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.

Picking up where he left off in 2024, Mr. Premium, Mark Ghoriafi, has shot out of the 2025 gate with another eye-popping sale - a $600,000 deal that has smoke coming out of our calculator. Mark worked through the holidays to wrap up long negotiations and close his latest high end transaction.

The 2024 domain sales season ended on a high note with a boatload of high end sales posted including the fifth publicly reported million dollar+ sale of the year. It was a good way to ring our the old and boost optimism for the new year ahead.

Two of the most widely-known and successful players in the traditional domain world, Fred Hsu and Paul Stahura, have joined forces in a new company, D3, that hopes to make it possible for ALL domains, including new Web3 TLDs, to work on the current Domain Name System.

There's a reason they call him the Domain King. For the past 30 years Rick Schwartz has been posting one blockbuster sale after another. Hs revealed his latest this morning - the final day of 2024 - when Rick announced the closing of a $1,025,000 sale of BestOdds.com.

The calendar says we are in the middle of the holidays but it looks like a lot of buyers are still on the job! We saw some of the highest publicly reported sales of the year since our last bi-weekly report, including two of the year's three biggest ccTLD sales, thanks to the ongoing .AI boom.

Colin Campbell wrote one of the best business books I've ever read - Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. (the end result of a 10-year journey) and it just won a huge honor with a place on the Kirkus Reviews Top 100 Indie Books list for 2024 and a coveted Kirkus Star.

.ART made a big move by acquiring HUG, a popular social marketplace co-founded by Randi Zuckerberg (whose brother is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerburg) and Debbie Soon. I happened to be in Fort Lauderdale soon after the news came out, so i popped into .ART CMO Jeff Sass's office there to learn more about the deal.

In over 20 years of posting domain sales charts we've never seen one that looked our latest one. While we have seen a single TLD sweep 15 or more entries on a single Top 20 chart, that TLD was always .com - but not this week. Led by an $85,000 sale of Odyssey.ai. .ai domains went on to claim 15 places on our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sa...

The domain industry's 2024 global calendar was stuffed with an extraordinarily rich variety of conferences and events. The success of those many meetings underscored how broad the appeal of this business has become around the world. We just recently got details about an important one that occurred in September, between London's Domain Summit in Aug...

I spent some of the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend catching up on my reading, with InterNetX's 2024 edition of their comprehensive All About Domains series of E-Papers at the top of my list. InterNetX launched the annual project, authored by Global Content & Communications Manager Simone Catania.

A trio of 6-figure sales led by one of the year's 10 biggest publicly reported sales to date led the charge on our latest chart. We also saw one of the three biggest ccTLD sales of the YTD and still more solid .ai sales.

NamesCon Global is on the move and in more ways than one. NamesCon producers announced today that they are moving from Austin, Texas to Miami, Florida for the 2025 conference. In another major development, NamesCon Global announced a new U.S. based management team for an event that will run later in the year than usual - Nov. 5-6, 2025.

The .ART Registry has released of the second annual issue of its .ART Odyssey publication: themed SUCCESS. This edition dives deep into the concept of success, reimagined through the lens of creativity, resilience, and innovation in todays art world. It explores how creativity serves as a catalyst for personal and collective growth and features a d...

It has been a very busy month for Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr. As soon as the 2024 show ended he had to head off to Istanbul for the ICANN meeting. Now that things have finally settled down, Munir shared his thoughts on the groundbreaking event that has given the Middle East and Africa region a well deserved turn in the industry spotlight.

After 10 years of know him, I was starting to believe Mark Ghoriafi could actually fly and after his latest stunt as a Premium Broker with Sedo, I'm sure of it! The thing that confirmed my suspicion that he could defy gravity, happened at the recently concluded 2024 Domain Days Dubai conference. Mark was there to represent Sedo as a featured speake...

Just two years ago, if someone told you the ccTLD for the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla (.AI) would be lighting up domain sales charts like fireworks on New Year's Eve within 24 months, you would have thought they were crazy. Yet here we are. In 2022 not a single .AI domain appeared on our Top 100 Chart for that year. This year isn't it over ye...

With over 3 million residents already in its metropolitan area, Dubai is still one of the world's fastest growing cities. After just two events, the city's first major domain conference, Domain Days Dubai, looks to be on a meteoric growth track too. After a very promising launch last year, DDD staged its second annual event November 5-6, 2024 and e...

The 2024 Domain Days Dubai (DDD) conference closed this evening with a Yacht Cruise that brought the curtain down on the the second annual event. DDD was created to focus on the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region but others from around the world were also immediately attracted to the event to make connections in that rapidly growing market.

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 3rd quarter of 2024. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 362.3 million. That is a slight tick down from 362.4 million at th...

Domain Days Dubai (DDD) made a great first impression when conference founder Munir Badr and his team launched the event in November 2023. So much so that sponsorships and demand for tickets for the second edition of the event, coming up Wednesday and Thursday, November 5 & 6, 2024 at the Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah, exploded. Though seating was ...

It seems like just about every well-known figure in the domain industry has their own blog, podcast or or social media platform. One thing they have all had in common in a singular focus on domains. Duh, right? Well, there is one exception now - all-star broker and Evergreen.com CEO Jen Sale's refreshing new Ten With Jen video podcast series on You...