While Sedo, Afternic, Godaddy and NameJet.com all now self report its sales/auctions of domain names that sell through their platforms, one service that does not generally report the results of its auctions on any regular basis is SnapNames.com I figured I would pull the YTD report of the domain names I followed/backordered at SnapNames.com and report the selling prices. I don't think a lot … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Newcomer Stymied By ICANN and ICC’s Process
This is a guest post by Christopher R Barron, who is the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of GOProud. "GOProud is a national organization of gay and straight Americans who seek to promote freedom by supporting free markets, limited government, and a respect for individual rights. We work on the federal … [Read more...]
Roy Messer Sells BigBreakfast.com To IAC/InterActiveCorp
Domain investor Roy Messer's Nett Corp, which sold Vodka.com for $3 million dollars a few years back, just sold the domain name BigBreakfast.Com to a public company. If your thinking McDonalds or one of the restaurant groups bought the domain you would be wrong. The domain instead was bought by IAC/InterActiveCorp which owns many of the most popular web properties including Match.com, … [Read more...]
Verisign Launches of DomainScope: Domain Discovery Tool To Find Available .Com. .Net & .Tv Domains
Verisign launched DomainScope.com today which they say "a new domain name discovery tool designed to enhance the search for unique, relevant domain name choices in the .com, .net, .tv and .cc top-level domains", for which it is the registry for. "Incorporating the same functionality found in our DomainFinder, DomainScore and DomainCountdown tools, DomainScope replaces these tools and allows … [Read more...]
Key-Systems Celebrates 15th Birthday
In a press release we received today, Key-Systems is celebrating its 15 Birthday Key-Systems, which currently manages more than 3 million web addresses (domains) for more than 70,000 retail/corporate customers and 1,800 resellers worldwide, celebrates its 15th company anniversary in October. Since its foundation in 1998 the Key-Systems GmbH has emerged … [Read more...]
Up.Co Hits Times Square In A BIG Way
The .Co registry just published a pretty impressive picture of a billboard in Time Square right above the NASDAQ sign for Up.co "There’s nothing we love more than to see one of our .CO-ers succeed in a massive way. Well, except for one thing. It’s even more exciting when their massive success … [Read more...]
Google Reports Paid Clicks Up 26%; Cost Per Click Down: Has $56 Billion In The Bank: Shares Up + 7%
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. The market loved the news sending Google shares up over 7% to an all time high in after hours trading of $957 a share, up $68. For the domain name industry the takeaways are that the number of paid clicks are up again. Way up if you measure by the same quarter of 2012 where paid clicks … [Read more...]