CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) announced today that it has named Stuart Fuller as Group Commercial Director heading up worldwide sales activities. "Mr. Fuller joins the company after eleven years at domain name retailing, corporate domain name management and brand protection firm NetNames (formerly Group NBT) where he was responsible for commercial operations for the group. His earlier career was in … [Read more...]
NAACP fails to renew Nigger.com, Domain Now On Auction At NameJet
There are names and then there are names, some are so controversial and vile that most people would never want any association with them. We wrote back in December about the uproar surrounding the domain name Retarded.com being auctioned at Namescon. Well now what is one of, if not the most offensive word in the English language, so offensive it is usually only mentioned as "The N Word" has … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Rick Schwartz Thinks Use of Domains In The Super Bowl Over Hashtags Is A Game Changer For The Domain Industry
Legendary Domain investor Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King, wrote to me about the post we published about earlier this week from MarketingLand.com, that Domain Names appeared in substantially more television commercials that aired during the Super Bowl than Hashtags and Facebook Pages. He thinks it's a game changer, a reset in the importance of Domains. So here are Rick's thoughts and … [Read more...]
The Top 5 for 2-10-17 A 6N.com leads the way
The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. The top close on Friday was a numeric domain, 896666.com closed at $9,610 on NameJet. 2. Top-Ten.de sold for $9,516 on Sedo. The buyer was Top-ten-research.de. TopTen.de redirects to Budoland.com so getting the non hyphenated version was not an option. 3. Qinghe.com closed at $7,210 on … [Read more...]
.Ceo and .best to release 1 and 2 character domains
Cameron Bale from PeopleBrowsr.com dropped me a note to let me know that the .Ceo and .best registries will be releasing 1 and 2 character names on Feb 20, 2017. When you click the google docs link it will show you pricing. Releasing 2 Char domains Releasing over 30,000 Reserved Names Reducing the prices of over 3,000 Premium Domains See the lists for … [Read more...]
The Top 5 for 2-9-17 Lows.com closes over $100K
The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. The top sale on Thursday was a big one, Lows.com closed at $104,501 on NameJet. Lowes is a big home improvement retailer operating on Lowes.com. This domain was registered in 1997, once owned by lows furniture. 2. FreeVideoPlayer.com closed at $33,000 on GoDaddy auctions. Registered in … [Read more...]
The Top 5 for 2-8-17 TFS.com sells for $47,250
The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. The top sale on Wednesday was TFS.com which closed at $47,250 on NameJet. Looked to be developed back in 2008, parked for years after. 2. Brain.ai Namebio is showing this at $5,100, I watched the auction close on Sedo at $9,000 and emailed Michael at Namebio to ask why it's showing … [Read more...]