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Google’s Search Market Share Dips Below 90% for First Time in Decade

January 15, 2025 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google's global search engine market share fell below 90% in the final quarter of 2024, marking the first time since 2015 that it has dipped under this threshold. Regional Variations: Competitor Gains: During this period, competitors such as Microsoft Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo experienced slight increases in their market shares. Notably, Microsoft Bing maintained a share of around 3.97% in December 2024. Source: StatCounter Global Stats - … [Read more...]

Domain Names as Digital Real Estate: The Parallels of Scarcity and Value

September 25, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Domain Names as Digital Real Estate

PALM BEACH, FL - In the modern business landscape, owning a premium domain name can be as valuable as holding a prime piece of physical real estate. Just as with prime properties in desirable locations, premium domain names—short, memorable, and industry-specific web addresses—are in limited supply, which drives up their value over time. These digital assets, much like their physical counterparts, are scarce commodities, and their importance has only increased in an era where … [Read more...]

Domain Registrar, Site Builder Squarespace Purchased by Permira for $6.9 Billion

May 16, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Squarespace

NEW YORK, NY - Private-equity firm Permira has entered into a deal with Squarespace to acquire the website-building platform and domain host/registrar in an all-cash deal valued at $6.9 billion, according to an announcement made this week by both companies. The deal involves Permira paying approximately a 30 percent premium to Squarespace’s unaffected share price, which comes to $44 a share in cash; as a part of the transaction, the publicly-traded web company – … [Read more...]

Stupid Question: “Why Not Just Stick With .io?” 10 Years Later, Answer Remains Clear

March 31, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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SOUTH FLORIDA - A startup I never heard of caught my attention when it appeared on DomainInvesting.com for its strategic and necessary (in my opinion) acquisition by ownership of their “.com” domain name, YouForm.com, a business that had been using the popular - while not as good, io domain, YouForm.io. Youform is a free form builder that provides unlimited forms and responses. It is an alternative to Typeform and Formidable. Youform’s features include a drag-and-drop … [Read more...]

.AI Domain Sales Exceed $5 Million in 2023, On-Track to Hit $10 Million in 2024

January 4, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Artificial Intelligence

WEST PALM, FL - .AI is the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. For years the small island country has been reaping a profit from the rising popularity among companies and projects related to the artificial intelligence industry who have been wanting to register .AI domains for their projects and business ventures. This phenomenon began to hit a fever pitch in 2013, to the point that Anguilla actually … [Read more...]

Uh Oh: 400,000 Less gTLD Registrations First Quarter of 2018, Vs Previous Quarter

June 14, 2018 By John Colascione 1 Comment

NEW YORK – New gTLD proponents will be less than excited to learn that according to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief, new gTLD domain registrations, despite there being more awareness :) and more names available for registration, such extensions experienced a decline of 400,000 registrations or loss of 2% within the first Quarter of 2018 (Q1) when compared to the last Quarter of 2017 (Q4). Verisign creates these industry briefs to include quarter-over-quarter … [Read more...]

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quote icon The domain name is equivalent to Gold. It is the only packaged item which is globally tax-free, portable, with value that is universal across different cultures. quote icon – Frank Schilling

quote icon Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity ever known to man. quote icon – Rick Schwartz

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Earlier today, I found myself browsing the MediaOptions website after being referred there by a YouTube video that mentioned the company and spotlighted one of their domain … [Read More...]

Google’s Search Market Share Dips Below 90% for First Time in Decade

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google's global search engine market share fell below 90% in the final quarter of 2024, marking the first time since 2015 that it has dipped under this threshold. Regional … [Read More...]

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL - A massive trove of approximately 16 billion username-password combinations—along with session tokens and cookies - has surfaced on unsecured servers, cybersecurity researchers … [Read More...]

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