Today Domainingtips.com posted a blog about the "The State of Domaining Blogs in 2017 " and concluded with a "there is no good answer" However we predicted this would happen in 2011: "Blogging is a tough deal. Since I started blogging, Frank Schilling stopped, Sahar stopped and most recently Rick Schwartz announced he was basically calling it a day. NewFoundNames.com also stopped … [Read more...]
MSNBC Hand Registers The Domain Name Greta.TV, As Greta Van Susteren 1st Show It Set For Monday
The domain name Greta.tv was hand registered by NBCUniversal Media, LLC the parent company of MSNBC. Last week MSNBC announced that Greta Van Susteren, the former Fox News host would being a nightly show starting on Monday January 9th. The previous owner of the domain name a Andrea Santamaria of Great Britain registered the domain name in May 2015 after the former owner allowed it to drop … [Read more...]
Curt Schilling Files UDRP on Matching Domain CurtSchilling.com
Boston pitching legend Curt Schilling has filed a UDRP on his Matching .Com domain name CurtSchilling.com Mr. Schilling has also spoken about political ambitions running for Senator against Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts' 2018 Senate race. It appears the domain names has been owned by third parties since at least 2002. The domain name CurtSchilling.com currently forwards to … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Reports Over $500K in Sales In December 2016
Namejet.com had over $500K in reportable sales in December 2016 For a domain name to make the list the domain had to sell for $2,000 or more in December and be paid for by the end of the month. 5 of the 6 top sales went to 3 character domain names. In all about 120 domain name sales were reported Here are the sales: Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]
The Domain King Is Now The King Of Deplorables
Rick Schwartz, who is know as and has a US trademark on the term "Domain King" is now certainly the King of "Deplorables" In the 2016 President election the term "Deplorables" gained amazing traction after Hillary Clinton said that the half of Donald Trump's supports were in the "Basket of Deplorables". Trump supporters went on to wear the "Deplorables" tag as a badge of honor. The Domain … [Read more...]
Poll Results: Less Than 20% Correctly Guessed How Many .Com Registrations There Would Be On 1/1/17
A year ago on January 1, 2016 we started a poll asking the question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? On January 1, 2006 according to Verisign there were 123,963,640 .Com domain names in the Domain Base. As of today January 1, 2017 there are 126,930,421 .Com domain names. As for the poll we gave you these choices and out of the 286 votes cast this was the … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Loses Another 1 Million Domains In Less Than 2 Weeks; Now Under 127 Million
It was just on December 16th that we reported that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign had dropped below 128 Million. As of today the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign who operates the .Com registry has dropped by another million domains to under 127 Million. In late 2015 the Chinese domain market was on … [Read more...]