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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I couldn’t be more proud to be a Techstars alumni. Heralded as one of the top startup accelerators in the US (and #1 globally) and harder to get into than Harvard, Techstars continues to make waves in the startup space. Today Distil Networks, another [...] Continue reading
Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief covering 1Q-2015 today. The report revealed that the total number of domain names registered worldwide across all top-level domains had risen to 294 million by the end of the quarter - up nearly 18 million in 1 year. [...] Continue reading
If you’ve bought any quantity of short dot coms, especially LLL.coms then you most likely have dealt with Oliver Hoger. He is one the largest buyers and sellers of these types of domain in the world. He and I have discussed value of short names and their future and we both agree that we feel there is [...] Continue reading
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief today for the first quarter of 2015 6 million domain names were added to the Internet in the in Q1, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 294 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2015. The increase [...] Continue reading
Sedo did $1million in sales this week, 508 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Top .com: filament.com at 89,000 USD Top ccTLD: s1.tv at 8,400 USD Top “other” TLD: ccc.net at 17,888 USD Number 3 on the .com charts was HotMiami.com for [...] Continue reading
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Sedo had a nice week with 50% of all sales being through Buy It Now. The typical mix of names. Numerics, one word, CVCV.com and some you never would have guessed would have reached that price. Take a look through this week’s sales list. .COMs filament.com 89,000 USD ipek.com 40,000 USD hotmiami.com 15,000 USD tradingidea.com [...] Continue reading