Whenever I see a TechCrunch tweet mentioning a large fundraising round for a company with a short and/or generic-ish brand name, I immediately focus on the domain name used by the company. This morning, TechCrunch published an article about a company called Ada, which announced a $44 million Series B funding round:
Ada raises $44M Series B to improve its chatbot customer service platform https://t.co/7Ui4sbBdpz by @mjburnsy pic.twitter.com/555yJDktNg
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) March 19, 2020
Radix is set to publish a press release this morning highlighting its revenue from 2019. Radix operates ten new gTLD extensions, including .Store, .Online, .Tech, .Website, and .Host among others. In January of this year, Radix shared a report covering its revenue for the second half of 2019. Today’s report contains details and date from the full year.
Here are five highlights from the report that were shared with me by a representative from the company:
In a tweet sent yesterday afternoon and shared with me by a couple of different people, New York City’s official Twitter account shared a link to a humorous website that is utilizing a .NYC domain name: BillyNeverIdles.NYC. It’s a pun based off the name of musician Billy Idol, and the campaign stars Billy Idol:
When you get your first check from the city after you report idling.https://t.co/SM8LR2ZTOw pic.twitter.com/YNppB6BKJZ
— City of New York (@nycgov) February 27, 2020
The first .Gay website went online this week, according to an email I received from the .Gay registry, Top Level Design. ILove.Gay was launched this week by Pink Media, becoming the first .Gay domain name website to launch. The registry also published blog post with details about this website and information about .Gay:
Oh hey! .Gay is here.#iLoveGay made history this week as the first-ever .gay site on the internet!
🏆 —> https://t.co/jbJkOZehpB#DotGayIsHere pic.twitter.com/AvprXf3Qop
— DotGay (@officialdotgay) February 18, 2020
The .NYC registry management team retweeted a tweet from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio who was encouraging people to visit a city website for more information about registering to vote. The tweet was off interest to me because the website the Mayor referenced is found on a .NYC domain name – Voting.NYC:
ATTENTION NEW YORK CITY: the deadline to change parties before the New York Primary is THIS FRIDAY.
Don’t sit this one out — head to https://t.co/EJhQZ3CtEk right now for more information. #DemocracyNYC pic.twitter.com/h0q5NK1RIq
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) February 12, 2020
Adam Yamada-Hanff shared a link with me to a My First Million podcast featuring someone who has been active in the business of domain names but I had never heard about him or his business before. I embedded the podcast at the bottom of this article.
Sheel Mohnot runs a company called Innovative Auctions, and according to his reporting on the podcast, the company sold more than half a billion dollars worth of Internet real estate. You may be scratching your head a bit, as did I, but the company was responsible for many of the auctions involving the new gTLD domain name extensions. Many of the new gTLD contention sets participated in the ascending clock second price auctions managed by Sheel’s company. According to the podcast, the top couple of auctions went for over $100 million, although the extensions and amounts were not shared.
Here’s a description of the podcast found at the Listen Notes website:
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