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Companies Still Love Descriptive .com Domains
July 13, 2016 @ 6:38 AMBig companies are still snapping up .com domain names for use and protection. The release of new top level domain name options hasn’t slowed the Verisign juggernaut down. Companies still want to own descriptive and protective domains in .com, as well as .net. Here’s one example that came across my radar today. Pharmaceuticals company Allergan…
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Digital Associates Launch Domain Discovery
July 13, 2016 @ 6:10 AM“CA co-founder Russell Artzt and longtime CA chief architect Vince Re today announced the launch of Digital Associates, a New York-based software company offering cloud-based digital-marketing solutions that help companies discover, understand and analyze their digital presence. “Managing digital resources is difficult for companies of all sizes – especially larger companies, which can be responsible…
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Domain Tools Gets Some More Competition As Co-founder of CA Launches Digital Associates
July 13, 2016 @ 5:44 AMThe co-founder of Computer Assoicates, (CA) Russell Artzt and longtime CA chief architect Vince Re today announced the launch of Digital Associates, a New York-based software company offering cloud-based digital-marketing solutions that help companies discover, understand and analyze their digital presence. Digital Associates will offer a range of software-based services that bring order to the…
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Escrow.com Moves to San Francisco
July 12, 2016 @ 12:17 PMLargest domain name escrow service moves headquarters north. Escrow.com is moving its headquarters from the Los Angeles area to San Francisco, the company announced today. The San Francisco office will be led by Danny Raja. He joined the company in April. Escrow.com also announced that it has completed a back end transition to Amazon’s AWS…
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.club Does Another $100k+ Month in Domain Sales (Amazon Buys Prime .club, Alexa .club & Fire .club)
July 12, 2016 @ 10:28 AMJune .CLUB premium name sales were led by an auction of 20 names by Chinese Registrar West.CN. In all, 159 .CLUB premium names were sold in June for a total of $109,269.75. Proceeds of the auction totaled $47,590.94. In addition to the auction 139 premium names were sold by 17 different registrars. The top sale…
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New Top Level Domain Industry First Half 2016 Analysis & Insights
July 12, 2016 @ 8:55 AMChrista Taylor is the CEO of DotTBA published an infographic and new gtld analysis on CircleID. Here is a look at some of the analysis: Top Level Domain Statistics and Business Implications First Half 2016 Overview Average prices were based on prices at the end of September retrieved from 101domain, eNom, GoDaddy and United Domains…
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Escrow.com Hits 1 Million Users, Moves Headquarters to San Francisco & Expands Offices to 4 Countries
July 12, 2016 @ 8:23 AMEscrow.com announced today that it hit one million registered users and that it is moving its headquarters to San Francisco. “This follows exceptional financial performance by the payments business since being acquired by ASX-listed Freelancer.com in 2015. Gross payment volume in 2015 for Escrow.com exceeded US$430 million, growing at almost double the five-year compound annual…
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Buy It or Lose It? Governments Could Get First Dibs On Two-letter Domains
July 12, 2016 @ 6:47 AMGovernments and ccTLD registries would get new rights to own two-letter domains in new gTLDs under a proposed ICANN policy. These highly-prized domains, many of which are likely worth thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, would be subject to a mini sunrise period, under the proposal. The so-called Exclusive Availability Pre-registration Period would be…
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Delaware.com Sold By GoDaddy to The Delaware Company House LLC
July 12, 2016 @ 4:42 AMThe domain name Delaware.com has been sold to The Delaware Company House LLC whose current domain name is DelawareCompanyHouse.com According to it’s site, “the The Delaware Company House is located at 8 The Green in Dover, Delaware. If you find us on a map, you’ll see we’re steps from the Chancery Court and the Old State…
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Chinese gTLD Cranks Up Renewal Prices From $18 to $100
July 12, 2016 @ 2:52 AMChinese new gTLD registry Beijing RITT-Net has said it intends to more than quintuple its registration and renewal prices. From January 1, 2017, prices for .手机 will go up from $18 a year to $100 a year, the company said in a notice to ICANN late last month. .手机 (.xn--kput3i) is a Chinese internationalized domain…
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