Wild story on Reuters today as it appears there is a Vape company called Chill that smartly operates on Chill.com. Well it seems Chief Commercial Officer Antonio Russo and Chief Operating Officer Trevor Taylor transferred the name to an account owned by Russo. From the article: Tip of the cap to Namepros member Silentg The post Someone at Chill kno...

Escrow.com announced their Master of Domains 2024 winners and no surprise Andrew Rosener topped the list once again. Andrew really is a machine. Andrew Miller the Managing Director of Hilco Digital Assets came in second and Jeffrey Gabriel Co-Founder of Saw.com came in third. Press Release: AUSTIN, Texas – 6 June 2024 – Escrow.com, the ...

Simone Catania from InterNetX published an article on DotMagazine.online about country code domain names. The focus of the article was the European market. Simone writes, Undeterred by the numerous alternate naming options, Europe relies strongly on ccTLDs with roughly 54.2% median market. The popularity of ccTLDs within this region is linked to ma...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and RKX.com led the way at $100,000. Buran.com was second at $80,000. Bring.de the top cctld sale was third at 55,000 Euro, ($59,881). 30 .com sales 16 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by RKX.com appeared firs...

IT.com has added Porkbun to their growing list of registrars offering .it.com domain names. Press release: A provider of innovative domains for the technology industry, it.com Domains, announced a partnership with Porkbun, one of the largest and fastest-growing domain registrars globally. This collaboration will serve the worldwide IT community by ...

Weeks ago Google came out and addressed the topic of expired domain names. On their blog "TheKeyword" they wrote: Expired domain abuse Occasionally, expired domains are purchased and repurposed with the primary intention of boosting search ranking of low-quality or unoriginal content. This can mislead users into thinking the new content is part of ...

Bitcoin.com published a piece on Apu Apustaja a new meme coin. The coins is apparently rocking and they made a major upgrade at domain name. From Apu.community to Apu.com. Apu Apustaja, a new memecoin making waves in the industry, has announced impressive support from its rapidly growing community, including over 11,650 coin holders and more [̷...

BBC.com published an interesting article on Google using AI overviews to impact search. Along with changes to their algorithm many small to mid sized content websites are feeling the pinch. One of the beneficiaries seems to be Reddit. From the article: SEMrush data shows that other user-generated sites such as Quora and Instagram saw similarly [...

Markmonitor released their Q2 2024 new gtld report. The 25 page report is all things new gtld. I was interested in what they called Web Fusion. Web2 and Web3 converging. This starts on page 17 and discusses the two big players in that game. D3 and Unstoppable Domains. If you have any interest in the […] The post Markmonitor New gTLD Report: Q...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Humanity.org led the way at $225,000. The top .com was Astrex.com at $25,500. 28 .com sales 30 cctld sales 2 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM astrex.com 05/15/2024 25500 USD cornucopias.com 05/16/2024 24888 […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Humanit...

Rick Schwartz shared what he deemed a successful Domain negotiation. It was quite comical, and illustrates something I have been saying to friends in the corporate world for years. "If you are going to try to buy a domain name, find out who owns the name and see if you can research them." Because someone […] The post The old "we have a small ...

Close to a year after buying Google's domain business, Squarespace is going private. The stock popped 13% on the news yesterday. It closed today basically unchanged. CNBC mentioned They also point out that the $44 per share in cash, a roughly 30% premium to Squarespaces unaffected share price. Squarespace was never a market darling. It […] Th...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and uTask.com led the way at $20,000. Reformas.es was number two at 12,500 Euro, ($13,522). 22 .com sales 10 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Soccerverse.com and Retroverse.com were representing the verse niche, I see some on Twitter high on verse. Interesting to see if that takes off […] The post Se...

Closing at DropCatch today is the ugly looking domain name Tiwtter.com. A typo for Twitter which is now of course referred to as X. So one might be thinking eventually Elon Musk is going to make the changeover to using X.com so is it worth bothering picking up this typo? Currently at $820 with the […] The post Tiwtter.com auction closing toda...

Michael Sumner tweeted out some reported a 2022 domain name sale to him. It was Nexus.xyz. The website is developed there investors are also listed, and here is a link to their white paper. Registered in 2019 now at Squarespace. Domain Name: NEXUS.XYZ Registry Domain ID: D118384656-CNIC Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.squarespace.domains Registrar UR...

It was back on February 5th of 2014 when the first group of Latin script new gtlds went live. It's been 10 years. Someone the other day asked me why are still calling them new gtlds? You're ten year old is certainly not a newborn and your ten year old car has lost that new […] The post A decade in should we really still be calling them new gt...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Lumeno.com led the way at $25,000. U33.com was second at $17,777. Eclipse.solar was the top other tld sale at $7,500. 24 .com sales 20 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM lumeno.com […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Lumeno.com appeared fi...

Different communities on Twitter gain their own little designation, NFL Twitter, NBA Twitter, StarWars Twitter, etc… A decade ago it would have seemed there would be no way there was a Domainer Twitter, I mean for years people preached only produce content on your domain name the thing which you control. Don't let a third […] The post D...

Escrow.com released their Q1 2024 Domain name report and .ai once again showed strength. $2.6M in Q1 2024 and a good chance most of those sales are not reported on Namebio. This quarter, the total domain name volume on Escrow.com continues to increase from $79M in 4Q23 to $84M in 1Q24. Key highlights include: Total […] The post Escrow.com rel...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and X.ar was the top sale at $99,888. DomainHacks.com made the sale. The largest reported .ar domain name sale of all time. DeltaOptical.com was sold for $30,000 by Mike Mann. 36 .com sales 20 cctld sales 2 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:     Domain […] The po...

Debanked.com published an interesting piece on Domain Names as Loan Collateral. A company called Teller created a DeFi product to use domain names as collateral. From the article: a DeFi Cash Advance, a collateralized loan with 1-30 day terms. Its just one of many products created by Teller, a peer-to-peer lending platform that relies on […] ...

Verisign Inc. (VRSN) announced earnings for its Q1 2024 and there was an increase from the same period last year and beat the Street estimates. The company's bottom line came in at $194.1 million, or $1.92 per share. This compares with $178.7 million, or $1.70 per share, in last year's first quarter. Financial Highlights Full […] The post Ver...

Roger Montti published an article on SearchEngineJournal.com that discussed whether links were still important to Google when it came to search engine ranking. Apparently Google's Gary Illyse was at a search conference in Bulgaria and stated, "We need very few links to rank pages Over the years weve made links less important." He also tweeted [R...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and LVK.com led the way at $65,000. Las Vegas Kings? I don't know the name does not resolve. a v and a k is usually difficult in the same LLL but this one found the right buyer. Acronym finder shows just 6 acronyms. Pay.day the perfect what Mike […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by LVK...

Luc Biggs scored a bulk sale in .ai. I have not seen that before maybe others have. Luc put together a portfolio of 68 LLL.ai domain names, the price worked out to $495 each or $33,660. He posted the sales pitch yesterday and today said that it was sold using Escrow.com. I believe but not […] The post Luc Biggs sells a bulk lot of 68 LLL.ai d...

Crunchbase news is out with a report today on Web3 and the number of deals getting done. While there was an uptick in Q1 2024 they point out that venture dollars well off the highs seen in 2021-22. From the article: Web3, once the buzziest of all buzz words in the venture landscape, saw its […] The post Web3 funding in Q1 2024 sees it's first...

When I interviewed Rick Schwartz at the beginning of the year he mentioned he purchased female first names in .ai including $20K for Betty.ai. Rick mentioned: Well, let me put it this way. One of the big sectors of Ai is virtual girlfriends. And so I have four female first names ending in Ai. Like […] The post AI Girlfriends will create a bil...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Xash.com led the way at $39,000. PokerPlus.com was second at 25,000 Euro, ($26,801) seller acquired for just $737. Kiffen.com was third at 22,450, ($23,885). 23 .com sales 20 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led...

Every end user for your .ai domain name may not be looking to pay you that lotto winning price. TechCrunch published a piece today on how investors in AI are getting a tad weary. For those setting 6 and 7 figure price tags for their .ai domain names, this is worth reading. From the article: […] The post Global investment in AI fell for the se...

Giuseppe Graziano released the liquid domain report for Q1 2024 – The volume of sales for liquid domains reported by escrow.com went up by 89% (QoQ) to 18M.  – The most notable categories in terms of sales volume were the 2L and 3L .com domains, reporting sales volumes in the $5.3M and $9.3M range respectively, accor...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and LightBet.com led the way at $74,999. Pafikotobogor.org was second at $35,000. Specter.com was third at $33,000. 27 .com sales 18 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM lightbet.com 04/04/2024 74999 USD […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Ligh...

In 28 years of domaining you see a lot, I have been on forums where people believed domain investors should be thrown off a mountain because they were sitting on a domain name they wanted. Others resorting to the traditional reverse domain name hijacking. But it seems like someone has started a Change.org petition to […] The post This is how ...

NameJet/SnapNames released their March 2024 sales report. NameJet sales increased 39% MoM with a sales amount increase of 120%. SnapNames sales increased 4% but sales amount increased 78%. ASP increased 58% and 71% respectively for NameJet and SnapNames At NameJet the top sale was AKIRA.com at $75,000. At SnapNames top sale was MODU.com at $63,088....

A release on the website Investegate.co.uk detailed the sale of Printing.com for $2.27M. The sale will be handled in two installments. Software Circle plc was the seller and the buyer was JAL Equity Corp. ("Software Circle", the "Company" or the "Group") Sale of printing.com ("PDC") Domain and update regarding sale of Works Manchester Limited ("WML...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and BirdBuddy.com and Li.net tied for the top spot at $50,000. This was the lowest number of sales in a week that I can remember. 14 .com sales 15 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by BirdBuddy.com and Li.net app...

Alex Verdea posted that with Rick Schwartz in his corner he sold TheDeeply.com for $75,000 Net. One point Alex made in his tweet was for people to turn off their whois privacy. Congrats to Alex on a great domain name sale. SOLD: TheDeeply dot com for $75,000USD net. I had the @domainking in my corner […] The post TheDeeply.com sells for $75K ...

The Sedo .ai domain name auction wrapped up today. There were no big sales as the greatest names just had reserve ranges much too high for investors. There are currently two auctions still going, Asmr.ai and Czar.ai. ASMR.ai looks like it will be the top sale if paid as it's currently at $5,100. The high […] The post Sedo .Ai auction results ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Bagels.com led the way at $50,000. Soga.com was second at $50,000. Playhouse.ai was the top cctld sale at $24,999. 32 .com sales 33 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM bagels.com 03/18/2024 […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Bagels.com app...

.Ai is going to be initiating deposit requirements for their expired auctions. Vincent Cate also doubled down on the fact that only the domain owner will know when their .ai domain name expires. You can click on the below tweet to read the discussion. Would you like to see other auction house follow this move? […] The post Should all auction ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Profile.link led the way at 40,000 Euro, ($43,426). DreamCosmetics.com was the top .com at $25,000. 37 .com sales 34 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COM dreamcosmetics.com 03/14/2024 25000 USD lessy.com […] The post Sedo weekly domain name sales led by ...

InterNetX spends a great deal of time and effort each year to produce their Global Domain Report. This year there is a large emphasis on A.I both the technology and .ai domain names. There is a lot of data, comments from industry participants including Andrew from DNW, Elliot at DomainInvesting.com, Page Howe, Theo from DomainGang.com, […] Th...

NameJet/SnapNames released their February 2024 aftermarket report. NameJet Domain Name Brand Product Type Sales Amt transverse.com Namejet Expiry $18,502 readytalk.com Namejet Deleting $9,750 patented.com Namejet Expiry $9,029 goldbridge.com Namejet Expiry $5,589 energystore.com Namejet Expiry $5,553 bestproperties.com Namejet Expiry $5,338 ...