According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday. The Telegraph siting stats from Similar Web a "digital measurement service" says traffic to BMW owned Alphabet.com that saw "an average of 3,000 desktop visits" prior to Google announcement " surged to almost 60,000 visits following Google's announcement on Monday before … [Read more...]
Google Didn’t Even Contact BMW To Offer To Buy Alphabet.com
According to a story today in the KansasCity.com, it seems that Google did not even contact BMW, that owns the domain name Alphabet.com, to see if they would sell it before going with abc.xyz The article quotes a spokesman at BMW, who said "that the automaker was not informed ahead of time of plans by Page and Brin to create a company called Alphabet and had not received any offers to buy the … [Read more...]
Negari of .XYZ On Bloomberg TV On Dominance of .Com: “I Think It’s Over”
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since Google announcement of the formation of its parent company Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The co-host of the Bloomberg West show asked the following question: There are now a Lot of choice for a domain … [Read more...]
Domainer Merlin Kauffman’s Soothe Startup Picks up $10.6M In New Funding
Merlin Kauffman is a domain name investor and president of True Magic, LLC which owns many great domain names like Exclusive.com, Lookup.com, Conferences.com, FileSharing.com, Volunteers.com, and Tabloids.com to mention a few. Merlin is also the Founder and CEO of Soothe which is an on-demand massage service which launched in April 2013. The company just picked up a cool $10.6 million in new … [Read more...]
New gTLD .LOL Has Just 772 Domain Registrations After its 1st Day: Trump.lol; Obama.lol
.LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders. Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration. Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction. There are several domain names registered of people running for … [Read more...]
.XYZ Sees Nearly 20K New Domain Registrations In 2 Days Since ABC.XYZ Announcement
Since Google Inc. announced Alphabet Inc. on August 10, 2015 around 3 PM ET and stated they will be using the domain name ABC.XYZ, the new gTLD .xyz has had nearly 20,000 new domain names registered! It started with over 6,000 .xyz domains being registered after Google's announcement. New registrations for .xyz cranked that rising total up over double in one day with 13,000+ more domain name … [Read more...]
$670.44 Per Click Advertising VS $10 Domain Name? 100 Most Expensive Keywords 2015
WebpageFX.com did a nice infograph of the 100 most expensive cost per click advertising keywords in 2015 and they range from $670.44 down to $273.33. I have parked a fair amount of domain names in my life and never had a 3 figure click payout but I also do not have that many "legal" domain names and relating keywords but 78% of the 100 most expensive keywords are in the legal vertical according to … [Read more...]