These are the stories that attracted the most eyeballs last month. 1. Yes, Facebook chose Meta for its new name and forwards Meta.com - Facebook is now Meta, a company with metaverse ambitions. Domainers have been registering meta domains in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Club top level domain went MIA today
· Services.Club websites went down today as part of a DNS issue that has since been resolved. The .club registry went down this morning, taking down all .club domains. The problem has been resolved. The issue appears to have been with UltraDNS, a Neustar ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
SEC filing shows hefty price for .club and .design
· Domain RegistrarsSEC filing suggests GoDaddy paid about $80 million total for .club and .design top level domains. GoDaddy's latest quarterly filing with the SEC sheds new light on how much the company paid for the .club and .design top level domains. In April, ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Breaking: GoDaddy to acquire MMX, .Club, .Design
· UncategorizedGoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired 28 new top level domains from MMX, as well as the .Club and .Design top level domains. The company is paying $120 million for the MMX strings. MMX, a publicly-traded new top level domain company had a market cap of £40 ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Anyone can start a club on Clubhouse now. What does this mean for .Club?
· UncategorizedA new feature could improve the interplay between Clubhouse and .club domains. It's been quite a ride for .Club this year thanks to the popular Clubhouse app. Some people are buying .club domains to use in conjunction with the app, and many more ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Clubhouse app driving surge in .Club registrations
· Uncategorized.Club is on a tear thanks to the Clubhouse app. If you follow .Club founder Colin Campbell on twitter, you know he's been excited the past couple of weeks. .Club has been on a tear. Here's one of his tweets: The only way to describe it is ... Continue Reading1 Comment
New TLD Economics with Colin Campbell – DNW Podcast #198
· PodcastsDigging into .Club's revenue and the economics of new TLDs. New top level domain name company .Club landed on the 2018 Inc 5000. The Inc 5000 list shows that it had revenue of $7.2 million but I had lots of questions. Is this “real” revenue? Is the ... Continue Reading11 Comments
.Club posts $7.2 million revenue, lands on Inc 5000
· UncategorizedRevenue more than quadrupled from 2014 to 2017. New top level domain name registry .CLUB Domains has landed at #1164 on the newly released Inc 5000 for 2018. The list is ranked based on three-year revenue growth. The company had $7.2 million revenue ... Continue Reading27 Comments
.Club reports “topline” Q2 premium sales of $2.7 million
· Domain SalesRegistry gets huge uptake on its five-year payment plan deal. The .Club registry has released its quarterly report of premium domain name sales, including $2.7 million "topline value". "Topline value" is in quotes because $2.5 million of this ... Continue Reading7 Comments
.Club’s broker and payment plan programs are driving sales
· Domain SalesTwo new programs drive bulk of dollar volume of premium domains last quarter. .Club reported over $500,000 in premium sales in the first quarter of 2017, and it has two new programs to thank for the results. The first program is a payment plan ... Continue Reading7 Comments