A year ago on January 1, 2016 we started a poll asking the question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? On January 1, 2006 according to Verisign there were 123,963,640 .Com domain names in the Domain Base. As of today January 1, 2017 there are 126,930,421 .Com domain names. As for the poll we gave you these choices and out of the 286 votes cast this was the … [Read more...]
A look at how domain stocks did in 2016, if you owned Tucows you were very happy
2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much. Tucows was the star for 2016 up 67% on the year. Neustar got acquired and the stock finished up close to 40%. Verisign saw their fortunes take a down turn in 2016, all the speculative hand regs based on Chinese whims did not materialize in 2016 … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Loses Another 1 Million Domains In Less Than 2 Weeks; Now Under 127 Million
It was just on December 16th that we reported that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign had dropped below 128 Million. As of today the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign who operates the .Com registry has dropped by another million domains to under 127 Million. In late 2015 the Chinese domain market was on … [Read more...]
.Com Domain Registrations Back Under 128 Million
Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base have fallen below 128 Million. Back in September of this year we reported the number of .com domain name had broken through the 128 million mark for the first time. For the record, Verisign defines the Domain Name Base "is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured … [Read more...]
Trump and Weed trending in November according to Verisign
Donald Trump was all over the November top 10 trending keywords published by Verisign. 7 of the top 10 trending keywords in .com were related to the President - Elect. The rest were related to marijuana names which dominated … [Read more...]
3,500 Trump .Com & .Net Domains Registered in Last 48 Hours
According to Verisign, the registry for the .Com and .Net domain names, since election day November 8th almost 3,200 .Com and 330 .net domains containing the word Trump have been registered. A lot of domains already are calling for Trump's impeachment, some are boring on criminal as threatening the President elect with violence; some are already indicating the next grounds for protest; some … [Read more...]
.Net Domain Registrations Cross The 16 Million Mark For The 1st Time
The number of domain name registrations ending in .Net crossed the 16 million mark for the first time today according to Verisign. According to Verisign the number of .Net domain names is 16,004,860. This all time high is despite over 1,000 new domain extensions being released over the last 2+ year and the fact that a .net domain name wholesale cost now just slightly lower than … [Read more...]