Announced to coincide with the start of NamesCon Online, our ad partner DAN and Bodis have announced a partnership. I had early access to the new hybrid sales landing pages and I think it's a good move for both companies. From the release: DAN and BODIS are partnering on a unique first ever hybrid monetization-sales landing page. This partnership will finally allow domain owners to maximize … [Read more...]
Radix announces launch of Namify
Radix is entering the name spinning space with Namify, located at Namify.tech. The name-spinner is aimed at solopreneurs, small business owners and startups looking for affordable brand building solutions that include brand name, domain name, social media handles as well as a brand logo. Unlike most other brand name spinners that simply add prefixes and suffixes to the keywords inserted … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Lokal.com
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and Lokal.com led the way at 40,600 Euro, ($47,822). OOTD.com was closed behind at $40,000 and RoboticProcessAutomation.com third at 22,000 Euro, ($25,914). 54 .com sales 30 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · yhxc.net at 15,000 USD · lumen.eu at 12,999 … [Read more...]
Radix Premium Domains Report – First Half 2020
Radix's Premium Domains report for the first half of 2020 is out and here is a look at some of the performance points. $1.96M in revenue; 19% growth over H2 2019New premium registrations contributed to ~50% of the total premium revenue for this period41% jump in new premium registrations vs H2 2019$996K in premium renewal revenue.TECH was the highest-grossing TLD with $360K in premium … [Read more...]
An in depth look at domain names surrounding the upcoming election
Election Domain Names Kacey C at DigitalShadows.com wrote a very ind depth article on domain names and the upcoming election. Delving into which names are being used for malicious purposes and which are just bad for a candidates brand. She looked at domain names in three different categories: Misconfigured or illegitimate sites: Typosquats that were not correctly configured when … [Read more...]
.LU to open up 1 and 2 character domain registrations
The registry for .LU the country code of Luxembourg announced they will be opening up registrations for 1 and 2 character .LU domain names. The end of 20 years of non-availability. From the release: From 31 August to 15 December 2020, through its DNS-LU service operating the national registry for .lu, the Restena Foundation is progressively opening the registration of .lu domain names with … [Read more...]
SiteTech Group Acquires New Zealand based Domains Direct
Some consolidation in the New Zealand registry space as Site Direct announced the acquisition of DomainsDirect.nz. Scoop.co.nz reported: SiteTech Group is proud to announce the acquisition of New Zealand based company, Domains Direct, who specialise in providing low cost .nz domain names. Domains Direct will continue to operate alongside SiteTech Group’s flagship cloud and infrastructure … [Read more...]
