NEW YORK, NY – Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as Mainan.com at $20,000 USD, the top ccTLD as Me.io at 10,000 GBP ($13,197.15 USD) and the top other as Salud.info at $4,500.00 USD. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 10/09/2017 – 10/15/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 10/02/2017 – 10/08/2017
NEW YORK, NY – Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as Wealth365.com at $60,000 USD, the top ccTLD as Truss.co at $12,500 USD and the top other as Skin.clinic at $2,500.00 USD. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 10/02/2017 – 10/08/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to Rackspace Executives: Your Level of Service is Rapidly Declining
NEW YORK, NY – That’s it, I had to let them have it today. After many complaints over the phone with support techs that do seem to feel my pain and confirm my suspicions about staff changes and whatnot I wrote in a ticket today regarding my Rackspace experience and how I intend to take my business elsewhere if things do not change or I do not receive a much better price. I spend thousands with Rackspace every single month to host my sites and domains and the service is … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 09/25/2017 – 10/01/2017
NEW YORK, NY – Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as buda.com at $25,000 EUR ($29,376.75 US Dollar), the top ccTLD as ega.de at 11,900 EUR ($13,985.47 US Dollar) and the top other as nfc.net at $10,000.00 USD. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 09/25/2017 – 10/01/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 09/18/2017 – 09/24/2017
NEW YORK, NY – Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as Medically.com at $53,000.00 USD, the top ccTLD as Experience.tv at 35,000 USD and the top other as StaySafe.org at $5,000.00 USD. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 09/18/2017 – 09/24/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
List of 300+ Cryptocurrency Domain Name Sales and Sale Prices [All Time] (NameBio)
NEW YORK, NY - The other evening I made a list of domain name sales which contained the exact match word of "Bitcoin" in the domains, but that list left lots of domains off the table since there is so many different types of Cryptocurrencies. This list, still not all inclusive, includes more different types of cryptocurrencies and keywords such as Coin, Litecoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Ripple, Crypto and many other terms. I built the list with several rounds of … [Read more...]
Top 100 Domain Names with Exact Word “Bitcoin” in URL Sold (All Time) [NameBio]
NEW YORK, NY - Bitcoin is an innovative and new worldwide cryptocurrency and digital payment system. As of the time of this writing, according to Google, 1 Bitcoin equals $3,640.00 US dollars. The following list of domain names are recorded at NameBio as having been sold over the last six years which contain the exact full word "Bitcoin" but does not include other popular names in the same space which would include "Crypto" or related "Coin" domain names. According to … [Read more...]
Update: Top 100 .Net Domain Sales So Far This Year (01/02/2017 – 09/09/2017)
NEW YORK, NY - Earlier this year I gathered a list of top sales from NameBio for the .net extension. This list requires an update as Uniregistry released sales numbers which contain some very impressive sales for short.net domains (NameBio added the entire list to its database yesterday). Listed below is an updated record of .net domain names which have been reported publicly and have closed this year reflecting $1,068,769.00 in sales. I've been watching single word .net … [Read more...]
Twitter Verification Requests Get Processed by High Tech Associates in Philippines
NEW YORK, NY – Recently I submitted a request to verify my Twitter account through the online form Twitter makes available for those who want to request verification. Verification isn’t available to all users but those who are either public figures, journalists, celebrities and some media outlets will often be the types of accounts Twitter will verify, depending on the circumstances. Verified users have that cool little blue badge next to their names so Twitter users … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 09/11/2017 – 09/17/2017
NEW YORK, NY – Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as WomenInc.com at $25,000.00 USD, the top ccTLD as iliad.it at 11,000 EUR ($13,192.85 US) and the top other as livelife.net at $2,868.00 USD. Here is the entire list from Sedo sales from 09/11/2017 – 09/17/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
‘Toys R Us’ Should Shut Retail Operation, Rebrand as “Toys.com” Before Too Late
NEW YORK, NY – Year after year Toy giant and massive retailer “Toys R Us” finds itself in a difficult situation fast becoming worse. According to Bloomberg, the company is about to file Bankruptcy and it could come as soon as today. Toys R Us has been trying to keep up with online retailers such as Amazon and discount stores such as Wal-Mart whom have already out-maneuvered them by far building large bustling online operations, something Toys R Us has been struggling to … [Read more...]
Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) for “CEOs” – ln Layman’s Terms
NEW YORK, NY - About twelve years ago when “search engine optimization” was beginning to get popular, a competing news publisher invited me to lunch at his restaurant to brainstorm about collaborating. It never materialized, but while there and after getting to know each other for a little while, he then turned to me, changed his posture in his chair a bit, sort of gathered his thoughts, and asked me straight out, “sell me on search engine optimization”, “what is it” and “how … [Read more...]
Last Day for ICA Members to Book MERGE Conference at Tremendous Discount
NEW YORK, NY – It looks like my Internet Commerce Association (ICA) membership (individual level) just paid for itself for the entire year. Yep, that’s how good the discount is for ICA members who want to attend the “MERGE” conference next month. MERGE will take place in Orlando from Saturday Oct 14, 2017 to Wednesday Oct 18, 2017 at Marriott's Orlando World Center, 8701 World Center Drive, Orlando, Florida. If you are a member reach out to your contact at ICA for how … [Read more...]
Verisign Releases 2017 Second Quarter Industry Brief on Domain Name Market
NEW YORK, NY – In an endless sea of opinions (I admit, including my own) it is great to look at meaningful data when it comes to where our industry is going as far as growth, innovation and trends. If you would like to read-over the Verisign’s 2017 Second Quarter Industry report, it is online here (PDF). Some key takeaways: .com registrations are up to 129.2 million. .net and .org are still major players, but in number of registrations, far behind ccTLDs such as … [Read more...]
List of 424 New gTLD Domain Names Which Changed Hands This Year (NameBio)
NEW YORK, NY - I hate to sound like I am complaining, because no-one asked me to look into this, but I am pretty confident I just inspected the longest list of broken, junk, parked, meaningless web sites I've seen in a single sitting. Long, grueling, and very unrewarding we'll call it - as I've learned not much more than I already suspected before, which is that most of these new gTLD domains seem like hypothetical, wishful-thinking lotto tickets that will likely be bets (or … [Read more...]