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...]
NameJet/Snapnames sales for September led by Kura.com
Web.com released the September sales report for NameJet/Snapnames and Kura.com led the way at $68,495. LWM.com was second at $28,009. 81 total sales in total $2,000 or more. 10 non com sales with Images.org being the high … [Read more...]
Namepros takes further steps to protect it’s moderators
Namepros has made a change with regards to moderator identifiers, amidst threats spelled out in the post below, Namepros smartly has moved to mod team id's. In March of 2018 Eric Lyon was receiving threats and had his role changed at Namepros. In February of 2017 Namepros reached 1million discussions and it sucks to see things get to this level. I was a mod there for 12 years but I cannot say … [Read more...]
Can Facebook prevent it’s financial partners from abandoning Libra?
Since Facebook announced it's plans for Libra in June, many domain investors climbed on board the Libra domain name train. With a lot of excitement for both Facebook Libra and domain registrations, optimism was high. That optimism might need to be tempered a bit, an article in the Wall Street Journal speaks of financial partners like Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and others are having second … [Read more...]
