So back in 2016 there was a best registrar poll on Namepros where GoDaddy won going away. They had over 50% of the vote. So last month I posted the 2017 poll and GoDaddy trailed early but came on at the close for the win. The early leader was NameSilo who seems to be an upcoming favorite with many domain owners. A few registrars really need to take a look at themselves and wonder how they … [Read more...]
Big week coming up for emoji domains
Alvin Brown posted an interesting article this morning on emoji domains. There are over 1200 emoji domains coming to GoDaddy auctions over the next week. From the article: Most days, the expired emoji domain search returns a handful of domains or, in most cases, no domains at all. Well, that tide changed this week when 1,220 emoji domain auctions soon to expired appeared. Nearly 50% of … [Read more...]
ccTLDs make up around 40.7% of the global TLD market
Centr.org released their DomainWire Global TLD Report Q3/2017 Highlights include: Global market Global domains under all TLDs have contracted slightly due to declines in several larger new gTLDs. Without these outliers, global growth was 2.5% YOY and combined domains globally are an estimated 311 million. ccTLDs make up around 40.7% of the global TLD market, with the remaining … [Read more...]
Verisign’s top trending keywords for October are crypto and marijuana based
Verisign released the top trending keywords for October. October was big on crypto and marijuana. Cannabis topped the .com charts and blockchain topped .net. Blockchain was also represented in .com along with block by … [Read more...]
What kind of domains are you buying and what are you avoiding?
We have seen many trends come and go, and other niches are evergreen like 3L.com. I was having a couple chats about brandable names and the trend was the people were displeased with a lack of sales/offers for made up words. That frustration took me back to a post I read from Brandworthy on Namepros. He has been one of the more successful sellers on BrandBucket. He had mentioned about a month … [Read more...]
new gTLDs made up 16 percent of the 2016 cases at WIPO
Ip-Watch.org published an article on the WIPO annual report. In that article William New broke down some statistics related to domain disputes. 2016 showed an increase of 10% in domain cases. From the article: In 2016, the total number of WIPO cybersquatting cases rose 10 percent, with a record 3,036 cases brought by trademark owners, involving 109 countries. The top three sectors for … [Read more...]
The future of all premium domain transactions?
There was an interesting conversation that took place on Twitter with Mike, Elliot Silver and Andrew Rosener. The topic dealt with financing purchases and also getting equity from certain deals. Andrew Rosener commented that he felt that this was the future of premium domain transactions. The conversation started with Elliot's tweet: A domain name may have a "perfect buyer," but that … [Read more...]