Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]
Guy Who Owns The Domain TrumpTv.com Wants $3 Million For It
TheWrap.com has an exclusive interview with the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com; Hollywood entrepreneur Fernando Escovar. Mr. Escovar told TheWrap that he bought the domain name back in 2004, and "totally forgot I owned it; Then, all of a sudden, traffic began to go crazy and I realized what was going on." "We’ve seen our traffic go from about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the … [Read more...]
Top 20 New gTLD Registrants Own Over 10% of All New gTLD’s
The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own over 10% of all registered new gTLD's. According to ntldstats.com, there are 24,890,063 new gTLD registered. The top 10 registrants of new gTLD domains own 1,860,529 or about 7.5% of all new gTLD domains. The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own another 679,874 new gTLD domains, meaning that the top 20 new gTLD registrants … [Read more...]
The Domain Name Texas.com Hits The Market
The 22 years old domain name Texas.com is for sale. The domain is being brokered by eNaming. Tracy Fogarty, eNaming founder and CEO is quoted in a press release out today as saying.com: “With only one generic name dot-com available per state, this domain name is as exclusive as they come. Texas is the second-largest state, and there are many businesses there that could benefit … [Read more...]
.Blog Gets Almost 950 Domain Registrations In The Sunrise Period
The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three letters domain names were registered in Sunrise. Many generic domain names were also grabbed in Sunrise including Art.blog; Billions.blog; … [Read more...]
3 Years Later: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz On New gTLD’s; Who Was Right?
It was three years ago to the date that marked the epic debate between the "Domain King" Rick Schwartz and arguably the most successful domainer in history , Frank Schilling on the New gTLD's. The debate went on for almost 80 Minutes at a session held at the old TRAFFIC conference held back in October 2013 on basically "will the new gTLD's be a game changer". So the question now becomes in … [Read more...]
August/September .CLUB Premium Domain Sales Top $135k
The .Club registry just announced that is sold over $135,000 domain names in August/September 2016 .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 through the registrar channel . 84 other domain names were sold for a total of $103,245.47, including the Sedo auction. "In both August and September, premium names were sold by 14 different registrars. One name was sold directly by the Registry in … [Read more...]