It’s the three year anniversary of the launch of the first 7 new strings to be launched. .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures. Some believe that all the new gtlds will affect the value and sales for .com. Will .com sales eventually only become 60% of the top 100 ? (I don’t think […]
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.Co.uk dominated cctld sales in 2016
Taking a look back at country codes in 2016, the same players were at the top. Year in and year out .de and .co.uk normally top the sales charts by volume. In 2016 as reported by DNJournal.com, there were 16 .de sales and 15 .co.uk sales. The Dutch extension came in third with the .nl […]
Continue ReadingHuge Domains is a huge player on GoDaddy Auctions
Namepros member Arca put together a very interesting post on Huge Domains and their participation in GoDaddy Auctions. Now it’s no surprise that other industry players bid on domain name auctions at GoDaddy. Arca’s test showed Huge Domains winning 50% of the auctions they were monitoring or bidding on against Huge Domains. I’ve been […]
Continue ReadingAmazon tops Verisign’s top trending keywords for December
Verisign released their top 10 trending keywords for December, and Amazon was number one in .com. The Christmas holidays no doubt catapulted this one to the top. The rest of the list is rather random, lawn was number two and fake was number three. Fake had to do with fake news. .Net showed near as […]
Continue ReadingSedo takes a look back at 2016
Sedo took a look back at 2016 and no surprise .com was the dominant extension when it came to sales. The top 5 sales 1.) broker.com 375,000 USD 2.) mikihouse.com 224,224 USD 3.) ada.com 200,000 USD 4.) circa.com 150,000 USD* 5.) hotbot.com 155,000 USD *These figures were ranked descending in (converted) EUR-value; due to exchange […]
Continue Reading2016 Highlights – Chips crumble, NorthSound deletions, $135m for .Web
Looking back at 2016 there were some interesting stories, I did not think 2016 was as action packed as 2015. In 2015 we saw Mike Berkens sell his 70,000 domain portfolio to GoDaddy, the Chips started their move up and made a lot of money for some of the smaller players in the biz. Back […]
Continue ReadingBrandBucket releases November sales data
The BrandBucket newsletter came out and Michael Krell gave a rundown of what was going on in November. Keyword brandables vs invented brandables were virtually the same, right around $2,780 for the average sales price. The newsletter confirmed what we told you on Friday, you can no longer move approved domain names in your account. […]
Continue ReadingWould GoDaddy offering payment plans be a good idea ?
Namepros member Hookbox posed an interesting idea, GoDaddy offering payment plans for prospective buyers, not just big ticket domains, but names priced at say $2,500 for example. He wrote: If Godaddy were to implement a payment plan on domains I believe our sales would go through the roof. Not everyone has a few thousand dollars […]
Continue ReadingTrump top trending keyword for .com and net in November
Verisign is out with their top 10 trending keywords for November. Trump was the top keyword in .com and .net. Make and Great were also at the top. .com .net Trump Trump make cannabis great marijuana weed weed again America America again Donald Donald near president president owner pot matter Here is a look […]
Continue Reading“The majority of domains targeted via UDRP are not worth the effort”
Fairwinds Partners conducted research that took a look at Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide and then broke down the list to focus on the top 50 brands whose names were not based on generic terms and did not represent houses of brands. They came to a lot of interesting conclusions, a couple are as follows: […]
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