How GMO plans to make its big investment in .shop pay off.
GMO Registry paid $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. How will it make its money back? CEO Hiro Tsukahara discusses why he believes the price was justified and reveals some major sales that have already occurred. He also explains why the company chose a new global brand (it paid nearly $7 million for Z.com). Also: the latest news including Ted Cruz, ICANN and a stolen domain name.
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Jovenet Consulting says
I listened to the comments in regard to the .TOKYO new gTLD. If you look at the registration curve, week by week, it is a successful TLD. There is no “red”. It never lost registrations. See here for City new gTLDs: http://www.jovenet.consulting/reports/city
brand says
Another great podcast. I don’t dabble in the new extensions at all and never will, but it’s great to hear whats going on with them.
Thanks as always Andrew…
Andrew Allemann says
Thanks for listening!
YamadaMedia says
“.COM sold for $135 million.”
Mmm… interesting Andrew. 🙂
Andrew Allemann says
Did I say .com instead of .web?
YamadaMedia says
Yup,
Since Verisign now has .web they figured they don’t need to be the registry for .com. 😉