According to DN Journal, through December 18, 2016, there were only four million dollar domain sales for the year: HG.com ($3.77M) Vivo.com ($2.1M) Jade.com ($1.25M) LA.com ($1.2M) According to Namestat, the top new gTLD’s were as follows: .TLD Domains 1 .xyz 6,026,933 2 .top 4,298,844 3 .win 1,126,266 4 .loan 911,502 5 .wang (net) 861,567 6…
IAB – Click Fraud Reaches Nearly $12B This year, click fraud is on track to cost marketers $11.6 billion in advertising — up 22% from 2013 — according to survey findings released earlier this week by Solve Media. To combat click fraud, the IAB has released its final version of best practices which is available…
ICANN at 15 and California’s New Political Blogger Rules Podcast: Play in new window | Download (53.0MB) [Don’t forget to download the WebmasterRadio Mobile App so you can listen wherever you go]. ICANN at 15 with John Jeffrey CLBR preview blog post It was a special treat to go inside ICANN and meet with John Jeffrey, ICANN’s longtime General…
ICANN Considering Scrapping “Who Is” System An ICANN report has concluded that the current WHOIS system of giving every user the same anonymous public access to (too often inaccurate) gTLD registration data—should be abandoned. Instead, the EWG recommends a paradigm shift whereby gTLD registration data is collected, validated and disclosed for permissible purposes only, with some…
ICANN’S REVEAL DAY What Are the New gTLDs and What Does it All Mean Wednesday is what ICANN labeled as “Reveal Day,” for the moment when it announced the applicants who paid the $185,000 application fee for 1,409 new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in what some where calling the “greatest internet landgrab in history.” One…
Next on CLBR: Divide and Reveal Nigel Cameron discusses the Silicon Valley-DC Divide and David Mitnick discusses ICANN’s gTLD announcement. Today in History 1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to ban the importation of slaves. Led in part by Moses Brown, who converted to Quakerism after his wife’s death and became the state’s leading abolition.…
GTLD-a-Go-Go on Reveal Day At 5AM Pacific, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will announce applied for generic top level domains. Nearly 2,000 applications paid $185,000 for gTLDs. One company Donuts has applied for 307 gTLDS. Here’s some of the headlines on the announcement: Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history.…
Commerce Department Rejects ICANN Bid for Long-Term Contract The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has managed internet domains since 1998 under contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce has failed in its bid to win a long-term extension but instead won only a six-month reprieve as DOC announced it had “received…
SPECIAL DOMAIN FEST EDITION OF CLBR LISTEN TO PODCAST Eli Goodman – Search Evangelist (Day 1 Keynote Speaker) EMr. Goodman leads the business development and research team for comScore’s Product Specialty division, where he plays an integral role in educating the industry on how to best merge marketing functions across platforms, including traditional…
Ted’s Tubes Top 10 Domain Sales 2009-2010 Top 10 Domain Sales for 2009-2010 Domain $ (MM) 1 Sex.com > $13.00 2 Slots.com $5.50 3 Toys.com $5.10 4 Candy.com $3.00 5 Fly.com $1.76 6 Dating.com $1.75 7 Auction.com $1.70 8 Ticket.com > $1.525 9 Russia $1.50 10 Photo.com $1.25
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