The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started AO.com which just went public in London. "John Roberts, 40, founder of online appliance retailer AO.com, set up the company after realizing that the long supply chain for ‘white goods’ such as dishwashers and fridges was adding needless … [Read more...]
While Most of the domain industry debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it up selling numeric domains
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN the first half of February. Over the last week things have picked up with some of the biggest sales ever in the history of the site. 920.com which sold on … [Read more...]
Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has more than 38,000 registration and the soon to be released .Ninja and the later to come .Expert The domains are priced at $25 at Godaddy making … [Read more...]
Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A&E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported to us that the buyer is A & E Network who is using the domain name FYI.TV to re-brand its Bio network. The Hollywoodreporter.com confirms that A … [Read more...]
Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer to the study ICANN. On its company blog Verisign, in a post entitled "Uncontrolled Interruption? Dozens of “Blocked” Domains in New gTLDs Actually Delegated", Verisign in part says: The report "centers on the technique of … [Read more...]
Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI), which owns Dotster.com, Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting company's, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Fourth Quarter Highlights Revenue increased 17% to $136.4 million compared to $117.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2012. Adjusted EBITDA … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period
An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolve a name used in a private name space results in a query to the public Domain Name System (DNS). "This report takes an in-depth look at the … [Read more...]