.co.com: 10k Domains at 1 Year Anniversary

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Ken Hansen from the .co.com registry shared some news with me that I want to share with you. The .co.com registry recently celebrated its one year anniversary, and there are now more than 10,000 .co.com domain names registered. .co.com domain names retail for anywhere from $20 – $40, and some registrars have a higher renewal cost. The registry has also sold many domain names at a premium cost, such as Mobile.co.com for $25,000.

If .co.com were a new gTLD registry, the extension would rank as one of the top 100 registries (based on the nTLDStats.com list of top new gTLD registries). The registry also reported increasing momentum towards the end of 2014. According to the press release announcing the news, “many companies are using their .co.com domain rather than their country code top-level domain to better reach potential outside of their borders.”

A key test for the registry will be the renewal rate for its registered domain names. Since some registrars are charging more for renewals, this could lead to an uptick in revenue. On the other hand, this could also lead to a higher attrition rate.

The press release announcing the news is published below:

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How Enhancements to NameBio Will Help Domain Investors

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When I am buying or selling a domain name and looking for comparable sales data, I use NameBio. There are nearly a quarter of a million of archived public domain name sales reported by most of the major resale marketplaces dating back to the 1990s listed in the NameBio database.

According to a press release I received this morning, NameBio was recently revamped and the website was upgraded. NameBio has been operated by Adam Strong of Strong, Inc., and the press release announced a new strategic alliance with Michael Sumner. Both Adam and Michael have extensive knowledge of the domain space, and that gives them insight about what will make NameBio most useful for users.

Some of the major enhancements that were made that will interest domain investors include the following:

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Rook Media Rebranding as Domain Sponsor

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Founded by Ovesee.net in 2002, Domain Sponsor is one of the oldest and most well-known domain name parking companies. The company has thousands of clients, and even people within the domain industry who don’t work with Domain Sponsor likely know the brand because of its DomainFest conference sponsorships.

In April of 2014, Rook Media acquired Domain Sponsor and its clients. After the acquisition, Rook Media gave clients the option to continue using the familiar Domain Sponsor platform or to switch to the Rook platform. Since the closing of the acquisition, the company has undergone the process of migrating the databases and features of both platforms. Essentially, this means that a client using Rook and a client using Domain Sponsor would have access to the same features, albeit with different branding.

Rook Media has been advertising on my blog for well over a year, and at the beginning of the year,

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Verisign to Share .Com and .Net Registration Trends

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In a blog post from Tuesday, Verisign announced that the company will be “launching a new monthly blog post series that will identify the top 10 trending .COM and .NET keywords registered in English.” The trend reports will be shared on the company’s Between  The Dots blog.

I don’t know how much value can be extracted from the lists that are shared, but they will certainly offer some insight into what is trending in new domain registrations. I would imagine these lists would be similar to the new listings on domain marketplace venues.

The company released the top 10 keyword registration trends for .com and .net in January 2015:

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Take the 2015 DNW Survey

Elliot Silver
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Each year, Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire puts out a domain industry survey for people involved in the business of domain names. The survey asks a variety of questions related to all aspects of the business, and it gives all of us some valuable insight. This is the tenth year Andrew has run this annual survey.

Andrew began to distribute the 2015 domain industry survey last week, and I encourage you to fill it out honestly. The information shared can be helpful to companies that provide services to people in the domain name space, and it can also

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With a Domain Acquired in 2014, Attend.com Has Raised $5.6 Million

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Yesterday morning, CrunchBase reported that Attend.com raised $5.6 million in Series A funding. Attend.com was founded in 2013 with goal of creating web and mobile event management software to serve the multi-billion dollar market for event management.

Boston based .406 Ventures played a key role incubating and providing seed funding for the launch of the company. .406 Ventures provided the vast majority of the Series A funding along with additional financing from Comerica Bank. Matt Engel, the CEO for Attend.com, led the financing effort for Attend.com

Attend.com was established in 2013 as Attendware, and it originally used Attendware.com for its business. It appears that the Attend.com domain name was privately acquired in early 2014. Although I could not find a public record of its sale, my guess is that it cost into the 6 figures to acquire Attend.com. I don’t personally know the former owner of Attend.com, but I have seen his Whois information on some exceptional domain names.

In doing my  research about Attend.com, I noticed that someone with significant domain industry experience helped the company acquire

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