Microsoft announced the rebrand of Xbox Music to Groove Music back in early July 2015 and ZDNet.com and many other sites questioned if Microsoft had acquired a company called Zikera, which was founded in 2009 and had over 1.5 Million downloads of its app according to CrunchBase. A Microsoft spokesperson said "we have nothing more to share at this time." according to the ZDNet article in early July … [Read more...]
Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD’s & Asks: Who Needs .com?
The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD's and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD's daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD's! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD's, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: "Who Needs .com? Domains … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1m led by Vybe.com
Sedo had 461 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: vybe.com at 25,000 USDTop ccTLD: shop.be at 21,100 EURTop "other" TLD: 06.org at 10,000 EURNew GTLD sales for the week included:forex.club 5,000 USDprofit.one 2,500 USDadventist.church 1,999 … [Read more...]
So What Happens When There Is a .ABC? Disney Applied For It & Its Coming
After announcing it selected the domain name abc.xyz for its holding company Alphabet, Google has been going around buying all sorts of "abc" domain names. Last week we told you that Google bought ABC.Global. Onlinedomain.com spotted 78 new gTLD's that Google registered using "abc. Last night .Club registry announced on Twitter that Google bought ABC.club. Also last night … [Read more...]
eNom.com Is joining SedoMLS Network
eNom.com just announced that it is joining SedoMLS eNom and its’ resellers’ customers will be able to sell their premium domains on the SedoMLS premium network and which includes hundreds of sales partners, including top registrars around the world. As the largest global domain distribution network, SedoMLS offers maximum exposure syndicating listed domains on more than 650 partner … [Read more...]
Wikipedia’s Traffic From Google is in Decline
Apparently Wikipedia is losing traffic that it receives organically from Google. Founder Jimmy Wales confirmed that traffic is down and that it has been going on for some time now. Most web users are used to seeing Wikipedia show up on the first page of most search queries, so why the traffic is going down is open to a couple theories. Barry Schwartz wrote on SearchEngineLand.com: I noticed … [Read more...]
Sorry Google The .XYZ Registry is Not For Sale
Reuters.com, is reporting, despite some rumors in the domain space that the .XYZ registry is going to be bought by Google, after its purchase of abc.xyz, the CEO of the .XYZ registry said today its not for sale. The CEO of the .XYZ registry Daniel Negari was quoted by Reuters that his company is not for sale. "I believe I was put on the earth to do .xyz, and to bring it to the market. "My … [Read more...]