December 2021 Keyword Trends December saw Meta stay strong with 43 sales in December. The had a strong month while Pay had a lackluster month. Coin and Crypto once again had solid results. Meta, The and Coin had five figure sales. Popular Keywords There are certain keywords that are the most sought after in domain […] The post December 2021 K...

Following up on their end of 2020 win, Dynadot won both best or favorite registrar awards at Namepros for 2021. Strong showing from Namecheap and what can only be considered a disappointment for GoDaddy. They won the first of these awards years back with 52% of the vote. Repeated in 2017. Now they come in […] The post Dynadot wins Best/Favori...

Swetha posted 4 .xyz sales today. the highest being TipTop.xyz at $15,000. Cheq.xyz is already pointing to the buyer's site. Cheq is a new web3 payments startup founded by Chris Butcher. It is already funded by top investors. A public announcement will follow in Q1 2022. In the meantime, Cheq is hiring for its founding […] The post Swetha rin...

DAO.co sold for $45,000 at Sedo on Wednesday. The domain name previously sold in 2018 for $5,000 and that was a nice R.O.I. from the 2013 acquisition price of just $155 at GoDaddy auctions. Back in 2013 there was little talk if any about decentralized autonomous organizations. No doubt this was the reason for the […] The post DAO.co sells for...

Dildo.com sold for $65,000 at Sedo. Registered way back in 1995 and parked at Sedo. According to Statista.com the sex toy industry is a $28 billion dollar industry. This number is expected to grow to $52 billion by 2026. With those kinds of numbers $65,000 might be a bargain down the road. $52 billion is […] The post Dildo.com sells for $65,0...

LeaseDomains.com registered back in 1998, looks to have expired and closed at $80,000 at GoDaddy auctions. Back in 2007 it was a reseller through Wild West Domains. It was then Domains Priced Right up until around 2019. Over the last couple years it was parked at Sav.com. If it does not get renewed it will […] The post LeaseDomains.com closes...

There are two 2021 best registrar polls winding down at Namepros. WIth a week to go Dynadot has a pretty much insurmountable lead. After giving 3 choices for best registrar, some wanted to see how things would play out if you had to only choose one. In both cases Dynadot has run away with the […] The post With one week left Dynadot looks to s...

There has been a good deal of discussion around .xyz sales as being unique to Swetha. (Of course others have made sales) In a post on Namepros, Lox detailed how he conducted a test with .xyz and the results were pretty good, though it's fair to point out this was a small test, no one […] The post It's not just Swetha selling .xyz domain names...

TheKingdom.com sold for the fourth time in 13 years today. This time was the high mark, $39,000. It first sold back in 2008 at NameJet for $2,322. It then sold at Afternic in 2013 for $11,610. It was left to expire and it was purchased at GoDaddy auctions in 2016 for $3,850. The domain was […] The post TheKingdom.com sells for the fourth time...

Swetha put up a handful of .xyz domain name sales today. Cameo and Ante each sold for $19,888. Fantastic prices in my opinion. I mean you look at Ante.net and Ante.co sold for less than $1,000, now this was wholesale to be fair. Ante.org sold for $280 and the .ai and .gg versions went for […] The post Cameo.xyz and Ante.xyz lead a quintet of ...

One of the bigger stories over the past month was Jack Dorsey, changing the name of Square to Block. Reuters published In a complaint filed in Kansas City, Missouri, federal court, however, H&R Block accused the company of "stealing Block's name in order to co-opt the reputation and goodwill that Block has earned through decades […] The p...

When you see a domain name listed on a marketplace for an attractive or in many cases unbelievably good price, do some research. Over the past month I have spoken to a few people and read stories on Namepros where people are coming across names that have not been available. In some cases people should […] The post Be careful when buying a dom...

Cartoons.org sold today for less than half of what it sold for a decade ago. The domain name sold at Sedo for $4,977. It sold at Sedo in 2011 for $10,000. The domain name was registered in 2001. Cartoons is registered in 105 extensions according to DotDB.com. It did get developed back in 2012 it […] The post Cartoons.org sells for half of wha...

GoDaddy will be taking over for Verisign in managing the .tv registry. The Ministry of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs, Tuvalu Government posted on Facebook: The Ministry is excited to announce that the Government of Tuvalu has selected GoDaddy Registry as the new registry service provider for Tuvalu's .tv Country Code Top-Level Domain! ...

Swetha posted a trio of .xyz sales on Monday. It looks like she is now having Namebio post those sales under Swetha.xyz instead of DNGear.com. I don't know if Michael can make one easy change in the database and show all her sales under Swetha.xyz. Swetha.xyz points to her DAN.com page. The top sale was […] The post Swetha posts 3 .xyz sales ...

The number of reported new gtld sales in 2021 will more than double 2020, it will actually be the highest number of sales in a year ever. However for the first time the average price per sale is below the $2K mark. More companies, especially those in the Web 3 arena, (Crypto, blockchain, NFT, Defi, […] The post 2021 will have the highest numb...

Trainer.com was one of 4 six figure closes on Thursday, all of these names coming from the Thought Convergence portfolio. Threat.com was sold once before, back in 2011 for $8,500. trainer.com 290,000 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet aftermarket.com 280,001 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet aka.com 248,400 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet threat.com 186,000 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet...

Sedo published their most searched keywords for November. No surprise that NFT, Meta and Crypto made the top 5. As someone who owns some decent Poker and CBD names it was nice to see them make the list. When we look back at the last time they published this data, September, we see NFT and […] The post NFT, Meta and Cannabis most searched keyw...

.Art domain names became available to the public in 2017. There have not been many reported sales on Namebio. 2021 has shown an uptick in sales, actually almost all the reported sales have occurred in 2021. At the end of November a flurry came in, selling at GoDaddy, Sav.com, Get.Art (premium name site for the […] The post With the buzz aroun...

Sav.com and Docky.Ly are continuing to get some great wholesale pricing for expired and dropped .xyz names. Over the past month we are seeing names go for $2,500 routinely. Cafe.xyz became the second name to hit the $7,450 mark, the highest price we have witnessed from these two sites. cafe.xyz 7,450 USD 2021-12-04 Sav.com living.xyz […] The ...

It was a .xyz duel today between Nikul from Hypernames.co and Swetha from DNGear.com. Nikul took the top spot with Nomad.xyz at $49,000. Collective.xyz was right behind at $37,000. nomad.xyz 49,000 USD 2021-12-03 hypernames.co collective.xyz 37,000 USD 2021-12-03 DNGear.com dragonfly.xyz 19,888 USD 2021-12-03 DNGear.com stratos.xyz 9,888 USD 2021-1...

New Gtld domain name sales for November Looking back at November there were 348 reported new gtld domain name sales at Namebio. This is compared to 262 in October. Sales totaled $677,373 vs $430,576 in October. November was dominated by Swetha and ETH. There were 11 five figure sales. Swetha had 6 of them. Three […] The post November 2021 rep...

November Keyword Trends November picked up where October left off for Meta. 47 sales in November up from 38 in October. Cloud had a strong month while Shop dipped a bit. Coin and Crypto also had solid results. Meta, Crypto, Labs and Cloud had five figure sales. Popular Keywords There are certain keywords that are […] The post November Keyword...

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Philip Rosedale founded Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life. He was interviewed by Axios about the metaverse, Facebook and the future for virtual worlds. Of the metaverse, he says: I think what we've learned and somewhat with some sadness, given the work that I've done, I would have to agree […] The post One Virtual ...

Roger Montti published a piece over at SearchEngineJournal.com with regards to a Google bug that leaves websites in a state of limbo. It's funny because someone on Thanksgiving was telling me they could not get their website to rank, even for their own domain name. In a Google Office-hours hangout, John Mueller answered a question […] The pos...

Swetha registered 4 .xyz sales on Black Friday. These were not of the $20,000 plus variety but great prices for the keyword and .xyz in my opinion. caliente.xyz 4,995 USD 2021-11-26 DNGear.com hyperspace.xyz 4,995 USD 2021-11-26 DNGear.com geode.xyz 2,995 USD 2021-11-26 DNGear.com supercool.xyz 2,995 USD 2021-11-26 DNGear.com The other thing I thou...

I have written about Matthew Ball before when discussing the metaverse. He was quoted in an article recently where he stated, believes that the metaverse economy could value between $10-30 trillion in the next decade. From BeInCrypto.com: Ball, who launched a metaverse ETF with Roundhill investments in June of this year, made the prediction in [...

Q1) It was July of 2020 when I first interviewed you, back then you said you had 13000 domains, Among them 90% are .xyz. Can you tell us what that number is today? Swetha) I have around 19K .xyz domains and I have been renewing all except a few 100. Q2) You have certainly had […] The post A quick chat with the Queen of .xyz on her 2021 sales,...

It's no surprise for those who have been involved with .tv that Tuvalu wants more money. The contract with Verisign is up at the end of this year and Tuvalu is putting the contract up for bid. Kieren McCarthy over at TheRegister.com delves into some interesting clauses around the rebid. Kieren reviews the controversial terms […] The post Who ...

Dynadot released their October sales data in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, Use auctions and Marketplace. The top sale was Eth.green at $45,000. In other Eth news. eth.digital was sold for $14,199 in an exclusive platinum auction we ran with our partners at Donuts. TOP SALES – EXPIRED AUCTI...

A few weeks ago I saw a blurb about Hashport on CoinTelegraph.com. The domain name featured in the story was Hashport.network, registered in June of this year. What Hashport does: Interoperability between decentralized networks is set to become a whole lot easier with the introduction of hashport. Launching November 9, 2021, hashport strikes a crit...

Over the past couple of months we have seen a lot of recently registered meta names sell. Today an aged one sold. MetaTime.com sold for $40,000 at Sedo. It was registered back in 1996, it had a few owners, and was recently parked at Brandpa and then Sedo. The seller looks to be from India. […] The post Regged in 1996 MetaTime.com sells for $4...

Three days ago I wrote about Park.io and their sales so far this year. Mike Carson the founder of Park.io said a record breaker was coming in the comments. He sold Mint.io for $230,000. Registered in 2015 the name looked to have been owned by Elastic Media Ltd. It then went under privacy showing registrant […] The post Mint.io was the record ...

A couple days ago I took a look how Park.io was doing in 2021 vs 2020. Mike Carson left a comment he has a record breaker coming. Today he put up a nice sale with Factory.io at $88,000 The post Park.io sells Factory.io for $88,000 appeared first on TLD Investors.

Metaphor.xyz was sold by Swetha from DNGear.com last month for $9,888. The domain names is now up and running and it looks like the company is involved in the DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization) space. They have a newsletter you can sign up for. They do not have many tweets only 31 and just a few […] The post Metaphor.xyz and Defined....

When you think of Park.io you obviously think about .io domain names. But Mike Carson and his team have been catching and selling a lot more than .io the last couple years. .Co makes up a decent % of the business. With 45 days left in 2021 Park.io has registered 2,283 sales at Namebio. But […] The post Park.io at $2.6m in reported sales for 2...

Optics.xyz was sold by Swetha back in September for $19,888. There is now a site up which tells you to go to the app which is at Optics.app. I think that alone is interesting that someone willing to pay close to $20,000 for a .xyz that is being used to redirect visitors to the app. […] The post Optics.xyz buyer revealed appeared first on TLD ...

Metaverse has been one of the hottest topics in technology, business and domain names in 2021. Facebook rebranding their its corporate entity to Meta, has been a big reason for all the interest in meta related domain name registrations and sales. The metaverse is great but what about the omniverse? NatureNoon gives a quick breakdown: […] The ...

Eth.paris selling for $50,000 marks the 15th Eth.keyword domain name sale in 2021. Some prominent domain investors have made sales with this keyword including, Mark Levine and Logan Flatt. Few of these names have websites. eth.co 300,000 USD 2021-05-23 MagnumDomains eth.club 200,000 USD 2021-09-14 Domaincracy eth.paris 50,000 USD 2021-11-09 Domain ...

Over the last couple months I have noticed Sav.com doing more business in .xyz. The prices have been picking up as well. For the first half of 2021 they only caught and auctioned 12 names. But over the last two months they have been picking up steam. True.xyz was the first 4 figure close, it […] The post Wholesale auction prices for .xyz have...

NameSilo released their October 2021 marketplace report. They mention the high sale was $120,000, I am trying to see if they will start releasing the actual names, at least a top 10 or 20. It's nice they put out some info but we need to dig a little deeper. 11 characters seemed to be the […] The post NameSilo October Marketplace stats –...

An interview with Neil Bostick the founder of Graen.com Q1) Tell us why you created Graen.com Neil? Good first question! I guess first and foremost I really wanted to make a private platform for investors to buy & sell high value domains as I thought that was what was missing from the current domain sales […] The post Graen.com wants to b...

Gambling-law-us.com closed at $57,000 back in November of 2019. The domain was paid for and they put up a website up. The domain previously was owned by an actual lawyer that practiced law related to gambling. The new owners made it clear they were not lawyers in the footer of the website. The site provided […] The post Gambling-law-us.com $5...

New Gtld domain name sales for October Looking back at September there were 262 reported new gtld domain name sales at Namebio. This is compared to 178 in September. Sales totaled $430,576 vs $744,829 in September. The top 5 sales: stir.xyz 39,888 USD 2021-10-27 DNGear.com squid.xyz 34,888 USD 2021-10-12 DNGear.com gem.xyz 18,200 USD 2021-10-21 Sho...

Namepros has a new look and some new functionality. They went into read only mode last night and things look a bit different. Welcome to the new NamePros in November! Today marks the first step toward a lot of positive and exciting changes coming to NamePros. You'll notice that most of what you loved is […] The post Namepros has a new look ap...

October Keyword Trends October belonged to Meta. Of all the keywords we track, it was the only keyword with multiple 5 figure sales. It took the top spot for both Meta and Online. Tech dipped in September while Data had a nice month. Shop did well with 51 sales starting with Shop. Coin bounced back […] The post October Keyword domain sales M...