Former chairman sells 24.5 million shares in three transactions. Former Minds + Machines chairman Fred Krueger has sold about a fifth of his stake in the new top level domain name company since leaving at the end of last month. Krueger has sold 24.5 ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Fred Krueger pushed out of Minds + Machines, company reports $5 million bookings
· ServicesCo-founder leaves company and will focus on his website building platform. Minds + Machines released 2014 results today, and also announced that the board has voted co-founder Fred Krueger out of the company and his role as executive Chairman. Keith ... Continue Reading7 Comments
New TLDs this week: .Video, .Fit and .Sale
· ServicesMinds + Machines and Rightside introduce new domain names this week. A few domain names hit general availability or Early Access this Wednesday. Minds + Machines will launch .Fit with retail pricing of about $25 or so. .Fit is one of the company's ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Breaking down Minds + Machines’ domain name Portfolio
· ServicesRegistry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company ... Continue Reading2 Comments
New TLDs this week: .Flowers and .Wedding
· UncategorizedPick out your .flowers arrangement for the .wedding. Two top level domain names launch this week, and it's fitting that they launch near the same time. Uniregistry launches .Flowers on Tuesday, April 7. You can pick these domains up at a number of ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Minds + Machines pockets $1.68 from three more auction losses
· UncategorizedCompany gets cash for losing auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has added $1.68 million to its bank account after losing three more contention set auctions. The money primarily comes from losing .beauty and .soccer, both of ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Interesting: Minds + Machines patent app for using domain names as currency
· ServicesPatent application describes a novel way to use domain names as a currency. So far, we've seen some innovation in how new top level domain names are distributed and sold, but not much innovation in how they're actually used. Minds + Machines has an ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Minds + Machines reports numbers, including $36M from auctions
· ServicesBig 2014 numbers from losing auctions, but domain registration revenue starting to grow. Minds + Machines released some preliminary numbers for 2014 today. It can be summarized as: it pulled in a lot of cash from losing auctions, and registrations ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Minds + Machines gets .DDS, pockets millions from .store and .blog
· UncategorizedCompany adds to its cash pile as .dds, .store and .blog are settled. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced today that it has won the contention set for the .dds domain name, beating Google. DDS is short for "Doctor of Dental ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Why I registered .Casa and .Work domains
· UncategorizedInexpensive domain names are worth the risk. I can count on both hands the number of new domain name extensions I've registered domains under, and this week I added two more: .casa and .work. Minds + Machines launched both domain names today. So why ... Continue Reading6 Comments