Matt Cutts Announces SEO.Ninja

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Matt Cutts has been the head of Google’s Webspam team for quite some time, and he is currently on leave from the company. Cutts is seemingly the goto guy when it comes to SEO questions pertaining to Google, and he is pretty much the face of the company for many webmasters and SEOs.

In a tweet this evening, Cutts announced that his next project is called AutoSEO, and it can be found at SEO.Ninja. .Ninja is a new domain name extension operated by Rightside.

Here’s what Cutts had to say in the blog post he linked to in the above tweet:

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Daniel Negari Talks About .XYZ Domains on Fox Business

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Daniel Negari, CEO of the .XYZ domain name registry, was a guest this morning Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo. The upcoming GoDaddy IPO provided the backdrop to the interview.

The topic of discussion was primarily about .XYZ domain names, and Negari was able to chat about why someone would register them and what types of companies are buying .XYZ domain names. Negari also briefly discussed how the registry business works.

The appearance on Fox Business was brief, but I am sure this was good (and free) exposure for the company. The video of the interview is embedded below.

Nice to See Donuts Sharing

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Despite not having much of a financial stake with the new domain extensions at this point, I’ve been reading the Donuts blog with great interest as the company shares renewal data and insight. Since the vast majority of companies in the space are private, I did not expect to learn much aside from observations made using data from nTLDStats  (or NameStat.org).

As a privately held company, Donuts does not have to publicly share its  private data. In fact, most private companies in this space do not share beyond what is required. Donuts has been sharing though, and it is nice to see.

The information that Donuts is sharing is of interest to me both as an investor and as someone who covers domain industry news. It is useful to see renewal numbers, and it is also interesting to read Donuts’ interpretation of what they are seeing. For instance, I thought it was very interesting that Donuts believes  “more expensive domains will renew higher, other factors being equal, as the registrants have ascribed more value to those names.”

This level of sharing will likely be

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First Decline Reported on nTLDStats.com (Updated)

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I was looking at nTLDStats.com this morning, and I noticed what appears to be the first decline in the number of new gTLD domain name registrations. I looked through the chart since the website began tracking the number of domain registrations, and it appears that March 25 – 26, 2015 showed the first

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The Telegraph Writes About Daniel Negari

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Daniel Negari is the entrepreneur behind the .XYZ and .College domain registries. This morning, I learned that he also owns additional new gTLD registries.

The Telegraph published an article about the new gTLD domain extensions, and Daniel Negari’s business was written about fairly extensively. I found two pieces of information particularly interesting. From the article:

“Not all of the bidders are technology giants with deep pockets. Entrepreneur Daniel Negari launched a start-up in the US based around his purchase of dot-xyz and dot-college. The former has already made him $6.4m.

He has “several” others that he’s bought from the original winners on the open market that are yet to be announced.”

There has been quite a bit of speculation about

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Google “Doorway Page” Update Could Be a Problem

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A few people have mentioned a Google update that could be problematic for domain investors, and I want to share a few ways I think it could be harmful to domain investors.

On March 16th, Google announced “An update on doorway pages” via its official blog. Please read the entire blog post to see what is coming, but here is the main jist of the update:

 

“Over time, we’ve seen sites try to maximize their “search footprint” without adding clear, unique value. These doorway campaigns manifest themselves as pages on a site, as a number of domains, or a combination thereof. To improve the quality of search results for our users, we’ll soon launch a ranking adjustment to better address these types of pages. Sites with large and well-established doorway campaigns might see a broad impact from this change.”

 

This could be problematic for

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