WeAreSocial and Hootsuite put together a pretty comprehensive report on the global digital landscape. The report gives a concise look at each region around the world along with a region by region breakdown. The report is worth taking a look at and bookmarking for those that do a lot of outbound and research the areas they target. This should prove especially helpful for those that sell cctld's … [Read more...]
Trending keywords in January include Keto,Crew and Property
Verisign released their trending keywords for January and Keto,Crew and property topped the list. Keto has become popular due to the Ketogenic diet. … [Read more...]
The 50 best jobs for 2019
Glassdoor published their 50 best jobs for 2019 and while domainer did not make the list, the list can be useful to review to see what jobs are trending upwards. The list includes the median base salary and current number of positions open. Many domain investors own job and occupational type domains, the list can be used to see what names you own that are in the top 50 and you might want to … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB for Q3: Internet Grows to 342.4 Million Domain Name Registrations
Verisign released their DNIB report for the third quarter of 2018. Q3 2018 closed with approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2018. .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 151.7 million domain … [Read more...]
ICYMI: The top posts of October on TheDomains
In October a lot of the focus was on registrars, and on all the definitions when it comes to brandables. The top 5 posts by views for October: Gab.com lands at Uniregistry Would you like to own a domain forever? It would have been better to lose this UDRP How do you define brandable? Uniregistry Perks have some scratching their heads Thank you for reading and … [Read more...]
VeriSign’s potential long term goal
Mike and I were discussing the VeriSign blog post today and the subsequent outrage in the domain investor community. Mike might be onto something though, these were his takes about the post, the disparaging language of calling some of your biggest customers "scalpers." and the long game for Verisign. The long game for VeriSign is about removing price caps, while these increases are nice, … [Read more...]
An interesting way to get people interested in domaining
Sometimes there are no words for a domain investor related video. You just let the cheesy waft over you. So sit back and watch a couple videos and relax. "I would say these videos are not appropriate if you have your children around, nothing terrible, but some language you might not want your kids hearing." Jamie Lewis is an Internet marketer and is the guy behind domainerelite.com. His video … [Read more...]