Donuts published their May domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. In the month of May 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 22% shorter and were hyphenated 1% less than .com domain registrations. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Mon...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and PTSD.org led the way at $50,000. I remember Shane Bellone owned it and mentioned it on Namepros, I don't know if he was the seller. wilhelmus.nl was second at 30,000 Euro, ($36,691). AMQ.com was tied with ImToken.cn for third at $30,000. 32 .com sales 25 cctld sales […] The post Sedo weekly dom...

The folks over at Guta.com published their Q1 2021 premium domain sales observation report. The report primarily focuses on domain sales in the following categories: 1-4 Numbers, 1-3 Letters, 2Characters, and English dictionary one-word .com domains. Of interest to me in the report was the breakdown of one word .com sales. A total of 78 […] T...

Ebay is cracking down on all things sex starting June 15, 2021. In a letter sent to members, We have revised our policy on adult articles, the notice says. As of June 15, 2021, items that display sexual activity, sexual content, or sexually suggestive poses will no longer be allowed on eBay.com. Items in […] The post Adult domain names will ...

India is rolling new rules for social media platforms. Social media giants have to start complying with rules set out by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. According to India Today, the platforms will have to appoint compliance officers from India. That officer will look into complaints, monitor the content and remove it...

After many people asking for two factor authentication at Afternic, it has finally arrived. An email went out today and now members can set up two factor authentication. Steps: Go to your Afternic Account Details page. Scroll down to the Security section, and click the new "Manage 2-Step Verification" button. Choose the 2SV method you'd […] T...

Bhavin Turakhia has been very busy, after co-founding Directi in 1998 with his brother, Divyank Turakhia, the two exited the business in 2014 in a $160 million transaction with Endurance (now Newfold Digital). Turakhia then went on to start Radix, a leading new gTLD registry; Titan, a next-gen email suite for the small business customers […] ...

Privacy.com is rebranding. The new name will be Lithic. The company was founded in 2014, the companys focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. TechCrunch details the rebranding and highlights the latest capital raise: As part of its new strategy, Privacy.com announced today that it has changed its [R...

Kristuna Misic over at SmartBranding.com interviewed Robin Weesie, founder and CEO of Exclusive. Robin discusses the business and why he chose Exclusive.com for the project. He made mention of how so many individual influencers and YouTubers fail when they try to go with a personal website or app. Exclusive is a platform that is looking […] T...

Sophie Kiderlin published an article today at BusinessInsider.com that delves into the red hot NFT space. Sophie writes that,volumes in dollar terms have since fallen to below $28 million on average in the past week from around $78.62 million a month ago, according to data from nonfungible.com. The article mentions Mark Cuban of Shark Tank […...

GREAT! is a new free-to-air entertainment network that will launch in the UK on 5/25/21. The domain name Great.tv was purchased by the new entity. Great.tv is redirecting to GreatTV.co.uk. The GREAT! channel portfolio consists of GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, GREAT! movies classic and GREAT! tv. All of the channels will be available on [R...

When hearing about sales it's always great when you can get the full story. To go from opening offer to negotiations to a successful closing. Namepros member Uzver wrote a detailed account of a sale of a two word .co that brought home a great price. The name was bought in May 2019.Listed it for […] The post Detailed story on a domain name sal...

Donuts published their April domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. From the report: In the month of April 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 25% shorter and were hyphenated 5% less than .com domain registrations. Top 20 Premium Domains ...

100% of .Tech Domain Sales Made Through GoDaddy, Domain.com & Namecheap to Go Towards Enhancing K-12 CS Curriculum .Tech Domains, the leading new domain extension for the tech ecosystem, recently announced that it is collaborating with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools. The campaign, which is cal...

BULLISH.COM sold for $1,080,000 last November at Best Web. Today Bloomberg published a piece on how the million dollar domain name will be used. It will be a crypto exchange. Bullish will offer institutional and retail investors market making, lending and portfolio management services without use of intermediaries like banks. From the article: Bull...

"You come at the king you best not miss" David Pierce over at Protocol wrote an interesting article with a provocative title. The plot to kill .com. In the interview Pierce discussed how the buyers of Angel.com went on their journey to rebrand and finally end up with the best name possible. Paul Nicks is […] The post Is there a plot to kill ....

GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Fox Business. Aman starts out talking about small businesses and the effects of the pandemic. Around the 2:37 mark Liz Claman asks Aman about the auction market. Aman mentioned record growth on the auction side. I thought it was interesting that Liz said, It's almost like trading stocks, trading […] The po...

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported first quarter earnings today. After hours82.75+0.51 (0.62%) GoDaddy raised its full year revenue expectations by $45 million to $3.745 billion, representing approximately 13% year over year growth. Revenue growth by category is expected to approximate double-digit growth in Domains, high-single-digit growth in Hosting ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and CopyMarkets.com led the way at 150,000 Euro, ($180,271). SuperWorld.com was second at 45,000 Euro, ($54,081). SpaceCoin.com was third at $35,000. 44 .com sales 18 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    copymarkets.com at 150,000 EUR acro.cn at [...

Back in 2015 Keith Trost of Nas.com fame, sold SpaceCoin.com for $5,000 on Sedo. Monday it was flipped for 7x to $35,000. Virtual Network SA out of Switzerland looks to have been the seller this time around. The domain name was registered way back in 1999. It's what people mean when something like coin gets […] The post SpaceCoin.com sells fo...

There were 133 new gtld domain name sales in April 2021. As in previous months .xyz and .club continue to post the most monthly sales. .Xyz registered 16 mostly on the impressive results of DNGear.com. .Club posted 21 sales. 2021 has produced just 10 five figure new gtld domain name sales for the first third […] The post New Gtld reported sal...

Another NamesCon Online is scheduled for September 22-24. This time it will be $99 for a standard pass, current special running til July 4, $79. It looks like this time around registry, registrar, and marketplace team employees will be paying more. Will you be attending? The post NamesCon Online for a second time in 2021 – September 22-24 app...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and TN-i.com led the way at $61,990. Well done to the seller, that much for a LL-L.com is a great price. Only 32 reported LL-L.com sales, one at 5 figures. KVEE.com was second at $50,100. Sound.de was third at 31,500 Euro, ($38,080). 42 .com sales 30 cctld sales […] The post Sedo weekly domain name...

Gordon Ramsay is apparently dealing with someone trying to cause confusion with his name. In 2019, Kushnarenko Oleksii set up gordonrumsay.com, having changed just one letter of the stars real website gordonramsay.com. In January, Mr Ramsays lawyers filed an official complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organisation insisting the Russian na...

Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) reported earnings after the close. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 was 73.5 percent compared to 73.8 percent for the same quarter in 2019. Financial Highlights Verisign ended the first quarter of 2021 with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.18 billion, an increase [̷...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Angel.com led the way at $2 million. 1of1.com was second at $85,000. Credit.de was third at 40,000 Euro, ($48,135). 77 .com sales 25 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    pie.co at 32,000 USD ela.net at 15,051 […] The post Sedo weekly domain ...

Two weeks ago Lottery.com announced the acquisition of Sports.com. In an interview conducted last week the CEO of Lottery.com Tony DiMatteo discusses how they got the domain name Lottery.com back in the day. They were AutoLotto.com. Turns out the owner who DiMatteo says acquired Lottery.com for 8 figures, contributed the domain along with cash when...

It was just on March 30 that Dave Evanson tweeted out that Angel.com was under exclusive brokerage. Registered in 1993 owned by Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. Now it's sold Congrats to seller and Dave The post Angel.com sold for $2m Dave Evanson does it again appeared first on TheDomains.com.

Sedo released their weekly domain names sales and Link.co led the way at 135,000 Euro, ($161,383). grundsteuerwert.de was second at 40,000 Euro, ( $47,814). Containerhomes.com was third at $32,000. 45 .com sales 16 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    jdi.org at 18,000 USD countrycannabis.com [&...

Peter Askew (VidaliaOnions.com) was on a podcast by Practical Ecommerce, Peter discusses how he acquired VidaliaOnions.com back in the day. The host Eric Bandholz Biothen goes into domain names and how and where to buy them with Peter. Since the majority of the audience is interested in ecommerce and starting online businesses I think getting [R...

NameJet/Snapnames sales for March were released today. At NameJet Mutation.com was the top sale at $26,555. Neway.com was second at $14,500 and Enak.com took third at $10,500. At Snapnames ManagedCareMag.com was the top sale at $28,000. iWager.com was my favorite name from the list at $9,995. Top NameJet Sale:  mutation.com – $26,555 Top...

A member of Namepros showed a leaked email about the early days of Coinbase. There is a leaked email from 2012 that shows what the founders were thinking of when it came to naming their company. Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam they are currently looking to go public. The Coinbase IPO […] The post On the heels of a huge IPO ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Spline.com led the way at $62,500. Multitude.com was second at $50,000 and psilocybin.org was third at $49,000. 55 .com sales 22 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    spline.com at 62,500 USD yatoula.com at 15,000 EUR  spin.io […] The p...

So Mike Sallese pointed this one out to me, a story on TheBlockCrypto.com posted an article about Bitcoin.com being listed for sale on GoDaddy for $100 million. Yogita Khatri wrote: Roger Ver, the owner of the domain, said it is in fact not for sale. "100% fake news," he told The Block. Ver showed The […] The post GoDaddy takes down $100m lis...

George Kirikos put his research hat on and tweeted out that Live Current Media sold a domain name on March 22, 2021 for USD $1,150,000. See page F-13 of their SEC filing at: sec.gov/Archives/edgar From what I can tell, it appears to be the Boxing(.)com domain name. [2/2] Boxing(.)com nameservers changed in March (from Digital […] The post Did...

Back on January 22 the news broke that Ethos Capital, LLC would acquire the controlling interest in Donuts Inc. Acquisition includes worlds largest portfolio of top-level domain names. Today they put out a press release BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ethos Capital, LLC (Ethos Capital), a private equity firm that invests in middle-market compani...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and GWI.com led the way at $105,000. 717.com was right behind at $101,000. Showing how numerics have dropped off as I think 2016-2017 that name is triple. 1588.com was third at $25,388. 50 .com sales 22 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS […] The post Sedo weekly domain...

DialSource.com is rebranding to Conquer.io. The move from a .com to a .io will send some screaming from the rafters. In 2019 Agentology.com rebranded to Verse.io. Conquer published a lengthy blog post on the change. It's important to note they are not an underfunded or no funded startup that always seem to move to a […] The post Dial Source r...

Owning a two letter .com is a symbol of exclusivity and prestige. There are only 676 available, one company is moving on from their special domain and redirecting it. The company is rebranding from RB.com to Reckitt. The new company website is Reckitt.com. The company released a video and press release: The post RB rebrands as Reckitt appeared firs...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Germanium.com led the way at $45,000. Je.de was second at 30,000 Euro, ($35,546). HumanIngenuity.com was third at $31,500. 56 .com sales 31 cctld sales 19 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    humaningenuity.com at 31,500 USD crypto.chat at 19,900 USD […] ...

Michael Saylor did an episode on TheHustle uploaded to their YouTube Channel. Saylor talks about how he sold Voice.com and other domain names he developed and sold. Domain names like Alarm.com which is now publicly traded. Angel.com was another business Michael Saylor talks about in the video. It's a good listen worth your time. The post The Hustle...

Another five figure .io sale as Leet.io sells for $10,000. This was not an expired auction. Looking at the Whois it looks like Mike Carson's company Humbly, LLC sold the domain name. The domain name redirects to REH.at. The buyer is a street artist who has a background in software engineering. For those unfamiliar with […] The post Leet.io se...