A year ago on January 1, 2016 we started a poll asking the question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? On January 1, 2006 according to Verisign there were 123,963,640 .Com domain names in the Domain Base. As of today January 1, 2017 there are 126,930,421 .Com domain names. As for the poll we gave you these choices and out of the 286 votes cast this was the … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Loses Another 1 Million Domains In Less Than 2 Weeks; Now Under 127 Million
It was just on December 16th that we reported that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign had dropped below 128 Million. As of today the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign who operates the .Com registry has dropped by another million domains to under 127 Million. In late 2015 the Chinese domain market was on … [Read more...]
.Com Domain Registrations Back Under 128 Million
Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base have fallen below 128 Million. Back in September of this year we reported the number of .com domain name had broken through the 128 million mark for the first time. For the record, Verisign defines the Domain Name Base "is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured … [Read more...]
3,500 Trump .Com & .Net Domains Registered in Last 48 Hours
According to Verisign, the registry for the .Com and .Net domain names, since election day November 8th almost 3,200 .Com and 330 .net domains containing the word Trump have been registered. A lot of domains already are calling for Trump's impeachment, some are boring on criminal as threatening the President elect with violence; some are already indicating the next grounds for protest; some … [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...]
Wired.com: .Com Is The Choice of VC Backed Startups
Wired.com just published a post entitled "Why .Com is the Venture Capital Community’s Power Player" highlighting the use of .Com by VC backed startups. "In a recent essay, Paul Graham, venture capitalist and co-founder of the Y Combinator seed capital firm said, “The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness.” It’s no wonder that 100 percent of the top 20 Y … [Read more...]
The Number of .Com Domains Pass 128 Million For 1st Time According To Verisign
The number of registered .com domain names have passed 128 Million for the 1st time according to Verisign the registry for .com. According to Verisign the number of .com domain names in the Domain Name Base as of today is 128,015,138 The Domain Name Base as defined by Verisign "is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the … [Read more...]