Joseph Green did some investigative work and posted his findings about GhettoJustice.com, the first domain registered at upstart Go Daddy. Joseph posted, I was watching How a Former Marine Built GoDaddy Into a Billion-Dollar Business and Bob Parsons shared an interesting fact about GoDaddy at the 38:55 mark. It seems that the registrant liked Go Daddy so much that he actually went on to … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Announces Over $1.2 Million in Sales in May
Namejet.com reported $1,274,656.00 in domain name sales in May 2016. Only sales of $2,000 or more are reported and only domains sold and paid for in May are included. All sales were led by 281.com which sold for $201,100 The next 5 highest sales were all three-letter .com's Here is the list Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]
Over 400,000 .XYZ Domain Names Already Registered Today
I just chatted with the .XYZ registry who told me that over 400,000 .XYZ domain names have been registered today on June 1st as of 1pm EST. Yesterday Uniregistry announced $.01 .XYZ domain registrations, but today many other domain registrars joined in and are offering $.02 .XYZ domain registrations. Of course the day is not over and almost 40,000 registrations were added in just the last … [Read more...]
Uniregistry $.01 .XYZ Promotion Gets 12K Registrations in 1st Few Hours
It looks like around 12,000 .XYZ domain names were registered in the first few hours into the $.01 .XYZ domain promotion. According to ntldstats.com, Uniregistry had 41,299 .XYZ registrations as of yesterday's z0ne report before the announcement which was made around 5PM EST. According to the last zone update there were 53,381 .XYZ domain name registered at Uniregistry. So basically the … [Read more...]
Cash.us closes at $20,100 amid a ton of .us expiring auctions
It was .US day on Go Daddy and there were some interesting closing prices. More than likely all these domains get renewed but it was still an interesting exercise to look at which names closed highest. Here are the names I tracked that closed four figures and higher: Cash.us closed at $20,100 130 bids Wallet.us closed at $18,250 142 bids Gaming.us closed at $15,000 123 … [Read more...]
1st Day .Game Totals: 991 Domains; 337 Premiums @ $1,300 Wholesale
.Game launched into general availability (GA) on Wednesday and received 991 domain name registrations in the 1st 24 hours of registration The wholesale price set by the .game registry, Uniregistry, is $300 for a non-premium domain names for a registration and for each renewal. Premium .Game domain names, were all priced at $1,300 wholesale. Premium domain names will renew annually at the … [Read more...]
Schilling’s North Sound Names Is No Longer The Top Registrant of New gTLD’s
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names has been the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names for about as long as ntldstats has been tracking registrants. However North Sound Names has been knocked off from the top spot by West263 company out of China According to ntldstats, North Sound Names owns has just over 230,000 new gTLD domain names. "West263 Company" is the registrant of 253,459 … [Read more...]