2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much. Tucows was the star for 2016 up 67% on the year. Neustar got acquired and the stock finished up close to 40%. Verisign saw their fortunes take a down turn in 2016, all the speculative hand regs based on Chinese whims did not materialize in 2016 … [Read more...]
Epik Starts To Accept Bitcoin For Payment & Disbursement
Epik.com, a full-service, all-inclusive domain name and operator of a commission-free marketplace announced effective immediately, customers may pay for domain registrations, marketplace purchases, escrow, SSL certificates, web development, hosting and other services using Bitcoin, in addition to credit card, Paypal, Masterbucks and bank transfer. Customers may also disburse proceeds to … [Read more...]
Losing 2,000 Bitcoins and the potential of $1.8 million
As the J Geils Band said "Love Stinks" and sometimes it can cost you the potential for a lot of money. There was a post recently on Steemit by user "Store" in which he details how he lost 2,000 Bitcoins and the potential for $1.8 million at the peak of Bitcoin's run. I know who Store is in the domaining community, and if he wants to leave a comment here that's great, but I will not reveal his … [Read more...]
Ether Drops 50% this week
On March 28 we wrote about Ethereum and it's rise over 1,000 %. The cryptocurrency took a hit this week and plunged over 50%. CoinDesk reported: Ether's descent While bitcoin has seen range-bound prices, ether plunged more than 56% during the week ending 15th April at 12:00 UTC, according to Poloniex figures. George Samman, blockchain advisor and consultant, described the development as … [Read more...]
Ethereum up over 1,000% – can it dethrone Bitcoin ?
The new York Times published an article today on Ethereum giving the upstart rival to Bitcoin some mainstream publicity. Ethereum was created by a 21-year-old Russian-Canadian, Vitalik Buterin. From the article: Joseph Bonneau, a computer science researcher at Stanford who studies so-called crypto-currencies, said Ethereum was the first system that had really caught his interest since … [Read more...]
Are Domains The New Bitcoin?
One of those in the domain industry whose opinion I greatly respect, Alan Dunn, has made a lot of inroads in equating the value of domain names to commodities at least when it come to those "Chinese Domains"; ultra short domains with single, double and triple characters . According to many in the domain space, "Chinese Domains" equate their value to a commodities like Gold, Platinum, Silver, … [Read more...]
33 Indicators that Bitcoin is not slowing down
BargainFox.co.uk produced this infographic that looks at 33 indicators relating to Bitcoin and why things are not slowing down with the cryptocurrency. 55% of Bitcoin users are 19-34 years of age based on a survey of 4,000 respondents. 90% Male … [Read more...]