The rare two letter domain name Cm.com appears to have dropped back 2013. The last record for the domain according to DomainTools.com is from May 2013: Record Date: 2013-05-01 Registrar: DOMAIN.COM, LLC Server: whois.domain.com Created: 1997-05-20 Updated: 2013-04-28 Expires: 2020-05-21 Can't get information on local domain CM.COM"" According to Screenshots.com the domain was in … [Read more...]
LinkedIn acquires Bright.com
LinkedIn made their largest acquistion yet acquiring Bright.com. Tech Crunch covered the acquisition which coincided with LinkedIn reporting earnings on Thursday. From the article: Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The … [Read more...]
On The Day New gTLD Picked Up 19,163 New Registrations, .Com Picked Up 37,782
Plenty of new and buzz was created yesterday when new gTLD's generated 19,163 new domain registrations led by .Guru However in all fairness we need to point out that the total number of new gTLD registrations on the 1st day of general availability was still just about 1/2 of the number of net new .Com registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com while the total number of new gTLD … [Read more...]
Coupons.com files for $100million IPO
Last week it was Care.com going public and soaring in its first day of trading and now another category killer .com, Coupons.com has filed to go public. When looking at both of these companies ".COM" is a part of the name, they are not Care Inc or Coupons Inc and use the .com extension. With all the talk lately of new gtlds and branding themselves it is important to note that .com started this … [Read more...]
Verisign: Rise In Value Of Bitcoin Causes Surge In .Com/.Net Domain Registrations: 22K In 2013
Verisign just published a blog on how the rising value of Bitcoin has led to surge of .com and .net domain name registrations. The value of a Bitcoin surged from roughly $13 at the beginning of 2013 to an eventual high of $1,137 at the end of November (The chart below, courtesy of Coinbase, documents the ebbs and flows of a Bitcoin’s value). By doing … [Read more...]
Verisign: .Com Registrations Blow Past 112 Million Mark For The 1st Time
Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the active zone file exceeded the 112,000,000 Mark for the first time. The number of .com domain name registrations in the active zone crossed the 112 Million number today January 16th, 2014 The number of .net domain names in the active zone file is down slightly but still well over the 15 million domain name mark. … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 125.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains Registered Up 5% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2013 reporting revenue of $244 million up 9% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported net income of $81 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.53 for the third quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $78 million and diluted EPS of $0.47 in the same quarter in 2012. The … [Read more...]