Summer used to be a slow time in the domain aftermarket but this year an inferno of high end sales have been lighting up our charts in a way we seldom see in a season usually thought of as time to take a vacation. Instead buyers and sellers have stayed busy closing one impressive sale after another. The latest headliners are a quartet of six-figure...

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has opened early bird ticket sales for their 2026 Annual Las Vegas Meeting to all members (and any industry participant who wants to join now). Here is how being an ICA member can help both you and the industry continue to grow and prosper.

ICANN will be launching a second round of new gTLDs) next year and once again millions of dollars will be spent by entrepreneurs who dream of running their own TLD. However, there is ANOTHER WAY to run an entire extension - the same way operators of re-purposed ccTLDs like .ai, .io. .co and .tv did it. The latest to take that path are the new stew...

Sedo Premium Outbound Broker Mark Ghoriafi has just wrapped up yet another trip to the domain sales mountain top. Mark started the year with a $600,000 sale of Pack.com in January, followed it up with a $980,000 sale of Double.com and just struck gold again by selling Dollars.com at $500,000. As a result he now has three of the top ten publicly re...

After establishing itself as one of the world's premier domain conferences with outstanding events in 2023 and 2024, the Domain Days Dubai conference is returning for round 3 October 22-23, 2025 in the magnificent UAE metropolis. The show will again be held at the picturesque Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah where industry leaders from around the worl...

Team Internet Group (TIG) announced that Colombia has given Consrcio Equipo PuntoCo - a partnership between TIG and Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI) - a 10-year license to operate the .co top level domain. The contract opportunity became available when Colombia's previous pact with GoDaddy expired.

The traditionally dominant .coms have had to share the sales spotlight with surging .ai domains over the past year but this time around the bi-weekly track, the .coms left just about everything else in their dust. Their haul included nine of the top ten with the only exception being a solo .ai sale. Is this possibly a sign that the .ai boom is wani...

Brandon Abbey has been a familiar figure to domain industry veterans since 2004 when he became the President at Escrow.com. Over the next 12 years, Brandon played a central role in helping close over two billion dollars worth of domain sales there. Brandon has now joined an innovative company that is shaking up the payments world with an end to end...

ICANN is preparing to open the door to another round of new gTLDs next year and a lot of people are getting ready to make a run at acquiring and administering a new top level domain of their own. The process of launching new TLDs now has a fairly long history after hundreds hit the Internet over a decade ago. A good thing about that is you can bett...

NamesCon Global is going all in on networking for their next conference. Plans include a Wynwood Buggies Tour of Miami's famous grafitti-art district. and the Namescon Welcome Party at The Deck. They'll also hold the first-ever Namescon Pickleball Tournament and host a live concert at Wynwood Walls - and that is just scratching the surface.

Over the past two weeks, two of the year's five biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date were posted with both ringing the 7-figure bell with a combined total of more than $3 million. The hits just kept on coming with a pair of 6-figure sales posted as well. Both of those came out of the current frenzy surrounding AI related domains.

Anticipation continues to build for the NamesCon Global conference's move to Miami that is now just a few months away. The domain industry's big event will be held in Florida for the first time November 5-6, 2025 at the Ice Palace special events venue in downtown Miami. The two-day business agenda is also taking shape with the Main Stage schedule ...

Two of the most successful guys to ever do it teamed up to complete a 7-figure sale of Fuse.com. Andrew Miller at Hilco Digital had the exclusive listing of this gem from Braden Pollock's world class portfolio and once again made the magic happen. This is the 3rd highest publicly reported sale of the year to date.

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit stewards of the .ORG domain has issued a call for nominations for their 7th annual .ORG Impact Awards. The awards program was created to recognize outstanding mission-driven individuals and organizations from the global .ORG Community for their positive contributions to society. The winners from seven c...

ICANN will be launching another massive wave of new gTLDs next year and a lot of people will join the race to run their own top level domains. Thanks to a new book that has just been released by industry experts Joe Alagna and Andrey Insarov, you can now learn what has to be done if you want a shot at owning an entire TLD.

Buyers have always placed a premium on short domains. Their popularity is evident on our last bi-weekly Top 20 Sales Chart with 11 entries weighing in at 5 letters or less. The other continuing trend was the dominance of .com and .ai. .ai took three of the top four spots and the first 12 were all either .com or .ai domains.

For the past nine years, Escrow.com has been shining a light on many of the top domain brokers in the industry through their annual Master of Domains Awards program. The honors go to the top ten brokers, based on total dollar value of transactions closed on the Escrow.com platform. When the 2025 winners were announced today, MediaOptions.com CEO An...

The Internet Commerce Association), the non-profit organization that fights to protect domain registrant's rights, has announced some major changes for their next Annual Member's Meeting in Las Vegas. Those include a new venue for the 2026 event and the addition of a third day to the rapidly growing conference's schedule.

A few weeks ago the annual 2025 Global Domain Report from InterNetX and Sedo was released. Now, the two industry leaders are taking this outstanding resource up another level with a free webinar that will feature two of the key experts behind the report. You can register now for the Thursday, May 8 live event.

Summer is still a couple of months away but things are already red hot in the domain aftermarket. Since our last bi-weekly update one of the biggest sales of all time was recorded. That one gave our YTD Top 100 Sales Chart a new leader and a horde of 13 other newcomers came along for the ride.

The 2025 Nordic Domain Days conference concluded its three-day run this evening in Stockholm, Sweden. This was the 10th anniversary edition of the popular event that LG Forsberg created back in 2015 to focus on the domain industry in the Nordic geographical and cultural region that encompasses Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

I just had a chance to look through a recently released GoDaddy Consumer Pulse Survey that provided some interesting insight into what customers of the world's biggest registrar look for when they start searching for a name. It can be a daunting process when you consider the endless options.

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the the 1st quarter of 2025. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 368.4 million. That is up 6.1 million registrations year over ...

In a post on LinkedIn today Icon CEO Kennan Davison revealed that his company paid $12 million dollars to acquire the exact match domain for their artificial intelligence based startup. The sale was made by Andrew Miller (ATM Holdings and Managing Director for Hilco Digital Assets) with Lumis.com representing the buyer.

19 solid domain sales blossomed and took places on our Year to Date Top Sales Chart - an extraordinarily high number for a single reporting period. The most beautiful rose in that sales garden was a $699,999 eye-catcher, That sale is one of the five biggest publicly reported sales so far in 2025.

As you would expect, the .ART domain registry goes all in on World Art Day, as do many registrars who are running sales on .ART domains today (that makes this a good time for artists and creatives to get their .ART identity). The registry itself used the occasion to announce the recipients of the 2024 and 2025Kasimov Art Therapy Fellowship - an awa...

Several companies are making legacy Web2 domain names work together with blockchain-based Web3 domains with each taking their own approach to getting the job done. WebUnited's strategy is partnering with registrars to offer customers Web3 services as an add-on when they register Web2 domains. GlobalR.com is the latest registrar to sign on, doing so...

A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. It about one of the nicest guys - and most successful investor/brokers in domain industry history - Larry Fischer. The mild-mannered Brooklyn native reminds us a lot of Clark Kent. Easy going but when there is a major sale to close he turns into Superman!

DNJ's latest chart gives everyone something to celebrate. A $500,000+ .com led the pack, .ai took two more places among the five biggest ccTLD sales of the year to date and the non. com gTLDs posted the biggest sale in that category thus far in 2025.

March wasn't the only thing that came in like a lion this year. Sedo went on a rampage, devouring the top two spots on DNJournal's latest chart with a million dollar sale and another just a hair under the 7-figure mark. They also chalked up two other six-figure sales to claim four of the first seven spots on the elite list.

InterNetX and Sedo have jointly releasing their 2025 Global Domain Report. The latest edition presents a treasure trove of data and information in a beautifully designed format that makes every one of the 80 pages a sensory delight and a breeze to digest.

The world of domain name registrars is a crowded and competitive one. Over 2,400 ICANN-accredited registrars currently exist, so if you are going to launch a new one, you had better find a way to stand out in that enormous throng. Fortunately, if you wanted a blueprint to guide you, the GMO Internet Group just provided it when they announced the la...

When you're hot, you're hot - and Sedo is off to a blazing start this week! Yesterday we told you about the $980,000 sale of Double.com. Today, the sun had barely come up before Sedo announced on X.com that they have sold a 2-letter .com at a Buy It Now price of $1.2 million!

Sedo Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi, AKA "Mr. Premium", has gotten the new year off to a red hot start. Mark has just closed his latest eye-popping deal, a $980,000 sale that, coupled with his $600,000 sale of Pack.com in January, gives him two of the four biggest publicly reported domain sales year to date.

Radix has released their latest semi-annual report on the registry operator's premium domain registrations and renewals across the 10 TLDs they administer. .Fun had an amazing 4th quarter to break out of the Radix pack and win their premium registration race by a wide margin, proving it's not just girls who wanna have fun!

A domain with an infamous past, Backpage.com, was allowed to expire a couple of weeks ago but that wasn't the end of the story. DropCatch.com, as they so often do, won the scrum for the domain and went on to auction it off and collect $259,500 from the winning bidder. That made it the highest sale we saw since our last bi-weekly report and one of ...

The new mirroring option allows any traditonal DNS domain name, regardless of extension, to be seamlessly mirrored onto the blockchain through WebUnited's technology. This innovation makes it possible for registrars like Domain Cost Club (DCC) to offer customers Web3 capabilities without altering the existing Web2 domain functionality.

Larry Fischer is one of the small handful of super brokers that the greatest domain names tend to go to. So, no surprise AI.com would end up with him, but the eye-popping potential of this domain leaves a BIG question in everyone's mind - just how high can it go? The highest publicly reported sale on record came in at $30 million. Larry has no doub...

The calendar says its winter but the domain aftermarket is producing enough heat to make it feel like the middle of summer. The year's first publicly reported 7-figure sale - Commerce.com at $2.2 million has just been put on the board, along with a trio of impressive 6-figure sales.

With this post, the first publicly reported 7-figure domain sale of the new year is now on the record. Industry pioneers Larry Fischer and Ari Goldberger teamed up to close a $2.2 million sale that set a new high water mark for 2025. It is no surprise the dynamic duo were the ones to do it as they have been closing high altitude deals for more tha...

When our current bi-weekly domain sales report was published], a lot of readers did a double take. At #1 of our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart sat Fanbase.com at $431,400. No surprise there, but what was up with the "Where Sold" entry that showed Fruits.co?.That was puzzling on the American side of the Atlantic, but no so much in Europe where Fru...

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 4th quarter of 2024. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter up slightly from the year before but results varied from one category...

The first month of the 2025 domain sales season is now in the books and if the next 11 are like this, there will be a lot of happy campers in the aftermarket. Over the past couple of weeks, five more six-figure sales have been publicly reported. We also saw another big wave of .AI sales with nine of those flooding our latest all extension Top 20 Sa...

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), the non-profit organization that fights to protect domain registrant's rights, welcomed their biggest crowd to date at their 2025 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas January 26-28. This year's scene was one that few could have envisioned less than four years ago when the ICA made their first visit to Las Vegas.

Even though domain names are absolutely essential to the functioning of the Internet itself and are extraordinarily valuable brands for businesses all over the world - few books have been written about the business - especially the digital asset investing side of it. As a result, many have little understanding of what it is all about. David Clement...

Experts have differing opinions on how long the current .AI boom will go on. Some think the TLD will eventually wither when successful companies decide to upgrade to .com. Time will tell but in the near term the prospects for both look golden.

Welcome to our 21st Annual State of the Industry Cover Story with experts from all corners of the industry commenting on what they saw as the highs and lows of the past year, as well as what they are expecting to see in the year ahead.

2024 was a big year for ParkLogic.com Founder & CEO Michael Gilmour - the biggest in the 18 years since he and partner David Gibbs established the company back in 2007. ParkLogic has been been in an all out expansion sprint since early last year when David retired and sold his share of the business to Michael, making him the sole owner.