Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their second quarter Domain Name Industry Brief. Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020. Domain name…
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DNS traffic of the root servers is very concentrated 90% of domain names
Chris Duckett published an interesting article over at ZDNet on just how few name servers are responsible for the majority of domain names. The article illustrates the potential problems for outages as many opt for a convenient cloud based solution vs your own server. Sans Institute dean of research Johannes Ullrich looked into how many…
Branders Union Brandable Marketplace Summer 2020 report
For all the brandable domain investors out there, you might be interested in the Branders Union. An organization started by Alan August that is essentially a union of brandable investors having a collective voice. They have just published their Brandable Marketplace Report for Summer, 2020. It’s a nice report, well done and explains the background…
Domain Name Sales Action 8-19-20 Roboclean.com from $10,000 to
Domain Name Sales Action 8-19-20 Thank you for reading today on what is post number 11,000. The action on Wednesday produced three five figure sales/closes. Tuma.com sold for $42,000 to lead the way at Sedo. LinuxDevices.com was second at $23,499. This name expired and the previous website had been offline since 2013. Here is a…
A decade ago this bulk buy brought in $1.265 million
A decade ago tomorrow, Michael posted about a bulk sale of t-shirt related domain names. 5 Names in total, T-Shirts.com, T-Shirt.com, Tshirts.com, Tee-Shirts.com and Tees.com. Well it looks like one of my picks from the DomainFest auction for tomorrow, was sold tonight. Moniker.com tonight announced that it successfully brokered T-Shirts.com, T-Shirt.com, Tshirts.com, Tees.com, Tee-Shirts.com for…