We have three months of NameJet/SnapNames sales data today. VVA.com was the highest sale at $35,999 June: July: August: SnapNames August 2024 Domain Name Brand Name Product Sales Amt 899bet.com Snapnames Expiry $16,000 indiandefencereview.com Snapnames Expiry $14,000 bioe.com Snapnames Expiry $9,500 whoateallthepies.tv Snapnames Expiry $9,250 p...

Shane Cultra is very well known in the domain industry, Shane recently joined D3 working in Business Development and Partnerships. I wanted to get some insight into D3 and why Shane decided to join their team. I hope you enjoy the interview. 1)You recently joined D3 and as I understand you will be involved with […] The post An interview with ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Fan.io led the way at $50,000. Med.io right behind at 33,864 Euro, ($37,391). Oys.com was the top .com at $35,000. 29 .com sales 17 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM oys.com […] The post Sedo weekly sales led by Fan.io appeared first on TheDomains.com.

Namepros continues to listen to community feedback and add the features members are demanding. The launch of their own landers has been very well received. Custom descriptions has been requested since the beginning. Now they are here. Introducing custom descriptions on NamePros Landers: Both descriptions support a variety of features to help custo...

InterNetX announced their AutoDNS will now integrate with Sedo. The company made a post on LinkedIn detailing the new features. This advancement in AutoDNS is designed with you in mind, offering unprecedented simplicity and efficiency in domain management. Through this integration, we aim to empower you with: Simplifying your domain experience We ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and AiTalent.com led the way at $29,888. LasVegasHotels.org sold for $7,999. Hockey.co and Baseball.co sold this week, for 5,000 and $4,900. Three 4L.com sales this week with what most would call an ugly one, CFVI.com at $15,000. 46 .com sales 22 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domain […] The post Se...

Minds + Machines acquired MMX.co back in 2015 for $2,200 at Sedo. The company sold its internet top-level domain assets to GoDaddy for a total consideration of US$120mln in cash back in 2020. The domain name expired and closed at $8,400 at GoDaddy auctions. According to Ahrefs the domain name has a Domain Rating of […] The post MMX.co former ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Crypto.co.uk led the way at 100,000 GBP, ($130,441) to be fair when it was announced it was roughly $127,500 on conversion. MyNames.com was the top .com sale at 15,000 Euro, ($16,672). 27 .com sales 15 cctld sales No other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency […] The post Sedo weekly doma...

The Deal or No Deal finale is now open at DNWE.com you have a chance to win a domain names, sell it, swap it for the mystery domain. If you are randomly selected as the winner the choice is yours. Ryan Ewen did a good job with this one and it's nice to see a […] The post DNWE Scavenger Hunt – DEAL or no DEAL now open appeared first on T...

Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and UpSign.com led the way at 55,000 Euro, ($60,278). Sorteos.com was second at 50,000 Euro, ($54,805). Arcs.com sold for $30,000. iPL.net sold for $27,000. Baddie.com sold for $21,000. 34 .com sales 20 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency […] The post Sedo weekly doma...

Friend.com was in the news at the end of July. Avi Schiffmann posted on X that the company purchased Friend.com for $1.88M on a payment plan. Some thought it was crazy to spend that much and voiced their outrage on X. TechCrunch published an article on the purchase and went deeper into branding and domain […] The post TechCrunch: "Maybe Frien...

When talking about how to stop game playing at auctions, someone suggested to me that it would be great if you could make bidders have money in the account and freeze a percentage. Well it turns out GNAME does do that. When you look at their auction terms they note, 1. A 20% deposit of […] The post GNAME has some auction features that other p...

In what can only be described as a clown show of an X thread, one participant stood out as a shining example of why you do not take unsolicited legal advice. You can read the whole thing on X. TL;DR Startup named Camel (not a great brand imo because the tobacco company is so well […] The post Advising someone to basically go the RDNH route pr...

(Image Credit Giuseppe Graziano) Giuseppe Graziano who publishes the Liquid Market Report but out a very detailed post on the business of domain investing. He added in commentary from legends in the business along with ChatGPT. The article touches upon some comments that are a few years old but still relevant. Nat Cohen remarked during […] Th...

Google has lost a major antitrust case that centered around search. They of course will appeal this decision but it's certainly an eye opener to see just how much they paid Apple to be the default search on all their platforms. In a time where publishers have watched their adsense revenue shrink, there was plenty […] The post Google loses ant...

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported Q2 2024 earnings. Revenue was up 7% year over year. Yahoo reported that second-quarter 2024 adjusted earnings of $1.10 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.8% and jumped 74.6% year over year. GDDY generated revenues of $1.12 billion, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.97% Second Quarter 2024 B...

404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, according to its founder Avi Schiffmann and a screenshot of the transaction shared with […] Th...

Could the SEO value of cctld's being going away? SearchEngineJournal.com published an article this morning that talks about just that. In a recent episode of Googles Search Off The Record podcast, the companys Search Relations team hinted at potential changes in how country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are valued for SEO. Creative Use Of ccTLDs ...

Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain name registrations increased by 5.8 million, or 1.6%, year over year. From the report: The .com and ...

On X formerly Twitter, I had been following a lot of discussion on outbound sales. Some people I follow were detailing just how much time they spent on outbound. I came across someone mentioning DomainsOutbound.com. The person running the service is a gentleman named AJ Chadha. I spoke to AJ on the phone to get […] The post Interview with AJ ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FG.org led the way at $95,000. Travelful.net was second at 75,000 Euro, ($81,581) That's an incredible price imo. It will also make everyone think their average .net is worth a fortune. It redirects to Seshgroups.com. 14 .com sales 18 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Domain name […] The post Sedo ...

I was speaking to someone over the weekend who was incessantly stressing the importance of Trustpilot reviews. They had asked me about registrars and who had the best Trustpilot score? I replied that I did not know, but I will look into it for them. So I decided to take a look at the most […] The post A look at how some of the most popular re...

.Art announced a partnership with HUG an art community founded by Randi Zuckerberg and Debbie Soon. From a domain standpoint the partnership will result in community members getting their first year free on a standard .art and 50% off a premium domain name. WASHINGTON, USA, July 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — .ART Registry, operator of the [&#...

Giuseppe Graziano released the Liquid Market Report for Q2 2024. Sales at Escrow.com were stronger than the publicly disclosed sales according to the report. The star of Q2 2024 was GoDaddy shares up 17.72 for Q2 2024. – Q2 was another solid quarter with almost $20M in liquid domain sales as reported by Escrow.com (+9.86%) […] The post ...

No matter what extension you are you want to be carried by GoDaddy. A press release went out today announcing that GoDaddy will offer IT.com domain names. Full press release: LONDON, July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A provider of innovative domains for the technology industry, it.com Domains, has announced a new partnership with GoDaddy  ...

I would say it's a bit late but .me released their premium domain name report for 2023. With extensions like .ai and .io stealing the cctld show, .me has not been in the news a lot. Total revenue 317,500 EUR. [*excluding the registrars margin which is usually from 15%  to 25%].  Notable companies that […] The post .Me releases thei...

First day of July expired .ai auctions at Dynadot/Whois.ai had four 5 figure closes. Banking.ai led the way at $53,055 Domain Price Date Venue banking.ai 53,055 USD 2024-07-08 Dynadot estate.ai 31,501 USD 2024-07-08 Dynadot fc.ai 18,888 USD 2024-07-08 Dynadot pendo.ai 10,001 USD 2024-07-08 Dynadot basecamp.ai 9,001 USD 2024-07-08 Dynadot thinking.a...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and TextFree.com led all sales at $81,102. Versichert.de was the top cctld at 25,000 Euro, ($26,828) and Blitz.bet was the top other tld sale at $7,899. 21 .com sales 24 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Last week I wrote about .si this week there was one .si […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales ...

Michael and David Castello have one of the best domain name portfolios in the history of domaining. They also have developed a lot of their top properties. Daycare.com has just been revamped, a new business model and platform. Now you might not need Daycare services but you probably know someone who would like to see […] The post The Castello...

The American Economic Liberties Project sent out letters to the NTIA and the DOJ wanting them to step in an end Verisign's monopoly over .com. They put out a press release which you can read below. I am sure Verisign will have a very staunch reply as to why they are keeping the contract. Somewhere […] The post Group wants to see an end to Ver...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and ipl.com led the way at $265,000. MyFy.com was second at $75,000. Numbers.io was the top cctld at 12,500 Euro, ($13,364). I thought lusty.com for 11,000 Euro, ($11,763) was a nice price for the buyer. 36 .com sales 26 cctld sales 2 other tld sales Domain name Date […] The post Sedo weekly domain...

It looks like over the weekend Namepros member Lox got a few excited about the next country code that could get repurposed. I am talking about the country code of Slovenia, .si. Lox pointed out that Microsoft looks to have acquired Copilot.si. The domain name has been registered since 2016. Microsoft also registered CopilotSi.com this […] The...

Sedo tweeted out let the games begin as it's time for a new Great Domains auction. Some top quality names like Greece.com, Smoothie.com and Gemma.com. Smoothie.com is a Castello Brothers domain. The auction runs til the 6/27 Let the #games begin Now the time has come to bid, bid, bid. Our #GreatDomainsAuction has started […] The post Sedo's ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and WealthEstate.com led the way at $19,875. StoryCamp.com was second at $18,000. The top other tld sale Mia.xyz was made by none other that Michael Berkens, the deal got stuck and then I helped work with the buyer and Mike and the deal got done, it's an Argentinian […] The post Sedo weekly domain ...

DNWE.com will be making changes under new ownership. The company surveyed current members and asked them 10 questions. Here are a couple of the questions: Flea Market $99Curated Domains $99Dutch Auction $29Standard Auction $69 Starting Price With all the changes fees will be going up to 15% from 12%. Full report at DNWE The post Changes are coming ...

NameJet/SnapNames reported May 2024 domain sales and Cranio.com was the top sale at $12,211. Jac.org was the top sale at Namejet. NameJet Domain Brand Type Sales Amt jac.org Namejet Expiry $9,188 gpai.com Namejet Expiry $6,666 larita.com Namejet Expiry $3,589 morganheritagemusic.com Namejet Expiry $2,700 shelta.com Namejet Expiry $2,700 dogbow...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FitFast.com was the top sale at $28,333. The top cctld was businessplan.de at 21,420 Euro, ($22,976) The top other tld sale was Backpackgeartest.org at $7,000. 24 .com sales 22 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales le...

Wild story on Reuters today as it appears there is a Vape company called Chill that smartly operates on Chill.com. Well it seems Chief Commercial Officer Antonio Russo and Chief Operating Officer Trevor Taylor transferred the name to an account owned by Russo. From the article: Tip of the cap to Namepros member Silentg The post Someone at Chill kno...

Escrow.com announced their Master of Domains 2024 winners and no surprise Andrew Rosener topped the list once again. Andrew really is a machine. Andrew Miller the Managing Director of Hilco Digital Assets came in second and Jeffrey Gabriel Co-Founder of Saw.com came in third. Press Release: AUSTIN, Texas – 6 June 2024 – Escrow.com, the ...

Simone Catania from InterNetX published an article on DotMagazine.online about country code domain names. The focus of the article was the European market. Simone writes, Undeterred by the numerous alternate naming options, Europe relies strongly on ccTLDs with roughly 54.2% median market. The popularity of ccTLDs within this region is linked to ma...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and RKX.com led the way at $100,000. Buran.com was second at $80,000. Bring.de the top cctld sale was third at 55,000 Euro, ($59,881). 30 .com sales 16 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by RKX.com appeared firs...

IT.com has added Porkbun to their growing list of registrars offering .it.com domain names. Press release: A provider of innovative domains for the technology industry, it.com Domains, announced a partnership with Porkbun, one of the largest and fastest-growing domain registrars globally. This collaboration will serve the worldwide IT community by ...

Weeks ago Google came out and addressed the topic of expired domain names. On their blog "TheKeyword" they wrote: Expired domain abuse Occasionally, expired domains are purchased and repurposed with the primary intention of boosting search ranking of low-quality or unoriginal content. This can mislead users into thinking the new content is part of ...