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.Com
Registrations Pass the 100 Million Mark - Final
Agenda Set for DOMAINfest Global + Announcements
from the AfternicDLS and Sedo
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Domain
registrations
have passed another milestone - with the
biggest TLD of them all - .com - doing
the honors this time. DomainsTools.com announced
today that their research into the
zone file found .com registrations had hit 100.2
million. Later in the day, the operator or
the .com and .net registries, Verisign,
said in the their latest quarterly
earnings report that they ended 2011
with approximately 113.8 million
registrations in those two extensions
(they did not break out the separate numbers for
.com and .net but that total appears to
substantiate the DomainTools report). That
represented an 8% jump in the number of
.com/,net registrations from the previous year.
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Image: digitalart
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The final
agenda for the 2012
DOMAINfest Global conference has
been released. The 6th annual event gets
underway Tuesday (Jan. 31) at the
Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa
Monica, California and continues
through Thursday (Feb. 2). |
Over
30 expert speakers are set to provide
internet entrepreneurs, domain investors and
online publishers with the latest tips on how to
maximize traffic, conversions and monetization.
As always, the educational benefits will be
complemented with a full slate of networking
activities and evening parties that
will keep guests DOMAINfest busy from sunup to
midnight each day.
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The AfternicDLS
continues to expand its domain
listing service that puts premium
domain names in front of thousands of
potential buyers searching for domains
through partnering registrar's
sites. |
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The
latest addition to the network is a big
one - Tucows
- a pioneering registration giant that
has over 11 million domains under
management. Registrants are able to have
their domains for sale seen on more
than 50 partner sites that are part
of Afternic's worldwide network.
The Afternic platform also features Instant
Transfer technology that allows
buyers to pay for and receive names in
one easy transaction.
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Another
aftermarket giant, Sedo,
also had an announcement today -
the release of a detailed fact
sheet that spells out the features, reach, and pricing of each of
Sedo’s sales channels:
Sedo’s website, the SedoMLS
Basic Network, and the SedoMLS
Premium Network.
Sedo noted that the rapid expansion of the |
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functionality to Sedo’s Domain
Marketplace required an update
to their pricing structure a few
months ago, so the fact
sheet will make it easy for
sellers to see what the
commission rate is for each
level of service. |
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(Posted Jan.
26, 2012)
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