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$1.1
million. The next highest sales wereLuxuryApartments.com
($62,500), CJ.org ($29,420), CashIt.com
($5,890), BasketbalDrills.com
($1,400) and MessageBoards.net
($1,180). The remaining sales were
below $1,000 each.
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Speaking
of online auctions, here is one
you may not have heard about -
but you will need to act quickly
if you want to participate. It
is NetFleet.com.au's
auction of
technology domains in Australia's
.com.au country code
extension. |
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That
auction will end at 3pm
Australian Eastern Standard Time
(AEST) Friday (August 27). I
am writing this around 6pm U.S.
Eastern Daylight Time on
Thursday, but AEST is 14
hours later than it is here
- which means this sale will be
ending at 1AM Friday morning in
the Eastern U.S. (10pm
Thursday night in America's
Pacific time zone). In short,
you have just a few hours
until the auction ends, so check
it out now if you are interested
in some great names like Network.com.au,
Notebook.com.au, Servers.com.au,
Cables.com.au and Printers.com.au. |
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Country
code domains have come on
like gangbusters over the past
couple of years and a week
rarely goes by without news of
continuing growth in the major
ccTLDs around the world. Last
week SIDN,
operator of the Netherlands'
.NL extension, announced
the total number of domains
registered in that extension had
crossed the 4 million
mark, making it the 4th most
popular country code (TLD
representing one nation) in the
world (behind only Germany's
.DE, Great Britain's
.UK, and China's .CN).
The
4 millionth name registered was TomGoesUSA.nl
and to celebrate SIDN gave the
registrant of that name, Tom
ter Heerdt of Didam,
a free iPad! |
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Another
country code we have been
hearing more about is Mexico's
.mx. Interest in that
extension was boosted when
Mexico began allowing 2nd level
registrations (.mx only),
opening up new possibilities in
an extension that previously
used third level addresses, like
.com.mx, .net.mx,
etc. Mike Curving of Austin,
Texas, who operates Sales.mx,
recently published an
interesting case study on
how quickly .mx is being
adopted. You can check
that out here. |
Another country code report you
will want to check out, if you haven't
done so already, is Nominet's
latest Domain
Name Industry Report
covering 2009, that was released last
week. Nominet operates Great
Britain's popular .uk
extension and their annual report is
loaded with detailed information on .uk
and the domain industry at large.
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One
other important note today, Alexa
Raad has resigned
at President and CEO of the Public
Interest Registry (PIR),
operator of the .ORG
extension, effective on
September 24. Alexa has led the
organization since early 2007
and under her leadership, the
.ORG base grew by 42%,
soaring from 5.5 million registrations
to over 8.5 million. .ORG
now also leads the industry in
terms of the numbers of users
that retain their .ORG
domains after the first and
subsequent years.
Ms.
Raad said, "“I have been
fortunate to work with an
extraordinary team and lead PIR
through a period of change to
tremendous achievement.
While I remain personally
committed to .ORG and its core
mission, the time has come for
me to seek new challenges and
opportunities in the private
sector."
The
PIR Board has assigned a
committee to search for a new
CEO. In the meantime, Chairman
of the Board Maarten
Botterman will serve as
Interim CEO following Ms. Raad's
departure. We wish Alexa, one of
our Facebook friends, continued
success as she enters the next
chapter of what has been a very
impressive career. |
Alexa
Raad
PIR.org President and CEO |
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