Building Online Sucess
If you are asking what happened in the IDN world recently in terms of progress, please look at the following sales: -????.com (Blog.com in Russian) sold for $3,435.37 dollars. (Link) -??.com (Shandong.com in Chinese) is currently in auction at €6,200 (Link) - ??????.com (Moscow.com in Russian) was verified as selling for $216,000 (Link) In addition, [...]
Read More »Opportunities abound in our new fixed price IDNTools.com marketplace that was just launched. Many top 50 terms, such as “Flowers, Doctors, Hotels, Games” are listed at historically low fixed prices. Here’s why you should take a serious look at investing in IDNs from the newly launched marketplace: *Quality. Many listed domains are category leaders with [...]
Read More »Opportunities abound in our new fixed price IDNTools.com marketplace being launched today. Many top 50 terms, such as “Flowers, Doctors, Hotels, Games” are listed at historically low fixed prices. Here’s why you should take a serious look at investing in IDNs from the newly launched marketplace: *Quality. Many listed domains are category leaders with jaw-dropping Google [...]
Read More »Jeremy Lin is the Chinese-American basketball sensation who has led the Knicks to five straight wins. Lin’s underdog story began when he was an undrafted Harvard graduate who was sleeping on his brother’s couch and was without a guaranteed contract. He rose rapidly to become the starting point guard for the New York Knicks and [...]
Read More »As a recap of the biggest sales year for IDNs yet, below we review the top reported IDN sales in 2011. A snapshot of some of the largest confirmed sales, courtesy of IDNTools Sales Charts, are as follows: Notable, is that even in this emerging IDN market, these top 10 public sales grossed over $100,000. [...]
Read More »Q: You are currently a co-founder of myTLD.com, a consulting and management firm for new TLDs. What services do you offer and what types of clients do you work with? A: At MyTLD we provide a wide range of services, from general domain advice; gTLD application writing, strategy, processing, and launch to companies, organizations, or [...]
Read More »Q: You are CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings, CEO and founder of Minds + Machines, CEO of dotNYC, and Principal of Names@Work. Are there any other companies or organizations that you are currently a part of, which I failed to mention? A: That’s about it, although I also act as an advisor to DomainsBot, [...]
Read More »The .?? ccTLD has quickly become a juggernaut with over 900,000 domains registered during its first year. Now .?? is officially open to non-Russian registrants. Below please find the official press release issued today, which also includes some interesting stats: Starting on November 11 foreigners are allowed to register domain names in the Cyrillic .?? [...]
Read More »I first learned about it by reading a Forbes article making the rounds (here) at the end of September. Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers (“ANA”) authored the article, which is entitled “How to (Unnecessarily) Encumber The Internet And The Economy” and argued that the new gTLD program will be [...]
Read More »As IDNBlog has recently entered into its 3rd year, we’ve had our share of breaking news and great interviews (Schwartz, Schilling, Wrixon, Dam and Gomes), auctions, newsletters, and events, but I am proudest of our diverse reader-base. Below, is a snapshot of where our traffic comes from in order. Though I can’t give traffic numbers, [...]
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