The .Club registry just announced that is sold over $135,000 domain names in August/September 2016 .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 through the registrar channel . 84 other domain names were sold for a total of $103,245.47, including the Sedo auction. "In both August and September, premium names were sold by 14 different registrars. One name was sold directly by the Registry in … [Read more...]
Godaddy/ NameFind Sells Over 45 Three Character .Com’s
Godaddy/ Namefind.com continues to move a lot of inventory out of its three portfolio purchases. Yesterday we tracked over 45 three character .Com domain … [Read more...]
Tech Crunch Publishes a Great Story On The Domain Industry
TechCrunch.com published a great story about the money floating around in the domain industry entitled ""The silent evolution of domain names"". People in the domain space are mentioned include Rob Grant as the father of Lana Del Rey, Kevin Ham, and Thunayan K. AL-Ghanim. The story covers Godaddy's purchase of our portfolio saying they spend over $100 million in domains. The story quotes … [Read more...]
Actress Anna Faris Acquires The Domain Name Unqualified.com
Actress Anna Faris has acquired the domain name Unqualified.com. The domain name matches the name of her Podcast, which is called "Anna Faris is Unqualified" which started in November 2015. According to the website; " the podcast gives "not-so-great relationship advice from completely unqualified Hollywood types". Ms. Faris uses the Twitter handle @unqualified The domain name was … [Read more...]
Godaddy Sells A Bunch of Three Letter .Com/.Net Domains
Godaddy has sold a bunch of three letter domain names including two .com's most to XiaoFeng Lin of China in the past two days. The other buyers appear to be from China as well: qcc.com fcd.com 521.net 5437.com bcf.net bmn.net bpx.net bqg.net cxh.net dyj.net fjs.net fzf.net fzh.net gky.net jzq.net klr.net ksp.net kyp.net … [Read more...]
That’s a lot of eights
So it looks like we either have two bidders that desperately want a name, or they are playing games. The 16 year old domain name 88888888.net closes today on Go Daddy Auctions. The bid is at $4,001. You will see that bidder 10 has been popping the bid by $500 at a time. Bid Date Bid Expires Bidder Bid Amount 2016/08/08 02:45 AM (PDT) 2016/08/08 10:24 AM … [Read more...]
GoDaddy misses on earnings but exceeds revenue expectations
GoDaddy posted earnings after the close today, the second quarter results showed earnings missing Wall Street estimates, while revenues exceeded Wall Street expectations. Shares were up over 5% in after hours trading. GoDaddy reported EPS of $(0.11) and revenues of $456.2 million. Analyst consensus had an EPS estimate of $(0.07) and revenues of $450.32. At June 30, 2016, total cash, cash … [Read more...]