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Sometimes you see a domain name go for 4 figures and laugh. Once you investigate you see the bidder logic. BUTTERMILKCRISPYTENDERS.COM closed at $4,050 at GoDaddy auctions. ButterMilk Crispy Tenders became the new name for Chicken Selects at McDonald's in 2017. That's when McDonald's registered the domain name. They even have their own Wikipedia pa...
There has been a lot of discussion about the Uncle.com sale. Many calling it a steal, with one Namepros member commenting, "Definitely a 6 or low 7 figure domain." I do not share the sentiment that Uncle is a 7 figure domain name. But a reader emailed me and asked me a little while ago […] The post "Are most people who comment on blogs and Na...
The domain name Uncle.com sold for $66,002 at Sedo. The domain name registered since 1994 was owned by a Canadian IT specialist. The domain name was the personal blog site for a registrant with a background in cyber security and other matters of IT. UNCLE was used as an acronym Uncle is registered in 125 […] The post Uncle.com sells for $66,0...
Giuseppe Graziano released the 2020 Q3 Liquid Market Report. Escrow.com Sales Q3 2020 came in up 48.14% to $13,360,235. Public Disclosed Sales Q3 2020 came in at $3,065,162. Below is a look at all Global Markets tracked by LMX.com Check out the full report The post Q3 Liquid Market Report shows strong sales from Escrow.com appeared first on TheDoma...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Confirm.com led the way at $108,000. iu.de was second at 25,200 Euro, ($29,948). Westerly.com was third at $25,000. 52 .com sales 22 cctld sales 13 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: asahi.net at 11,900 USD evafoods.com at 8,950 USD […] The post Sedo we...
The September NameJet/Snapnames domain name sales report is led by NYMortgage.com at $25,250. Naturopathy.com was second at $24,995. Trotter.com came in third at $21,003. 93 total sales – 80 of them are .com. Kompozer.net was the highest non com sale. nymortgage.com $25,250.00 NameJet naturopathy.com $24,995.00 NameJet trotter.com $21,003.00 ...
Archie Comics has been around a long time, and they have some memorable characters, these include including Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, Reggie, Kevin Keller, Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The initial Archie characters were created in 1941 and have sold over 2 billion comics. The comic book series was relau...
So JB Lions mentioned an email that came in today about Jewelry.com changing to Welry.com "What is Welry? Welry is on a mission to create the digital destination for all things jewelry. As part of the Richline Group, one of the largest jewelry manufacturers in the US, we're using our long-standing knowledge in the jewelry […] The post Moving ...
Back in April I asked if the future of NamesCon was virtual? It looks like it's going to at least be apart of the future. I thought the online show went off very well and exceeded expectations. I think it needs to be a permanent event. 1020 domaining professionals registered for NamesCon Online, coming from […] The post NamesCon 2021 schedule...
Sedo released their weekly domain names sales and Just.me led the way at $50,000. Holland.de was second at 29,000 Euro, ($34,054). Brilliant.net was third at $27,500. 51 .com sales 27 cctld sales 11 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: cene.com at 12,500 USD youjuyouzhu.net at 12,400 USD […] The post Se...
Frank from MapleDots found this one, Perfect.com redirects to Proactis.com. Now this is not a new name, Proactis is a public company out of the U.K. They acquired Perfect Commerce in 2017. U.K.-based spend management and e-procurement solution provider Proactis announced Friday its snapping up Perfect Commerce, a U.S.-based source-to-pay (S2P) prov...
Janet Cho and Christel Harlacher from the firm of Williams Mullen published a piece on Trademark rights that's worth giving a once over and bookmarking. Especially for those new to domaining who sometimes have the wrong impression of trademark rights. The post titled: Ten Trademark Myths and How They Can Hurt Your Business clears up […] The p...
As we now enter the fourth quarter of 2020, reported domain name sales are way off 2019's pace. No surprise really with what has been going on in the world, a global pandemic, environmental and economic hardships have made 2020 one of the worst in recent memory. This is a domain name blog, so we […] The post As we enter Q4, 2020 domain name ...
6 years ago to the day, Phil Corwin published a piece on the ICA website about domain theft. The domain theft project. To be fair Corwin laid out that it was considering initiation. There has been a lot of domain industry press attention lately to domain thefts. We dont know for sure if this problem […] The post The Domain Theft Project's tim...
2020 has been the year of the online conference. Thanks to Covid-19 many conferences including NamesCon moved online. With that move has come a greater use for .online as the conference website. Radix (an advertiser here) published a post showing 8 conferences using their .online extension. From the Radix Blog: Virtual Events 2020: 8 Major […...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Blog.co.uk led the way at 54,000 Euro, ($63,404). Dalmatia.com was second at $22,800. Republic.de was third at 13,920 Euro, ($16,345). 45 .com sales 22 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: staratlas.com at 14,999 USD maze.co at […] The post ...
MarketBeat.com is a website I have stumbled upon a few times while searching Google. I was reading NichePursuits.com and came across a recent podcast interview with the founder. It's a pretty interesting story and a good listen for anyone looking to start an online business. The founder Matt Paulson was running a bunch of online […] The post ...
Doug Isenberg over at Giga.Law has started a UDRP masterclass. Domain Name Disputes: A Masterclass is a YouTube video series from attorney Doug Isenberg of GigaLaw that provides basic and advanced information about the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and other topics helpful to trademark owners fighting cybersquatters. Watch ea...
Domain names like WebMonkey.com, PDFzone.com and most recently ConstitutionUS.com are all aged domain names that went for big money at auction. These domain names were all aged, with a solid backlink profile and strong in other metrics like domain authority and trust flow. Richard Patey published a very good article on the topic for anyone […...
Banks.com was once a publicly traded company. Elliot Silver reported in 2010 about an agreement with Domain Capital. I just learned that Banks.com, a company that is publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange under ticker symbol BNX, has entered into a sale-leaseback agreement with domain financing company, Domain Capital. It appears that Domai...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Trajectory.com led the way at $50,000. WOWCasino.co.uk was second at 23,900 GBP, ($30,450). OneCare.com was third at $25,000. 34 .com sales 21 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: cloudautomation.com at 9,500 USD orandaya.com at 7,999 USD […...
A few days ago I wrote about PirateBay.org closing at $50,000 on DropCatch. Next in line was ThePirateBay.com, also caught by DropCatch and closed at $35,150. ThePirateBay.com was originally registered in 2004. Metrics Ahrefs domain rating of 33 Backlinks 7,973 78% dofollow Referring Domains 1,212 68% dofollow Majestic.com shows a Trust flow of 12 ...
There have been 7,064 reported new gtld sales at Namebio. These sales total $26.6 million. The top 10 brought home $3,169,431 or approximately 12% of all reported sales. .Top and .Games both placed multiple entries in the top 10, with 2 each. Online.Casino and Casino.Online both made the top 10. Online.Casino is a developed directory […] The ...
Over at Namepros today Lambo.com posted an AMA and revealed that he sold the domain name Coinex.com for $500,000. Great sale on Lambo.com's part, it looks like Media Options was involved too. The post AMA at Namepros reveals $500,000 sale appeared first on TheDomains.com.
On May 18 I wrote about BarclaysBank.com being sold for $3,003 on NameJet. The domain was registered in 1999 and owned by Roy Edward Messer the man who sold Vodka.com for $3 million in 2006. In the comments Roy said: roy e messer says May 18, 2020 at 6:50 am I tried multiple times to […] The post Buyer was begging for a UDRP and got one appea...
Web.com released their August aftermarket report, and ZML.com led the way at $34,000. Taiyuan.com was second at $17,500 and RumorFix.com was third at $15,750. Just 74 sales $2,000 or more in August, 67 were .com. zml.com $34,000.00 NameJet taiyuan.com $17,500.00 NameJet rumorfix.com $15,750.00 SnapNames ncvc.org $10,500.00 NameJet cybersales.com $9...
Jobless is unfortunately a keyword that is on the minds of many in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a spike in jobless claims in the U.S. and many other parts of the world. Below is a look at Google trends which saw a spike from 4 to 100 for the keyword jobless in March. […] The post Jobless.com sells for $2,500 after selling for $19,02...
Sedo released their weekly sales and HotelsGuide.com led the way at 50,000 Euros, Bags.co.uk was second at 40,000 Euros and Wintage.com was third at $17,000. Domain name Date Price Currency .COMs hotelsguide.com 09/08/2020 50,000 EUR wintage.com 09/08/2020 17,000 USD ilek.com 09/11/2020 12,000 USD coralee.com 09/08/2020 10,000 USD compacon.com 09/0...
The Pirate Bay is one of, if not thee most well known bit torrent websites on the Internet. There are several domain extensions affiliated with the Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay first came online during the summer of 2003, its main point of access was thepiratebay.org. ThePirateBay.org and ThePirate-Bay.org are hosting content and today we […] T...
Honest opinion or validation When it comes to opinions, some people care about everyone's opinion, others only care about the opinions of those that are more successful and others don't give a damn what anyone thinks on a certain topic. When the topic of domain appraisals comes up, things can get spicy and sometimes nasty. […] The post Do dom...
MacRumors.com published a piece on Apple registering a number of AppleOne related domain names. Apple has a meeting taking place on 9/15 and an announcement may be coming on a new service. Whether they can get the .com or net will remain to be seen. I doubt they will get the .com. Appleone.com is a […] The post Apple registrations point to a ...
The biggest reported domain name sale of 2020 comes in at $720,000. Namepros member Keith posted in 2017 that he purchased Nas.com for $50,000 in BTC. He added the BTC actually cost him next to nothing. He posted tonight he sold Nas.com for $720,000. Well done and one hell of a flip. The post $50,000 purchase to $720,000 sale appeared first on TheD...
Announced to coincide with the start of NamesCon Online, our ad partner DAN and Bodis have announced a partnership. I had early access to the new hybrid sales landing pages and I think it's a good move for both companies. From the release: DAN and BODIS are partnering on a unique first ever hybrid monetization-sales […] The post DAN-BODIS par...
Radix is entering the name spinning space with Namify, located at Namify.tech. The name-spinner is aimed at solopreneurs, small business owners and startups looking for affordable brand building solutions that include brand name, domain name, social media handles as well as a brand logo. Unlike most other brand name spinners that simply add prefixe...
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and Lokal.com led the way at 40,600 Euro, ($47,822). OOTD.com was closed behind at $40,000 and RoboticProcessAutomation.com third at 22,000 Euro, ($25,914). 54 .com sales 30 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: yhxc.net at 15,000 USD lumen.eu […...
Radix's Premium Domains report for the first half of 2020 is out and here is a look at some of the performance points. $1.96M in revenue; 19% growth over H2 2019 New premium registrations contributed to ~50% of the total premium revenue for this period 41% jump in new premium registrations vs H2 2019 $996K […] The post Radix Premium Domains R...
Election Domain Names Kacey C at DigitalShadows.com wrote a very ind depth article on domain names and the upcoming election. Delving into which names are being used for malicious purposes and which are just bad for a candidates brand. She looked at domain names in three different categories: Misconfigured or illegitimate sites: Typosquats that wer...
The registry for .LU the country code of Luxembourg announced they will be opening up registrations for 1 and 2 character .LU domain names. The end of 20 years of non-availability. From the release: From 31 August to 15 December 2020, through its DNS-LU service operating the national registry for .lu, the Restena Foundation is […] The post .L...
Some consolidation in the New Zealand registry space as Site Direct announced the acquisition of DomainsDirect.nz. Scoop.co.nz reported: SiteTech Group is proud to announce the acquisition of New Zealand based company, Domains Direct, who specialise in providing low cost .nz domain names. Domains Direct will continue to operate alongside SiteTech G...
SecurityWeek published a piece on a new domain blocking service. It's a partnership between government agencies and the private sector. The service MDBR seeks to block and report malicious domains, blocking connections to domain names deemed harmful. From the article: A new Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting (MDBR) service will help organizati...
Mike Mann announced the sale of SPCM.com Purchased 10/9/12 $409, and sold for $49,950. Newer domain name investors think, wow, why? Just a chip, not pronounceable. None of that matters when you have all the most important domain dynamic in place, a deep pocketed buyer with a real name for those four letters. The buyer […] The post SPCM.com so...
So there is a post on AVN.com (NSFW, the ads on the site, not the article) The service is operated by adult industry veterans JuicyAds Founder "Juicy Jay" and Jimmy "Wizzo" with more than 42 years combined experience. Broker.xxx has launched a dedicated adult domain marketplace loaded with a portfolio it says is worth more […] The post Broker...
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and MoovLogistics.com led the way at $21,000. MXEX.com was second at $15,500 and Cleace.com third at $15,000. 47 .com sales 21 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: mallorcaproperties.com 10,000 USD chinagoods.net at 8,888 EUR shopoo.com at 5,550...
Sedo announced that Matthias Conrad is stepping down as CEO and the new CEO will be Michael Robrock the current COO. Release Cologne, September 1, 2020 – After 20 months in his position as CEO at the German internet company Sedo GmbH, Matthias Conrad is stepping down due to personal reasons. He will be succeeded […] The post Matthias Co...
There seems to be more and more articles coming out with regards to .io and how the natives of the Chagos Islands want their extension back. I first wrote about it back in 2015, and then again in July of this year. Fortune is out with another article, the provocative title of, ‘Colonialism' and crypto […] The post Fortune is the latest ...
The Biden campaign looks to be using Joe.Link in probably the best way .link should be used. As a branded URL shortener. Video announcing Kamala Harris as VP (read the description):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfACU9wC1ok JOE.LINK/APP for App Store: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-data-hungry -invasive-app-is-a-voter-su...
Jerrick.media is rebranding to Creatd. The company looks to have purchased the domain name Creatd.com from Brandpa. The name was listed at BrandBucket for $2,395 as seen here on DNBolt.com. Jerrick is the owner of Vocal.media 650,000 creators who have published over 150 million words, which has been attributed to over 400 million minutes of […...
CoinTelegraph posted that the domain name Sex.crypto sold for 230 ETH or close to $90,000. Earlier today, the domain ‘sex.crypto'soldfor 230 ETH, or approximately $90,000 at press time. The domain extension .crypto is generated by Unstoppable Domains and is censorship-resistant. The transaction, which occurred on OpenSea's token marketplace, ...
Some new rules coming to the Australian domain name space. According to an article on CSCDBS.com the auDA will be putting new rules in place that go into effect on October 5, 2020. Rules apply to both new and existing domain names. Whats changing? Previously, an Australian trademark application or registration may constitute the required […] ...
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their second quarter Domain Name Industry Brief. Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020....
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