.Com accounted for 61% of registrations at Namecheap this year. Namecheap released a report this week showing which top level domains were most popular with its customers this year. With just a couple of weeks left in the year, the winners are ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Three German domain players join .shop
· UncategorizedThree former IONOS group employees are now working with GMO Registry. Three domain industry vets from Germany have joined GMO Registry to promote and manage the .shop top level domain name. Christian Voss, formerly CMO of Sedo, Michael ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Square to buy Weebly for $365 million
· UncategorizedBattle for website building and ecommerce platform supremacy is heating up. Payments company Square (NYSE: SQ) is acquiring website building company Weebly, the company announced this afternoon. The $365 million cash and stock deal is expected to close ... Continue Reading3 Comments
#6 in 2016: GMO goes shopping for .Shop
· UncategorizedA story about GMO's $41.5 million auction win for .shop was the sixth-most read story on Domain Name Wire this year. An ICANN auction of last resort for the .Shop top level domain name took place in January. It closed at a then-record $41.5 ... Continue Reading3 Comments
.Shop domain names are now free
· Domain RegistrarsMoniker offers first-year registration for free, but limited to one per customer. GMO Registry, the company behind the .shop top level domain names, is offering free .shop domain names through December 23. So far, the promotion is being offered by ... Continue Reading10 Comments
.Shop enters dangerous territory with SSL freebie
· Domain RegistrarsFree SSL is likely to make registrar partners uneasy. Last week GMO Registry, the company behind the .shop top level domain name, announced that it was providing a free SSL certificate to registrants of .shop domain names. While this might seem like ... Continue Reading3 Comments
.Shop soars with 40,000 registrations in first 30 minutes
· UncategorizedHigh demand for new .shop top level domain name. GMO Registry launched the .shop top level domain name yesterday and the early results are impressive. 39,801 .shop domain names were registered within the first 30 minutes and 45,427 within the first ... Continue Reading5 Comments
.Games and .Shopping hit registrars this week
· UncategorizedRightside and Donuts released new domain names this week. Two new top level domain names launched this week with one entering general availability and the other hitting early access. Rightside's (NASDAQ:NAME) .Games entered general availability with ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Hiro Tsukahara – DNW Podcast #102
· PodcastsHow 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 ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Lots of companies are shopping for .Shop
· Domain SalesRegistry already has some notable premium domain name sales. GMO Registry paid a whopping $41.5 million to acquire rights to the .shop top level domain name. Hiro Tsukahara, CEO of GMO Registry, told Domain Name Wire in a podcast that will be ... Continue Reading2 Comments
