Sedo has three weeks of domain name sales data today. LandWolf.com was the top sale over all three weeks at $42,069. 89 .com sales in total. There were 4 .ai sales in three weeks with Reactor.ai being the highest sale at $20,000. 7/29 - 8/4 2024 Domain … [Read more...]
Google loses antitrust case related to online search
Google has lost a major antitrust case that centered around search. They of course will appeal this decision but it's certainly an eye opener to see just how much they paid Apple to be the default search on all their platforms. In a time where publishers have watched their adsense revenue shrink, there was plenty of money going round and round. According to TechCrunch Google spent $26 billion … [Read more...]
Google gives some insights on using Google Trends
A lot of domain investors use Google Trends as a way to help research or validate their research on prospective purchases and hand registrations. Google recently released a video that is worth watching. In addition Roger Montti over at Search Engine Journal did a good breakdown on the data and what is most valuable. Roger writes: in my opinion one of the most useful offerings is the … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Q2 2024 earnings beat estimates
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported Q2 2024 earnings. Revenue was up 7% year over year. Yahoo reported that second-quarter 2024 adjusted earnings of $1.10 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.8% and jumped 74.6% year over year. GDDY generated revenues of $1.12 billion, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.97% Second Quarter 2024 Business Highlights … [Read more...]
Friend.com sells for $1.88M
404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, according to its founder Avi Schiffmann and a screenshot of the transaction shared with 404 Media. The domain name is on a payment plan. That … [Read more...]
The Fading Importance Of ccTLDs when it comes to SEO
Could the SEO value of cctld's being going away? SearchEngineJournal.com published an article this morning that talks about just that. In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, the company’s Search Relations team hinted at potential changes in how country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are valued for SEO. Creative Use Of ccTLDs For Branding According to Illyes, the … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB Q2 2024 – 362.4M domain regs across all tlds
Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain name registrations increased by 5.8 million, or 1.6%, year over year. From the report: The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 170.6 … [Read more...]