After the Market closed today Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) reported earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011. Revenue was up 19%. YummyNames.com sold another $1.65 million in domain names in the 4th Q and Tucows ended the 4th Q with 11.8 domain names under management, up 16% from a year earlier. Here is the full report All figures are in U.S. dollars. You can also read … [Read more...]
USA Today: Super Bowl Commercials: Dogs Win!!!
According to the USA Today Ad Meter, the race for the Super Bowl Ad race was won by the Dogs. The top three rated ads all featured dogs. The Doritos commercial where the big Dog bribes the cat owner was the top rated rate. The Volkswagen ad where the overweight Dog gets fit took second and the Sketchers ad where the Boston Terrier in Dog in sneakers wins the greyhound race finished … [Read more...]
Godaddy Set Sales Record For Super Bowl Sunday
According to a press release this morning, "Go Daddy also broke its own records for sales on a Super Bowl Sunday" It also claimed its commercial featuring a QR code produced the "best mobile website traffic ... ever." Godaddy also says that .Co "enjoyed a significant surge in .CO domain name registrations over the weekend and throughout the live broadcast". Godaddy admits in the PR that … [Read more...]
Tucows: Why We Don’t Like SOPA & Joins Reddit Blackout On January 18th
Tucows.com just published a post its site entitled "Why We Don't Like SOPA and promises to follow Reddit lead and blackout its site on January 18th The story is written by Elliot Noss the CEO of Tucows.com Tucows.com is the 3rd largest registrar in the world with almost 9 Million domains under management according to registrarStats.com We congratulate Tucows for taking a strong stance on … [Read more...]
2 Weeks Of SOPA: The Actual Godaddy Numbers: 100K Domains Transferred Out, 117K Domains Transferred In
When the story first broke about the Godaddy boycott or "move your domain away" movement to protest Godaddy's support of SOPA, it was two weeks ago on December 22nd. A few days later, we released numbers based off of DailyChanges.com which we acknowledged were only a best guess based on changes made to Godaddy's default servers of DomainControl.com and promised as soon as we had actual numbers … [Read more...]
Moniker.com Falls To Number 11, As FastDomain.com Passes Them
According to RegistrarStats.com, Moniker.com just fell to the 11th largest domain name registrar being passed by FastDomain.com During 2011 FastDomain.com picked up around 800,000 registrations while Moniker which was the 7th largest registrar at the beginning of 2011. During 2011 Moniker.com lost about 8o0,000 domains under management and sits right over 2 Million domain names. I don't … [Read more...]
BigRock Tells Its Customers Verisign’s Price Increase Is A LOT Higher Than It Is
BigRock.com is an ICANN Accredited registrar, that is one of the major tags used by SnapNames.com to catch domain names on the drop. I just received an email from them today about the Verisign's price increase which goes into effect January 15th. ""Dear Customer, As your account manager, I would like to inform you of an imminent change in Verisign Registry pricing." "From early January … [Read more...]