BrandBucket sent out their September newsletter, and while I know some readers believe if you don't get the actual names that sold it's worthless, I respectfully disagree. I would like the names too but I do believe any data you can attain has some value attached to it and is worth the read. Takeaways: When you take out sales over $10,000 the average sale was $2,887, so all those dreaming about six … [Read more...]
The world’s biggest AI startup is from China but its domain is not .cn
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com My college days at The Chinese University of Hong Kong were about fun, friends, and sometime aimless activities. Yet, to some, it's a place to germinate great ideas. Take Xiaoou TANG and Li XU, a CUHK professor and a PhD student respectively who in 2014 had an "aha!" moment and founded the AI startup SenseTime. Acclaimed for its facial recognition algorithm, SenseTime's … [Read more...]
Verisign trending keywords for August – CryptoCurrency, Fan and Bets
Verisign released the trending keywords for August and it was mostly a random group of names. CryptoCurrency was 10th in .com, with Football coming back fan and bets made the top … [Read more...]
Branding 2.0 and domains
Image courtesy of various brands While traditional branding (Branding 1.0) focuses on "what", domains add the "where" dimension to it. Well, I must say that I'm not a branding expert, so my knowledge about branding may be limited. As I understand, Branding 1.0 is about associating a brand with "what". When you think of a brand, you automatically think of a product or a service. Conversely when you think … [Read more...]
The Chinese domain strategy of Walmart
Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The "one .com to rule them all" domain strategy may have to include domains for each market. If you are a business owner, what … [Read more...]
In 2017 I asked – Could we do a domain auction here on Twitter? The replies were mixed
Twitter auctions have no consequences for bad or illegal behavior There was a secondary discussion point in a post on Namepros about auction houses. @MetBob mentioned he saw that Daryl Lopes auctioned a name off on Twitter and thought it was a good idea. He wrote: For those on Twitter, I see that right now @Darryl Lopes is auctioning a 4 letter .com domain on Twitter. As far as I know this is … [Read more...]
Why do Chinese companies like acronym domains?
China is the largest owner of liquid domains according to the quarterly market report by GGRG.com. These are very short .com domains such as LL (letter-letter), NN (number-number), and LN (letter-number) .com which can be sold at any time because of a large pool of ready buyers. In this article, I'll focus on the acronym (letters) domains. So, why do Chinese companies like acronym domains? I think there are … [Read more...]
Facebook, China, and Domains
He married a Chinese woman. He learned Chinese. And he connects with young Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of efforts to win friendship in China, including giving a talk completely in Mandarin at a top-notch Chinese university. Yet, Facebook is not in the Middle Kingdom. Well, it actually was in China – only for a few days. On July 18, the company name 脸书科技 (Lian Shu Ke Ji) was registered in … [Read more...]
Liquid domains did not have a good second quarter according to report
Giuseppe Graziano released his LXDO liquid domains market report for the second quarter. As GDPR takes effect, Escrow.com reports the lowest volume of sales since the start of LXDO. Giuseppe commented that the median values of disclosed transactions also recorded very large decreases in almost all categories. This calls for caution in view of the early Q3 results which are indicating sharp valuation … [Read more...]
Trending keywords for July include, Fashion, Globe and Tesla
Verisign reported their top 10 trending keywords for July. A random bunch of keywords in this report. Fashion, Globe and Tesla were in the top ten this … [Read more...]
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