5 Stories on Reglike — October’s Top
A look back at last month in the domain name industry.
Halloween has passed and the holiday season is quickly approaching.
Last month’s big domain name news included bullish analyst notes on fresh TLDs, a Big Apple domain, and zero click traffic. Here are the top five stories from last month in order of most views.
1. Analyst: fresh TLDs to hit $500 million in 3 years – B. Riley Analyst Sameet Sinha issued a note estimating the revenue potential of fresh TLDs will be $500 million within 3 years. Later in the month he upped his forecast to close to $1 billion.
2. See GoDaddy’s clever .NYC barge ad – GoDaddy’s .nyc ad on a barge turned heads — and made the firm the largest registrar for .nyc domain names.
3. Warning: do you know where your parked domain traffic is going? Zero click ad controls are apparently lacking, and this could put your domain name at risk.
4. Amazon.com buys .spot domain name for $2.2 million, .Realty sells for $5.6 million – this month’s ICANN “Auctions of Last Resort” resolved three fresh top level domain name contention sets.
5. How you can (and can’t) justify recent Top Level Domain auction prices – Christa Taylor with .TBA analyzed the payback period for fresh TLDs purchased at auction.
