As reported on ElliotsBlog.com, .XXX Sunrise period which originally was to end today, has been extended until Monday, October 31st, 4pm EST. Also reported is they have received over 70,000 pre-registration requests. At roughly $200 each that is $14 million, WOW! For those of you that don’t know if the Sunrise period is for you, watch this [...]
The news of .XXX sponsoring a powerboat broke late last week, so I am a little late to posting. Although late, I think it’s great news. Any chance of getting the word out about domain names is awesome and this is certainly a BIG way to do it! This is now the second boat that [...]
Verisign Publishes New Domain Industry Brief for Q2/1010
Verisign, the company that is now more focused on the domain name space than ever before, since selling their security unit to Symmantec, has published their September issue of the the quarterly Domain Industry Brief (PDF).
- The second quarter of 2010 closed with a base of more than 196.3 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of more than 3 million domain names, or 2 percent over the first quarter. Registrations grew by 12.3 million, or 7 percent over the past year.
- The combined base of .com and .net domain names surpassed 100 million, finishing the quarter with an adjusted zone size of 101.5 million
- New .com and .net registrations totalled 7.9 million during the second quarter, an increase of 13 percent from a year ago, and continued to show signs of the larger economic recovery.
- Consistent with recent trends, .cn (China) experienced a second-quarter decline in base registrations, dropping the domain from fourth to sixth largest among all TLDs.
- This changed the respective positions of .uk and .org, which became the fourth and fifth largest TLDs, respectively.
- VeriSign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load during the quarter was 62.5 billion, with a peak of 83.6 billion. The daily average increased 16 percent and the peak increased 32 percent over the previous quarter. Compared to the same timeframe in 2009, the daily average grew 28 percent and the peak grew 43 percent.
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The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog – MorganLinton.com.
How to learn more about any [...]
The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog – MorganLinton.com.
With the .CO launch getting closer [...]
The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog – MorganLinton.com.
Many people see the ccTLD market [...]
The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog – MorganLinton.com.
Let’s face it – IDNs will [...]
The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog – MorganLinton.com.
ccTLDs offer incredible opportunities for domain [...]
Press Release
Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that it has teamed with VeriSign, the global registry operator for the .tv internet domain, to hold an exclusive auction for the entire available catalog of 115 premium .tv domain names at the standard registry renewal fee, which is a greatly reduced renewal [...]
In the midst of many debates on how successful any extension can be other than a .com, Football.tv was launched. However, it is not referring to football as we know it in the U.S., it’s referring to soccer. It is commonly known that soccer is a crucial part of culture for some countries and Football.tv [...]