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...]
Forget Naming Companies – One Teen Is Getting Paid to Name Babies
There was a really cool story on BBC.co.uk that was sent to me by Adam Yamada from Yamada Media. Domain investors and branding firms spend most of their time selling names or creating names for business, but there is a 16 year old Brit that is making money naming babies. Beau Jessup is a 16 year old from Gloucestershire who created a website called Special Name, the service helps give … [Read more...]
Conference Attendees Will Be Able to Ask that Man “Why are you dropping 70,000 .cc domains ?”
One of the hot stories last week was that a Chinese investor known as "Booksir" was dropping 70,000 .cc domains that he paid 120 CNY per .cc for. This works out to approximately $1.25 in domain spend. He announced this on WeChat. Booksir's real name is Liangji Zhuang and he has a lot more on his plate. According to the recent DN.com newsletter, "Booksir has been one of the first domain veterans … [Read more...]
Ename is now a public company in China
According to a newsletter from DN.com the popular Chinese registrar/marketplace Ename has gone public. According to the statistic in the Information Disclosure, eName was established on 19th May, 2005. It had a revenue of ￥260 million CNY and net profit of ￥27.9 million CNY in the year 2015, and a revenue of ￥167.5 million CNY and net profit of ￥11.9 million CNY in the year 2014. Here is a … [Read more...]
VS.com Changes Hands For Something Other Than Money
Back in 2015 we wrote a post about VS.com being sold. The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy. However the servers did not change and the domain was registered at Godaddy while it was owned by VS Media, Inc. VS.com as recently as 2006 was an … [Read more...]
Guest Post: .WS Goes To China
This is a guest post by Alan Ezeir who is the Founder & President of Global Domains International, Inc which owns and operates the .WS registry which is the ccTLD of Samoa. I found it an interesting read not just for .WS domains but for all short domains in China. The following was written by Mr. Ezeir and was published unedited: ""I recently went to China with no expectations, just … [Read more...]
791.com Sells for 1.62 million CNY
There have been some decent numeric sales over the last few days in China. 791.com sold for $246,400. The sale was reported on Ename.cn. English translation from Kassey Lee of Coreile.com: 791.com sold for 1.62m CNY in recent auction. 9 is a lucky number and 791 is the dialing code of 南昌 (Nanchang). Similar domain names already developed into websites are PT791.com and … [Read more...]