Domain Magnate

NameMedia announced its award winning AfternicDLS marketplace has been selected as the exclusive expiry auction partner by leading Internet registrar Tucows. Effective immediately, thousands of daily expired domains from Tucows are automatically available for auction on Afternic. The estimated addition of 100,000 premium domains each month to AfternicDLS inventory will further enhance the selection of domain options for Afternic members. Afternic DLS currently offers millions of premium domains for sale to a global audience of buyers and sellers and enjoys the highest domain sales market share in the industry.

Tucows,one of the top five registrars in the world, joins an expanding list of top-tier registrars who are selecting Afternic as their exclusive auction platform for expiry domains. read more »

Interesting registry statistics published on domainnews.com

There were almost 33 million new domain names registered in 2007 according to the fourth quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. This brings the total of domain names registered to more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). This represents a 27 percent increase over the same quarter last year, and 5 percent growth over the third quarter of 2007.

Of these registrations, the .com and .net adjusted base surpassed 80.4 million domain name registrations at the end of 2007. This represents a 24 percent increase year over year and a four percent increase quarter over quarter. The adjusted base grew by 3.5 million domain names in the fourth quarter and 15.4 million over the entire year. New .com and .net domain name registrations were added at an average of 2.5 million per month in the fourth quarter 2007 for a total of 7.5 million new registrations. read more »