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Back on January 22 the news broke that Ethos Capital, LLC would acquire the controlling interest in Donuts Inc. Acquisition includes worlds largest portfolio of top-level domain names. Today they put out a press release BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ethos Capital, LLC (Ethos Capital), a private equity firm that invests in middle-market compani...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and GWI.com led the way at $105,000. 717.com was right behind at $101,000. Showing how numerics have dropped off as I think 2016-2017 that name is triple. 1588.com was third at $25,388. 50 .com sales 22 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS […] The post Sedo weekly domain...
DialSource.com is rebranding to Conquer.io. The move from a .com to a .io will send some screaming from the rafters. In 2019 Agentology.com rebranded to Verse.io. Conquer published a lengthy blog post on the change. It's important to note they are not an underfunded or no funded startup that always seem to move to a […] The post Dial Source r...
Owning a two letter .com is a symbol of exclusivity and prestige. There are only 676 available, one company is moving on from their special domain and redirecting it. The company is rebranding from RB.com to Reckitt. The new company website is Reckitt.com. The company released a video and press release: The post RB rebrands as Reckitt appeared firs...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Germanium.com led the way at $45,000. Je.de was second at 30,000 Euro, ($35,546). HumanIngenuity.com was third at $31,500. 56 .com sales 31 cctld sales 19 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: humaningenuity.com at 31,500 USD crypto.chat at 19,900 USD […] ...
Michael Saylor did an episode on TheHustle uploaded to their YouTube Channel. Saylor talks about how he sold Voice.com and other domain names he developed and sold. Domain names like Alarm.com which is now publicly traded. Angel.com was another business Michael Saylor talks about in the video. It's a good listen worth your time. The post The Hustle...
Another five figure .io sale as Leet.io sells for $10,000. This was not an expired auction. Looking at the Whois it looks like Mike Carson's company Humbly, LLC sold the domain name. The domain name redirects to REH.at. The buyer is a street artist who has a background in software engineering. For those unfamiliar with […] The post Leet.io se...
Radix published their full year 2020 results and the numbers were up from 2019. The $28 million in revenue was up 31% over 2019. Radix CEO Sandeep Ramchandani, said, 2020 was a really strong year for us, both, financially and strategically. Since a majority of our revenue comes from renewals, we will only start seeing […] The post Radix sees ...
WorldTrademarkReview.com published an article about an upcoming auction of over 900 trademark regs in Latvia. Michael Gleissner has filed approximately 6800 trademarks according to the article. I have sold and brokered domain names to Mick in the past. There was never any mention of trademarks or any problems. I was surprised when all the trademark...
Brent Oxley's domain names are now unlocked at GoDaddy. Paul Nicks posted the following at Namepros: All, Id like to provide the community with another update on the recent situation. I appreciate all the opinions and engagement from the community. As we reviewed our policies and procedures, our goal was to do whats right for […] The post Cre...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and UM.co led the way at 55,000 Euro, ($65,368). Jejo.com was second at $39,595 and May24.com was third at $39,000. 43 .com sales 25 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: jejo.com at 39,595 USD commandiq.com at 14,825 […] The post Sedo weekly dom...
NameJet/Snapnames released their February sales data. The top sale was payzone.com at $15,000. The top SnapNames Sale: smartjx.com – $11,554 DOMAINNAME BRAND TYPE SALES AMOUNT payzone.com Namejet Expiring $15,000 cheapmovies.com Namejet Brokerage and Escrow $12,345 cheapmovies.com Namejet Expiry $12,345 artlex.com Namejet Expiring $11,000 arc...
So while there is other stuff going on in domaining, for many the only thing that matters is the Brent Oxley domain lockdown at GoDaddy. Someone registered FireAman.com referring to the CEO of GoDaddy Aman Bhutani and redirected it to the thread on Namepros. I started another thread to get the input from other domain […] The post Other Regist...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and 509.com led the way at $106,000. This was a haircut from the last time it sold. Swap.io was second at $50,000 and vollautomat.de was third at 20,000 Euro, ($23,803). Domain name Date Price Currency .COMs 509.com 03/02/2021 106,000 USD utxo.com 03/02/2021 20,000 USD subset.com 03/01/2021 10,502 USD [&...
Escrow.com released their Q4 Domain Investment Index report. The total transacted domain name amount continues to show signs of recovery from the impact of the pandemic – with a strong Q4 of $93.8 million compared to $77.5 million in Q3. Domain sales over $50,000 increased as Fortune 500 companies relaxed controls on capital expenditure. Down...
Since James Iles wrote about Brent Oxley having his domain names locked by GoDaddy due to someone filing a complaint in India, Namepros has erupted. Many have started transferring names out, I mentioned the story to someone this morning who neither goes to Namepros anymore or reads most blogs. He replied back 30 minutes later […] The post The...
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2020. The fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.2 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2020. According to Verisign domain name registrations...
HomeContractors.com registered in 1998 was left to expire at GoDaddy and closed at $51,000. The domain name looks to have been owned by a Jeff Sauer from Three Deep Marketing. Jeff is alive and well he tweeted today. He seems to be affiliated with another company now so maybe he left and no one else […] The post HomeContractors.com expires an...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FXCA.com led the way at $35,000. Defendable.com was second at $30,000 and bildelar.se was third at 15,000 Euro, ($18,131). 57 .com sales 21 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: burn.art at 12,500 USD nimgroup.com at 11,700 […] The post Sedo...
Buy3Dprinter.com was registered in 2008 and was sold by a Dutch registrant in 2014 for $12,000 at Sedo. The domain name was purchased by Fizz, LLC. The buyer looks to be affiliated with Rebuzz.io as well. The domain name stayed parked at Sedo and has been left to expire. The domain name closed for 1/6th […] The post Buy3Dprinter.com sold for ...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and PLP.com led the way at $117,500. Yamaguchi.com was second at $25,000 and GartenCenter.de was third at 20,000 Euro, ($24,291). 72 .com sales 22 CCTLD sales 17 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: onecandy.com at 12,500 USD maximon.com at 10,001 […] The pos...
Sedo and Internet X produced a Global Domain Report that has a lot of interesting facts and figures. A great look back at 2020 with input from several industry participants. Page 22 is interesting, Domain-inhabitant ratio In order to calculate the domain-inhabitant ratio, they put the domains registered in a given country in relation to […] T...
Rick Schwartz answers a multitude of questions on topics such as new gtlds, the future of domaining, valuation and a host of other things. I hope you enjoy the interview and thanks to Rick for taking the time. Q1) You have been doing this a long time, are you still excited by domain investing and […] The post A no holds barred interview with ...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Triple.com led the way at $220,000. GymEquipment.com was second at $18,000. Lygon.com was third at $12,000. 49 .com sales 25 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: datingnetwork.com at 10,000 USD xu.net at 10,000 USD hniglobal.com at […]...
LiteBit.com sold for $50,000 last month. The seller was Shane Kinsch. You can read more about Shane on his website. The buyer was 2525 Ventures B.V., out of the Netherlands. They own LiteBit.eu and the domain now redirects to LiteBit.eu. What's interesting is that they tried to get the domain name through UDRP in 2019. […] The post LiteBit.co...
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported earnings today after the close. Revenue for the quarter was up 12% year over year. The stock was up on the day but down 3% in after hours trading Highlights: Revenue of $873.9m, up 12.0% YoY; bookings of $943.1m, up 13.1% YoY Projected Q1 revenue growth of 12% to $885m and […] The post GoDaddy added 1.4m net cust...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Zag.com led the way at $450,000. This was followed by the 70,000 Euro sale of Kitchen.co. Betify.com sold for $39,999 in this continuing trend of big "ify" sales. 68 .com sales 34 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Top 3 public SedoMLS sales are: eni.ch […] The post Sedo weekly domain ...
Teespring is a social e-commerce platform and changed their name to Spring. Namepros member Akos noticed they are transitioning from a .com domain, to a domain hack based on the Nigerian TLD country code .ng. https://www.spri.ng/blog/spring-is-here The domain name spring.com is used for a UK job website owned by Adecco Spring UK. The move to [̷...
Last week I wrote about the $75,000 sale of Speechify.com and this week we have Newsify.com closing at $45,944 at GoDaddy auctions. There are developed websites at Newsify.co and TheNewsify.com. TheNewsify.com has a page on Crunchbase and describes itself as: Newsify is a judicious assemblage of the latest updates about whats happening around you. ...
NameJet/Snapnames released their January sales data and 31op.com was the top sale at $29,500. Top NameJet Sale: shes.com – $22,722Top SnapNames Sale: 31op.com – $29,500NameJet had 3 domains sell over $10KSnapNames had 3 domains sell over $10K Domain Name Brand Type Sales Amount shes.com Namejet Expiring $22,722 digitale.com Namejet Dele...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and flitterwochen.de (Honeymoon in German) led the way at 20,000 Euro, ($24,083). Tourist.it was second at 15,000 Euro, ($18,065) and Pay.do was third at $18,000. 52 .com sales 23 cctld sales 16 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: yjhfw.net at 12,500 […] The ...
Whois.AI concluded their auctions for February and Mia.ai led the way at $4,099. There were 50 completed auctions with 10 closing $1,000 or more. In January 24 of those .ai auctions closed at $1,000 or above. In December, 22 auctions closed at $1,000 or more. mia.ai 4,099 USD 2021-02-01 Whois.ai em.ai 4,000 USD 2021-02-01 Whois.ai […] The pos...
The suffix ify is used to form verbs meaning to cause an increase in the stated quality; to become. It has been a popular naming category sought out and registered by those in the brandable domain name space. BrandBucket has 166 names ending in "ify" for sale. Of course two of the most well known […] The post GetSpeechify.com paid $75K to upg...
Clarivate put out a press release today with regards to domain management and security. No surprise as domain names become more valuable and meaningful to organizations around the world. The 2020 survey was conducted by independent research firm Vitreous World and surveyed 1100 IT, legal and marketing decision-makers around the world from seven cou...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and BetterCare.com topped the list at $30,000. LGW.com was second at $26,500 and Sin.net was third at $20,000. 55 .com sales 26 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: betbuy.com at 15,000 USD tevio.com at 7,950 USD junited.com […] The post S...
Radix released their second half 2020 premium sales data. $2.01M in premium retail revenue Comprises of $1.15M coming from renewals 37% growth in premium new registrations from H2 2020 .TECH was the highest-grossing TLD with $273K in annuity premium sales The post Radix registers over $2m in premium sales revenue for second...
After failing to acquire Public Interest Registry (PIR) the entity that runs the .org extension, Ethos Capital is back in the headlines. They have added to their investment in Donuts, Inc. and now have the controlling stake. On their website Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehad the Co-CEO's announced the following: As Co-CEOs of Ethos Capital, […] The...
Monte Cahn's Right of The Dot is going to be holding their own live auction next month. In a press release out today, ROTD announced that on February 25 they will be hosting a live auction from a studio in College Station Texas. Press release: On February 25, 2021, RightOfTheDot, in partnership with best selling […] The post Right of The Dot ...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and HolyGround.com led the way at $60,000. Flow.me was close behind at 48,000 Euro, ($58,195). MusicMarket.com was third at $44,000. 49 .com sales 16 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: timebase.com at 9,950 USD frontdoorhealth.com at 5,799 […]...
Riz from EmpireNames.com sold Newz.com for $70,000 in December. He had purchased it just three months before for $15,500. Riz mentioned he did so with the help of Epik's Rob Monster. The buyer is Contents.com out of Milano MI, ITALY. They own several websites around the world. They also are involved in technology and tools […] The post Newz.c...
Web.com released December 2020 sales for NameJet/Snapnames Top NameJet Sale: huodong.com – $35,001Top SnapNames Sale: fakeid.com – $17,000NameJet had 13 domains sell over $10KSnapNames had 3 domains sell over $10K NameJet huodong.com $35,001wonderment.com $25,3882goldcurrency.com $25,166width.com $25,000fiancee.com $23,000covcare.com $1...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FaceYoga.com led the way at 55,000 GBP, ($74,855). You can read more about FaceYoga. HostGrid.com was second at 23,550 GBP, ($32,187). Third is a Japanese name, .com it looks like it means Shiro Gohan or White Rice. It sold for 22,000 Euro, ($26,849). 45 .com sales 21 […] The post Sedo weekly d...
Giuseppe Graziano released the Q4 2020 Liquid Market Report. Public Disclosed Sales Q4 2020 were down 10.92% according to the report. $2,730,378 Escrow.com Sales Q4 2020 were down 17.49% at $11,023,223. Check out the full report here The post Q4 2020 Liquid Market Report shows a decline in sales to end the year appeared first on TheDomains.com.
Checkout.com just raised $450 million, according to TechCrunch, the company wants to build a one-stop shop for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure part...
Earlier the news broke that Parler.com moved to Epik and now GoDaddy has apparently booted AR15.com. 15 years ago I said this was the way I thought the Internet would be in the future. Splintered as a series of "Internets" Countries who want to protect a valuable resource would keep out what they don't like. […] The post GoDaddy boots AR15.co...
Colin from Dot Club tweeted out that .Club had the most premium .club sales in one day on Saturday. 72 names sold. The prices and renewal fees were not included in the tweet. Colin did provide the list. The post Dot CLUB hits record 72 premium names sold in one day appeared first on TheDomains.com.
The .org extension was in the news a lot in 2020, many organizations, investors and other interested parties were anxious about a potential sale of the registry to Ethos Capital. Then on April 30, 2020 ICANN says no sale on .org. On the reported sales side of the coin, .Org has continued an upward trajectory […] The post In 2020 .org continue...
Disclaimer: This post is for adults only, should not be read around children or at work, the subject of the article deals in words many will find offensive or possibly be triggered by. With social networks censoring being in the spotlight this week. Someone asked about hate related domain names eventually being shut down. On […] The post Will...
Epik provided an update on their termination from Afternic Fast Transfer. In the blog post Epik gives some insight into what factors played a part in the decision from their view. From the post We believe there were several factors involved, including our reports of repeated Afternic security issues with their platform harming both registrars [R...
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales report and Limit.com led the way at $120,000. Termine.de was second at 21,000 Euro, ($25,817). Frugality.com was third at $22,500. 64 .com sales 39 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: signalpro.com at 8,999 USD bive.com at 8,000 […] The post Se...
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