Could the SEO value of cctld's being going away? SearchEngineJournal.com published an article this morning that talks about just that. In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, the company’s Search Relations team hinted at potential changes in how country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are valued for SEO. Creative Use Of ccTLDs For Branding According to Illyes, the … [Read more...]
.Si = SuperIntelligence? Some are hoping to make it the next trend
It looks like over the weekend Namepros member Lox got a few excited about the next country code that could get repurposed. I am talking about the country code of Slovenia, .si. Lox pointed out that Microsoft looks to have acquired Copilot.si. The domain name has been registered since 2016. Microsoft also registered CopilotSi.com this year. Archive.org just showed a Wix landing page that the … [Read more...]
The Top 10 ccTLDs Powering the European Domain Market
Simone Catania from InterNetX published an article on DotMagazine.online about country code domain names. The focus of the article was the European market. Simone writes, Undeterred by the numerous alternate naming options, Europe relies strongly on ccTLDs with roughly 54.2% median market. The popularity of ccTLDs within this region is linked to many factors, chief among which is the … [Read more...]
Single-character .ee domain names now available
The Estonian Internet Foundation is releasing single character domain names for the first time. The released the following information: The Estonian Internet Foundation manages the .ee TLD and represents the Estonian Internet community. Reserved toponymic and single-character domains will be up for auction from 12 September, until next summer. The Estonian Internet Foundation is making … [Read more...]
2020 Reported Country code sales up over 20% compared to 2019
Reported Country code sales in 2020 were up over 20% in 2020 compared to 2019. There were 7,648 Total Sales vs 6,249 in 2019. $12.8m in dollar volume vs $10.5m in 2019. Average selling price per domain name was almost unchanged, $1,677 vs $1,681. There were six 6 figure sales in 2020 vs three in 2019. Sedo remains the leader in country code sales. They accounted for $6.9m of the $12.8m in … [Read more...]
Niue wants .nu redelegated
Niue wants it's country code back! This is not something new as I have written before about how countries view their country code as a natural resource and want to control their own digital identity. Back in February Wired wrote a piece on several small countries and their fight to be in control of their cctld. Ending what they deem a digital colonization. The Chagossians want .io back as I … [Read more...]
Reported cctld sales in 2020 higher in 10 months than 2019 and 2018 full year
October is winding down and there are two full months left in 2020. When we look at reported country code domain name sales, they have already surpassed 2019 and 2018 full year sales. 2020 sales are 6,344 sales for $10.5 million vs 2019 full year sales of 6,249 sales for $10.5 million. The country codes fueling the sales are the usual suspects. .Co.uk, .de, .co, .io and .ai. .Co.uk has … [Read more...]