In my case, there is absolutely nothing to report when it comes to end user offers but then again, my new gTLD portfolio is quite small. Therefore, I'm hoping those of you with larger portfolios can chime in and let us know how things stand up until this point. If possible, let us know how many

DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures Back in 2011, I think that was around when Epik.com announced it's dropcatching service, I had purchased one credit for $59 to see how well the service worked. I have attempted 12 different times to use my backorder credit, that you must pay for in advance before even catching the domain. (dumb, I know) N...

VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the registry for .Com and .Net reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2014 after the market closed today and lets face it .com and net growth are basically stalled. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $250 million for the second quarter of 2014, up 4.6% from the same quarter in […]

Heritage Auction Results total $773,876 which includes the Buyers Premium of 15 % The Heritage auction wrapped up today and the big sellers were Digital.com and Cute.com. Digital sold for $325,000 and with the buyers premium the total comes to $373,750. Cute.com sold for $200,000 and the buyers premium brought the total to $230,000. 16 […]

Google registering MusicKey ccTLDs. Is this the name of its new music service? Usually, when I see a company registering a bunch of similar domain names, I can track it down to a new product announcement. I'm a bit unclear about recent Google domain name registrations for "MusicKey" domain names, but I suspect it might […]

DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures Welcome to the latest company domain movers which I like to call DotWeekly Discoveries. This series is always interesting to see what large companies are buying and registering domain names. I try to include some information related to the purchase and or registration of domains when I can find it, so enj...

Virtual tradeshow is clunky but presents a good opportunity to chat with domain name companies. I remember going to a virtual tradeshow about a decade ago. It was clunky and hard to use. Apparently that's the case in 2014 as well. I just attended Webfair Virtual, an online tradeshow featuring a bunch of domain name […]

Last night venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky discovered .CEO and tweeted his thoughts on it to his 275,000 followers: Conversation obviously followed. One person noted: Kedrosky responded "Exactly." Another comment: To which Kedrosky responded "And that exact thought had already crossed my mind." There are some other colorful comments. Not every com...

Domain sales charts — expired or otherwise — make for some strange bedfellows. Any given week presents an orgy of bizarre juxtapositions. What else but the domain market can bring together Bill Cosby and French Marxists? Malaysian tourism for New Yorkers alongside Azerbaijani gossip in the ccTLD of Western Samoa? (I'm referencing TheCos...

In the last year, GoDaddy has made three Boston-area acquisitions. The company acquired Waltham-based Afternic, Cambridge-based Locu, and Cambridge-based Canary. Because these three companies were based in the Boston area and are primarily staffed by locally-based employees, GoDaddy recently opened an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According t...

The City of New York is working with Panama-based registrar CCI REG to reserve government-related domains in the new .nyc gTLD, despite imposing residency requirements on registrants. CCI REG director Gerardo Aristizabal tells us it has already handled over 100 registrations during the "City Government-Affiliated Reserve List" phase of .nyc's protr...

FastCo Labs is out with an article today about Donuts and how they became the world's largest registry overnight. I think the author forgot about Verisign who has many more domains under its wing than Donuts. In the article Daniel Schindler one of the co-founders discussed things like specificity and how they thought long and […]

The weekly sales were slow this week at Sedo which is normal considering its summer and a busy time for vacations in North America and Europe.  GCA.com took the top spot at $90,000.  Here's a look at the rest of this week's sales Domain name Price Currency .COMs gca.com 90000 USD logics.com 50000 USD pdn.com 27900 USD vivamedia.com 10000 GBP ghealt...

Why do people still cybersquat ? That was a question posed a couple of weeks back on Namepros, and while I am not advocating it any way, I am going to give an example of how it still pays off in 2014. PluralSight.in sold on Wednesday for $16,000. The domain was registered in July of […]

Here is the second edition of a look at a few recent LLLL.com acquisitions which have been put to use…..with acquisition prices as low as $125. Last week's first edition can be found here. XOVI.com sold for $25,000 in May 2014 and is currently owned by XOVI GmbH. An addition to the .de, which is a separate live site in German. The website tit...

Over the next few weeks I'll be testing and writing up my experiences with a range of aftermarkets including: DNS (Domain Name Sales) GoDaddy Auctions Namejet Sedo Flippa A few other surprises While my focus is on selling domains, I'll also be looking at things like: Application process Quality of support Quality of other names ... The post The Bes...

After 14 years of on/off relationship with GoDaddy, it's game over and I'm in the process of moving out every single one of my 250+ domains there. GoDaddy failed miserably to acknowledge and satisfy a simple customer request, preferring to keep $14 instead of retaining a customer. The GoDaddy customer representative and their supervisor who […...

DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures This post is written by the website broker team from DigitalExits.com . Reach out to them if you want a value on your developed domains. So you bought a killer category domain name and decided to develop it into a business. You've put in the hard work to get it developed, drive traffic to it and convert s...

In February we told you about plans Michael Marcovici of DomainIndex.com had to stage the first virtual domain conference online this summer. Well, that event, called Webfair Virtual, finally arrives tomorrow (Thursday, July 24) with the virtual doors opening at 6am U.S. Eastern Time.

Revenue was up 8% in the quarter, some of which is attributed to the company's acquisition of .Co. Neustar reported second quarter earnings after the bell today. Revenue was up 8% and adjusted net income was up 1% compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company's Security Services segment reported 28% growth, 12% […]

Neustar, Inc. (NSR), today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2014, and reaffirmed its guidance for 2014. Results for Second Quarter 2014 Compared to Second Quarter 2013 Revenue increased 8% to $237.5 million Revenue from Marketing Services increased 19% to $35.0 million Revenue from Security Services increased 28% to $34.4 million Ne...

Several domain name auctions end tomorrow, including two online-only auctions. The big fireworks may come from the Heritage Auctions domain name auction tomorrow, but there are two other auctions ending as well. Sedo's monthly GreatDomains auction concludes tomorrow at 12:00 pm EDT. So far three domain names have hit their reserves, including the h...

The story regurgitated more often than a goat's dinner, is that Chinese love numbers. Numeric domain names are thus used as coinage, more or less retaining their intrinsic value, but not all numbers are created equal. Chinese domain name marketplace, 4.CN, is taking a bold rebranding move, as number four means "death" in Chinese. "It's […] Co...

It's been a full year since the last chapter of ‘MannQuotes‘ – tidbits of conventional wisdom from domain entrepreneur, Mike Mann. Mike's recent sale of MakeSomeNoise.com for $40,000 dollars, a domain he paid less than $1,000 on, shows that Mike possesses a magnificent instinct. When three-word domains produce such a great ROI, th...