DomainHoldings Releases Q2 Report 2014
DomainHoldings released recently their Q2 results, showing almost $10 million in sales and $764,278 average weekly sales.
You can read the press release after the jump:
“Domain Holdings is extremely proud to report our Q2 results showing almost $10,000,000 USD in sales. These results are not just a testimony of success for our team but further acknowledgment that our brand continues to earn trust around the world. During Q2 we celebrated a lot of success but also introduced many new features for both buyers and sellers. Some of the main highlights from Q2 were:
$9,935,618 in Total Q2 Sales
$764,278 Average Weekly Sales
79.21% of ALL Sales End Users
28% Increase in New Relationships
22% Increase in Numeric Domain Sales
Over 12,000 + Phone Calls
Over 72,000 Targeted Emails
More End Users
We handled transactions for great brands like PolicyMic, Wickr, Mark Cuban Investments, Liberty Tax and many more with 79.21% of all sales to end users (compared to 76.25% in Q1)
Custom Portfolio Management
Started the rollout of custom portfolio management for large owners of premium domains offering custom landing pages, a dedicated broker, portfolio valuation services, portfolio auction management and more. While this is currently an invite only offering we are open to discussing the program with any premium portfolio owner who is interested in increasing overall sales. View some of custom for sale landing pages by visiting 95.net, 617.com or designerclothes.com
More Inventory
Signed several exclusive corporate deals to handle existing inventory from of some of the world’s most notable brands.
More Training
Invested thousands of dollars on further sales and negotiation training for our brokers and tools to help refine our outbound sales approach.
While we celebrate our success in this report we should also look beyond the numbers and note that the value of premium domain names are growing due to the combined efforts of the industry and greater public awareness. From the success of the new GTLD’s to the millions of new dollars being invested in promoting existing options there never has been such a time with such extensive global marketing finally supporting the industry we love so much.
View the full Q2 report below or download the PDF version here.
ICANN : Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel Report on PIR’s Request to Implement Technical Bundling in .NGO and .ONG
To obtain community input on the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) report regarding Public Interest Registry’s (PIR) request to implement technical bundling of second level domains for .NGO and .ONG.
PIR defines technical bundling as a set of two different gTLDs, with identical second level labels for which certain parameters are shared.
Categories/Tags:
Top-Level Domains
Second-Level Domains
Contracted Party Agreements
Security/Stability
Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rstep-technical-bundling-2014-07-29-en
This announcement was sourced from :
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-29-en
Germany’s .DE Approaches 16 Million Domain Name Mark
Denic,the company behind .DE domain is approaching 16 million domain name registrations under .DE.This makes .DE one of the world’s largest ccTLD .
DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain name on 26 November 2010 and the 15 millionth .de domain name on April 18,2012.This means that in less than six months, almost 500,000 .DE domain names were registered .
There are 15,734,742 .DE domains registered up to date,according to the most recent figures on DENIC’s website.
The annual average growth rate of the recent years has been about 1 million domain names,which is an impressive number .Moreover,at the end of October/beginning of November 2010,domain growth gained particular momentum through the introduction of the special character eszett, ß .
Check out EuroDNS here to register your .DE domain name.
Heritage Auctions Releases Video About Premium Domains
Heritage Auctions released recently a video in which explaing the benefits of owning a premium domain name.
The video explains why it is important to spend significant sums of money to buy a premium domain name.Moreover, the video explains many important aspects of domain names for investment or business use.
You can see the video after the jump:
Flora ICT Acquires FreeGames.com Domain Name
The domain name FreeFames.com was recently acquired by Flora ICT, a company active in the game traffic market for more than a year.
According to whois records, the doman name changed hands on July 1st,2014 .Moreover, the domain name was first registered in 1996.The seller was Paul Keever.
Flora ICT operates 18 gaming websites, according to an article on talkarcades.com .
The sale price has not been shared publicly.
Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer.
