Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 12, 2016 Two number .net sells for $135,000 Kassey Lee translated a story posted on Ename.Cn 36.net sold for $135k (900k yuan) in July 7 auction. 36 is associated with Chinese ancient essay titled Thirty-Six Stratagems for solving problems. Similar name 36.cn already developed into job site. Liberty Mutual registers FurFund.com regged since 2009 … [Read more...]
New Top Level Domain Industry First Half 2016 Analysis & Insights
Christa Taylor is the CEO of DotTBA published an infographic and new gtld analysis on CircleID. Here is a look at some of the analysis: Top Level Domain Statistics and Business Implications First Half 2016 Overview Average prices were based on prices at the end of September retrieved from 101domain, eNom, GoDaddy and United Domains. If a TLD was not found on any of these … [Read more...]
Delaware.com Sold By Godaddy To The Delaware Company House LLC
The domain name Delaware.com has been sold to The Delaware Company House LLC whose current domain name is DelawareCompanyHouse.com According to it's site, "the The Delaware Company House is located at 8 The Green in Dover, Delaware. If you find us on a map, you’ll see we’re steps from the Chancery Court and the Old State House, a short walk from most any Delaware State office you may need to … [Read more...]
The Daily Roundup for 7-11-16 – Japan VR festival too popular
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 11, 2016. Sinterklaas.nl sells for 50,000 Euros Romano Jennekens from Catawiki informed us of the sale. Yesterday we auctioned the domainname 'sinterklaas.nl' for 50k Euro at our platform "Catawiki" Sinterklaas is the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus, Sinterklaas is a holiday we celebrate on december 5th each year and where 'good kids' get presents from … [Read more...]
Quick Poll How Much Will .Web Sell For In The ICANN Auction On July 27th ?
The new gTLD .Web is scheduled to go to an ICANN auction, on July 27th. There are 8 companies in the auction and 3 of them are public. The public companies are Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and Cimpress NV (NASDAQ: CMPR) which is the parent company of Vistaprint Limited. Google has a market cap close to $500 Billion, Web.com has a market cap of $1.26 Billion while Cimpress … [Read more...]
All in All Trust in Domaining Looks Good
We have written about how much domain industry participants believe what they read and hear. The numbers were mixed with a fair number of people coming in around 50%. A recent study published by the Pew Research Center shows that trust is down all over the place. For those who get news from social media trust is abysmal with only 4% of adults polled saying they trust it a lot. National news … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Comes In First for Greatest Domainer of All Time
Greatest Domainer of All Time ? Two years ago when we asked who was Greatest Domainer of All Time ? Frank Schilling was the runaway winner. Fast forward to today and Rick Schwartz wins going away. Rick garnered 36% of the vote, 98 out of 273 votes. Frank Schilling was 29 behind at 69. Yun Ye won bronze getting 23 votes or 8%. Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll. Full results … [Read more...]