Domain sightings: Rare instance of a .fish domain! | Mark As Read |
A decade ago, the introduction of new gTLDs opened the floodgates to some really odd extensions, one of which is dot .fish. As part of a balanced diet, fish is great to eat on a regular basis and decided to try this barramundi sea bass from Vietnam. Unlike Drew Rosener, I didn't fly there for […] The post Domain sightings: Rare instance of a ...
Google Now Displays Wallet Balances for Ethereum Name Services (ENS) Domains | Mark As Read |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google has recentlyintegrated native supportfor wallet balances of Ethereum Name Services (ENS) domains in its search results, a move that should simplify the process of sending and receiving funds on the part of cryptocurrency holders by substituting standard and, thus, easier to remember domain names in the place of [&...
.IO is not raising prices | Mark As Read |
Despite a recent announcement by one domain registrar, .io domains prices aren't jumping. Earlier today, domain name registrar Hexonet sent a notice to customers about a .io price increase. The message stated: We have recently been informed about a price change by the registry for .IO domain names (registrations, renewals and transfers). As a resul...
Discover hidden gems with this new expired domain tool | Mark As Read |
This site helps you find recently-expired domains that you can hand register. A new expired domain name site offers an interesting twist on finding expired domains. The free site could be helpful to brandable domain investors looking to add inexpensive domains to their inventory. JustExpired searches through recently dropped domains to find ones th...
Sedo .Ai auction results | Mark As Read |
The Sedo .ai domain name auction wrapped up today. There were no big sales as the greatest names just had reserve ranges much too high for investors. There are currently two auctions still going, Asmr.ai and Czar.ai. ASMR.ai looks like it will be the top sale if paid as it's currently at $5,100. The high […] The post Sedo .Ai auction results ...
Macaron or macaroon? Who cares, Swetha just sold the .XYZ domain name | Mark As Read |
If you're a fan of the French macarons you know not to pronounce them "macaroons." A macaron is a dainty, delicate, and delicious cookie that melts in your mouth. But the word isn't always synonymous to the cookie as it's a great brandable. That's what the buyer of Macaron.xyz had in mind, acquiring the domain […] The post Macaron or macaroon...
ICANN publishes economic analysis about price controls in .org and .info | Mark As Read |
The flawed report doesn't adequately address the lock-in of existing domain registrants. ICANN has published an economic analysis (pdf) about price controls in .org and .info. While it has some good points, the analysis is flawed. The organization undertook the study due to an Independent Review Panel (IRP) decision in a case brought by Namecheap. ...
Auction Recap Of March 27, 2024 | Mark As Read |
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on March 27, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable to see the table of GoDaddy results, because you are viewing via the RSS feed. Dynadot 4202.com Big expiry name for Dynadot. Five-figure income for them. Closes today but only 5K at ...
Unstoppable Domains and Pudgy Penguins Announce Plans to Strategize on the Next gtld for ICANN | Mark As Read |
Will applying for new gtlds in the next round be the play for some Web3 domain name players? It seems like Unstoppable Domains is looking to delve into that realm. They put out a press release today. They launched .pudgy as a branded Web3 domain name, and it looks like they will apply for a […] The post Unstoppable Domains and Pudgy Penguins ...
Squadhelp Adds Escrow.com as a Payment Option | Mark As Read |
Squadhelp has added Escrow.com as a payment option for buyers. The addition of the Escrow.com option was shared by ARIYAS on X this morning: Looks like @SquadHelp added option for buyer to use Escrowcom pic.twitter.com/BU5IUH4SZl ARIYAS (@domainretail) March 28, 2024 I visited some of my Squadhelp listings, and the domain names all had […]
Digital asset management app Arcade.xyz aims to help you manage, stake, and borrow against your NFTs | Mark As Read |
Arcade.xyz – Gandi customer (United States) Blockchain developers are using .xyz domains to harness the latest technologies and develop innovative solutions. Web3 wallet Taho.xyz is geared towards optimized digital asset management solutions. NFT platform Cohort.xyz aims to refresh the way brands engage with customers. Web3 authenticator Dyn...
Resolve.ai sells for $64,490 | Mark As Read |
Richard Kirkendall is back again with a trio of .ai domain name sales. Resolve.ai sold for $64,490 to the list. Hamilton.ai sold for $60,000 and Inspiration.ai sold for $30,000. Greatr price for Hamilton.ai in my opinion. Back on March 25, Richard tweeted out a couple .ai domain name sales including the six figure sale of […] The post Resolve...
Some Thoughts on .AI Domain Names | Mark As Read |
There is no question that .AI domain names have become a hot topic of late. With considerable amounts of venture funding flowing into AI companies and established companies who embrace .AI, the number of .AI domain names being scooped up has grown. Tremendously. The NYTimes, among other mainstream publications, wrote about the windfall .AI domain [...
303 Domain Discoveries for March 28th | Mark As Read |
Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise to the top. Today's list has 303 domains for sale with history. […]
$325k in Sales on March 27th TouristVisa.com sold for $47,000 Daily Market Report | Mark As Read |
The top sale of the day was TouristVisa.com which sold for $47,000 at GoDaddy. NameBio recorded 381 sales $100+ for a total of $302,017 with an average sale price of $793. Compared to the previous day there was a decrease of 3% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount decreased by 1%. We also recorded an additional 1,064 sales below $100 ...
DragonflyHealth.com Sold for $24,888 | Mark As Read |
Today: Appraisal of Americatravel.com / Looking for one word domains–Budget$25,000 / Anthology.ai Sold for $35,000 and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Appraisal of Americatravel.com – What do you think of this domain name? In my opinion how it reads makes it worthless. Looking f...
NVIDIA -- The Company and the Name | Mark As Read |
NVIDIA has received a lot of attention of late. The company stock value has surged about 240% over the past year, and NVIDIA is currently the third largest company in the world in terms of market cap, at about $2.21 trillion. Microsoft and Apple are numbers 1 and 2, with Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta in positions 5, 6 and 7. On March 18, 2024 NVIDIA ...
Handoff to Dan on Imported Leads Can be Confusing | Mark As Read |
I've been using the lead import option at Dan.com more regularly. Although the 5% commission is not ideal, transactions tend to move more quickly on that platform. On deals worth $5,000 or less, I am willing to sacrifice a couple hundred dollars in fees for the sake of expedience. These days when doing outbound on […]
Auction Recap Of March 26, 2024 | Mark As Read |
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on March 26, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable to see the table of GoDaddy results, because you are viewing via the RSS feed.
GoDaddy: Adapt your business to GenAI or die | Mark As Read |
GoDaddy is adamant that small business owners should be using Generative AI (GenAI) by now, or risk perishing in the flames of uncertainty. "We are at the very beginning of the AI revolution […] small businesses are already taking advantage of the technology," said Amy Jennette, senior director of marketing at GoDaddy, adding: "Small business...
Animator Stephen Ong shares his work for SiriusXM and YouTube on MakeItMove.xyz | Mark As Read |
MakeItMove.xyz – Squarespace customer (United Kingdom) The .xyz community is home to many skilled creatives sharing their talents on .xyz domains. Cody Samson shares his VFX work for Beyonc and Coachella on Shmody.xyz. Copywriter MichaelShea.xyz uses his .xyz to showcase work for brands such as Little Caesars and Smirnoff. Multimedia designe...
Domain Name Sale Stats 25th March 2024 | Mark As Read |
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, Register.TO, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for...
Domain Name Sale Stats 24th March 2024 | Mark As Read |
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, Register.TO, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for...
15 end user domain name sales up to $500,000 | Mark As Read |
Snoop Dogg's daughter, an international trading company, and a clothing designer bought domain names. Domain broker Mark Ghoriafi has a lot of hustle and energy, which paid off this month with his biggest sale since joining Sedo: bagels.com. Here's a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view […] Post link: 1...
EmersonTower.com UDRP: Respondent got greedy, apparently | Mark As Read |
The UDRP involving the domain EmersonTower.com involved two Missouri companies; the Complainant being Emerson Electric Co, operating from Emerson.com, and the Respondent being a web consulting company. Despite the Respondent's attempts to justify the domain's registration which is forwarding to their web site, it's interesting to note the following...
431 Domain Discoveries for March 27th | Mark As Read |
Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise to the top. Today's list has 431 domains for sale with history. […]
$331k in Sales on March 26th DragonflyHealth.com sold for $24,888 Daily Market Report | Mark As Read |
The top sale of the day was DragonflyHealth.com which sold for $24,888 at DomainMarket.com. NameBio recorded 394 sales $100+ for a total of $305,555 with an average sale price of $776. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 4% in the number of sales but the total dollar amount decreased by 34%. We also recorded an additional 1,060 sa...
Shanes Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 | Mark As Read |
Had a busy night so I'll leave you with a few photos I took yesterday. We are now living in Leadville CO 3 months a year and we came here for 6 weeks to see a real winter. We don't get them in Illinois anymore. I got it. It has snowed pretty much 4 days a week. Never gets over 40 degrees and is one of the most beautiful places on earth to me....
Photos and Highlights from the Joyous Celebration of Howard Neu's Life Held March 23rd in South Florida | Mark As Read |
Howard Neu didn't want a traditional funeral when he passed last month. Domain industry pioneers helped give him the send off he wanted.
ArtificialIntelligence.com Goes Up for Sale | Mark As Read |
I tried to buy the ArtificialIntelligence.com domain name multiple times over the last 10 years. The emails I sent to the registrant went unanswered, and I didn't make much of an effort to follow up on them since then. This afternoon, I received email responses to my inquiries / offers. The email provided a bit […]
The domain aftermarket has a big problem | Mark As Read |
Domain aftermarkets need to clean up their inventory. Let me start this rant with some good news. This month, I sold a domain name for $6,500 that I found through Domain Academy's Afternic advanced search tool. I bought the domain for less than $100. Now for the bad news: I spent a lot of time […] Post link: The domain aftermarket has a big p...
Auction Recap Of March 25, 2024 | Mark As Read |
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on March 25, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable to see the table of GoDaddy results, because you are viewing via the RSS feed. Dynadot 4202.com Big expiry name for Dynadot. Five-figure income for them At $5,529 with a day left Ta...
Its time to retire the outdated Whois privacy argument in cybersquatting disputes | Mark As Read |
It's 2024. UDRP Complainants must stop making an argument that's no longer true. John Berryhill won another UDRP this week. While there's a lot I could write about his successful defense (pdf) of the domain name transco.com, I want to focus on one of the Complainant's arguments that bothers me. Many complainants argue that the […] Post link: ...
PIRs Diaz to leave domain industry | Mark As Read |
Public Interest Registry is losing its long-serving policy veep Paul Diaz, who will leave the company and domain industry later this year. Currently VP of industry affairs, Diaz has been with the .org registry for 12 years, and had 12 years at Network Solutions before that. A quarter-century in the domain industry should be enough […] The pos...
Some registrars have already quit ICANNs Whois experiment | Mark As Read |
ICANN's two-year experiment in helping connect Whois users with registrars has grown its pool of participating registrars over the last few months, but it has lost a couple of not-insignificant companies along the way. The Registration Data Request Service launched in November, promising to provide a hub for people to request the private data in [&...
Transco.com UDRP: Attorney John Berryhill goes against a trainWho won? | Mark As Read |
Attorney John Berryhill scored another victory, this time against a train company, Transco Railway Products Inc., that filed a UDRP to usurp the domain Transco.com. The decision by a three member panel at the WIPO was unanimous: "The Panel has considered and found unconvincing the Complainants argument that the Respondents use of a privacy service ...
Dynadot February 2024 Aftermarket sales report led by PPLE.com | Mark As Read |
Dynadot released their February 2024 Aftermarket report. The sales data comes in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace. PPLE.com was the top sale at $11,121.19. .Org was prominent in the top 10 expired auction sales, taking 3 of the top 10. 739.tv sold for $2,261.25. Tattoo...
Bagels.com leads Sedos weekly domain name sales | Mark As Read |
Bagels.com sold for $500,000 to lead all sales at Sedo. Soga.com sold for $50,000. Nuda.com brought home $23,000. Playhouse.ai sold for $24,999. Halloween.ai sold for $3,500. Another nice .link sale this week with Blog.link selling for $10,000. Profile.link sold for 40,000 Euro last week. Domain …
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Bagels.com | Mark As Read |
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Bagels.com led the way at $50,000. Soga.com was second at $50,000. Playhouse.ai was the top cctld sale at $24,999. 32 .com sales 33 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM bagels.com 03/18/2024 […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Bagels.com app...
#Sedo : Domain sales report | March 26, 2024 Bagels.com sold for $500,000 dollars | Mark As Read |
Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is that of Bagels.com that sold for $500,000 dollars. Welcome to the latest domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the week ending on March 26, 2024. This information has been provided by Sedo.com, kind sponsors of DomainGang. The Sedo marketplace sells great domains 24/7 providing a […] The post #S...
EU Gives More IP Protection to Food & Drink Producers | Mark As Read |
Did you know that some well-known food and drink varieties are protected intellectual property regulations? Popular types of drinks and foods that are protected by IP laws include Champagne, Kalamata Olives, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, and Prosciutto di Parma. These protections have implications for domain name registrants. According to a press rel...
Complainants Sincere Belief Runs Contrary to Policy But Saves it from RDNH vol. 4.12 | Mark As Read |
Complainants ‘Sincere Belief' Runs Contrary to Policy But Saves it from RDNH The denial of RDNH in this case, is frankly difficult to comprehend. On the facts as presented in the decision, this indeed seems to be amongst the very clearest of RDNH cases. First, the Respondent had an overt and clearly legitimate interest in the Domain Name̷...
Mononames: A weekly list of available dictionary domains in select TLDs | Mark As Read |
The allure of dictionary word domains fuels a large part of the industry. While .com is king, there are many other TLDs that a dictionary domain would be great to own in. Enter Mononames, a list of reportedly 400,000 brandable, one-word domain names in 25 TLDs. Its provider charges 39.99 Euro for access to the […] The post Mononames: A weekly...
716 Domain Discoveries for March 26th | Mark As Read |
Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise to the top. Today's list has 716 domains for sale with history. […]
$490k in Sales on March 25th Golf.ai sold for $140,000 Daily Market Report | Mark As Read |
The top sale of the day was Golf.ai which sold for $140,000 at Namecheap. NameBio recorded 379 sales $100+ for a total of $465,596 with an average sale price of $1,228. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 12% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount increased by 94%. We also recorded an additional 1,069 sales below $100 ...
IKES LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, March 26th | Mark As Read |
Click the links for current prices, most links are commissionable and fund the operation. Domain of the Day: EFB.ai An Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is a tablet or device used by pilots and flight crews. The EFB market is growing rapidly, using apps like ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot, and WingX. Dynadot All Dynadot links are commissionable Backlink.pw...
My Crazy Domains issue has been resolved (with a twist) | Mark As Read |
It turns out the domain hadn't expired and shouldn't have been auctioned at SnapNames. Last week, I wrote about an issue I was having with Crazy Domains. After trying and failing to resolve the issue with Crazy Domains' support over several weeks, I didn't know what else to do other than write about it. And […] Post link: My Crazy Domains iss...
ICANN opens $217 million Grant Program | Mark As Read |
Ten million bucks of ICANN's money is up for grabs, starting today. The Org has opened the application window for the first stage of its Grant Program, which it hopes to eventually see hand out over the $217 million that it raised auctioning off contested gTLDs during the 2012 new gTLD program application round. In […] The post ICANN opens $2...
BritishAirways.ai UDRP: Cybersquatting at its finest | Mark As Read |
The Turkish registrant of BritishAirways.ai wanted $999 dollars for the domain but no brand owner should accept to pay any ransom; British Airways is a global brand and an airline with 100+ years of history. Filing a UDRP was the obvious solution and the Respondent failed to respond. A company such as British Airways has […] The post BritishA...
Researcher Lennart Heim explores the complexities of AI governance on Heim.xyz | Mark As Read |
Heim.xyz – INWX customer – (Switzerland) Industry leaders, skilled creatives, and tech-focused organizations are utilizing .xyz and more XYZ Registry domains like .Security and .CEO to explore AIs potential. Artist and designer Makeitrad.xyz uses his .xyz to showcase AI-driven art. Media and technology mogul MikeJohns.CEO blends AI and ...
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