others about vacation … [Read more...]
first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains
Verisign released their Q1 2018 Domain Name Industry Brief Of note was the decrease in new gtld registrations, they actually showed a decrease of 400,000 names. Some statistics from the report: The first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 1.4 million domain name registrations, or … [Read more...]
