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Fifth Week In A Row For Pair of 6-Figu...
It's the fifth Domain Name Journal chart in a row of top reported domain name sales where at least a pair of six-figure sales have topped the chart. In the week ending 16 December packet.com topped the chart in a $350,000 sale through LegalBrandMarketing followed by ore.com ($100,000) and ntd.com ($75,000), both sold through BQDN.There were 16 .com sales in the top 21 (a tie for 20th place) and one each for .org, .de, .es, .me and .eu. On the aftermarket
When your brand is a misspell of a mis...
So I was watching tv the other day and saw a commercial for a company called Blooom. I was like wait three o's? Now of course the add an extra letter, misspell has been en vogue over the last 8 years. Fiverr.com probably the most famous example, then BrandBucket started accepting a lot of misspelled names. In their December newsletter BrandBucket listed misspells as 6% of all keyword related sales. So now the problem with the misspell on Blooom is that Bloom.com is a developed website. How do
The Year in Review and the Year Ahead ...
The latest in the Domain Pulse series of Q&As looking at the year in review and the year ahead comes from a domain investor's registrar perspective. Today Marc McCutcheon from Internet.bs, part of the rapidly growing CentralNIC group, discusses how CentralNIC's merger with Key-Systems brought a lot of hard work and some incredible opportunities, GDPR is a good thing, registrars offering below-cost .com domain names is unsustainable, there are too many new gTLDs f
DotBERLINs Dirk Krischenowski On How I...
The Domain Pulse Q&A series looking at 2018 in review and ahead to 2019 today has dotBERLIN's Dirk Krischenowski. Krischenowski has been involved in the ICANN new gTLD programme since its infancy over a decade ago and was one of the founders of the .berlin project. Today dotBERLIN has become the fourth largest geographic TLD with over 54,000 registrations, an impressive feat given that the 3 cities ahead of Berlin are much larger cities by population Tokyo, New
Afilias Roland LaPlante Reviews 2018 a...
Today Domain Pulse has Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Afilias participate in our Q&A series looking back on 2018, forward to 2019 and his views on GDPR, how new gTLDs are performing and how relevant are domain names today. He also expresses concerns as to how the entire 'ecosystem is grappling with the intersection of government desire for control (protection) and the historically open internet.'Afilias is the w
EURid on 2018 In Review The Year Ahead...
Domain Pulse is asking domain name companies and industry figures to give us their highlights and lowlights of 2018, what they're thinking will be happening in 2019 as well as their view on the EU's GDPR, the future of domain names and how Brexit is impacting them. The first cab off the rank is EURid, manager of the .eu top level domain.What were the highlights, lowlights and challenges of 2018 in the domain name industry for you?The European Commission's notice