Two acquisitions highlight top stories on Domain Name Wire last month.
Apparently the snow has thawed in Boston, and things are definitely heating up in the domain name name industry. There were two notable acquisitions last month and big changes at Google.
Here’s a look back at the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month:
1. GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million– Marchex divested its domain name portfolio of over 200,000 domains, and now GoDaddy has its own portfolio of domains to sell.
2. Is Amazon.com the biggest user of new domain names?– Amazon has registered a lot of dictionary word new TLDs and is forwarding them to sections of its website.
3. Google nixing domain names in mobile search – Many sites now just show a site name instead of the URL.
4. .London, .NYC and new ways to calculate the success of a TLD – A comparison of how domain names are being used.
5. Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million – Service popular with domain name sellers is acquired by Australian company.
SOfreedomains says
I’m fascinated with the acquisition of Marchex domain name portfolio by Godaddy. It will help the company to maintain its lead in the industry.
Jeff Schneider says
Hello SOfreedomains says,
Yes we agree with you on this, Here we have a case of Godaddy purchasing arguably the best Legacy .COM Extension portfolio ever assembled by Yun Ye, and at the same time the Anti-Competitive bush league actions of GOOGLE, who are clearly entering the Domain name arena, erasing URLs from their Search services. This move by GOOGLE is supplying US Congress and E.U. authorities, with a taste of how GOOGLE plans to treat Small Online businesses, with their Ruthless Cadre Powers.
GOOGLES Mobilegeddon, will morph into GOOGLEGEDDON , this power grab attempt will expose the Monopolistic Underbelley of GOOGLES , Highly Secret Manipulation of tyrannical dominance over the DNSs Nuetrality. These are desperate moves, on their part. We know their ( Jig Is UP ) , and its only a matter of time before the Legacy Extension Holders Lower the Boom On GOOGLE. JAS 4/29/15
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Former Rockefeller IBEC Marketing Analyst/Strategist)