Frank Schilling just announced he has sold over 2,000 4 letter .com domain names for $3 million dollars Frank also announced that all 4 letter domain names in .link and .click have sold out at the registry level " All 4 and 5 number combinations in link and click are about to be sold or sold out" All 6 numbers in link and click are pending sale.” "All 4 letter domain names in link and … [Read more...]
Archives for November 13, 2015
Rick Schwartz Sells 4 Domains For Over $1.325M & Breaks Record (Again) For 4 Number .Com
Rick Schwartz added to his most amazing year, selling four more domain names this week for just over $1.325 million dollars. Rick, who is known as the Domain King, keeps showing why he owns that title. Included in this week's sales is 6565.com which set another record for a 4 number .Com domain name. Rick sold 9595.com for $180,000 in July, which at the time set a record for the highest … [Read more...]
Stats Spin? .London Renewal At 75.4% For Sunrise, Landrush & 1st Day Domains
The .London registry along with Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX)) announced today that the renewal rates for .London domain names "exceeded expectations by reaching 75.4%." However that "renewal rate is for a total of 38,389 names applied for during the Dot London combined Sunrise and Landrush period as well as the first day of General Availability, registered between August 19th and September 9th … [Read more...]
DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per
DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. "Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains" which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex's portfolio of over … [Read more...]
Remember that bidding war for 66.biz ? Owner got his real world appraisal and transferred out
I have talked many times about people playing the real world appraisal game, they let the domain name complete auction at Go Daddy and then get the auth code and transfer out. Not everyone knows that you can transfer out, so many believe that someone would not pay $80 for this real world appraisal, most don't pay $80 and redeem at Go Daddy, they transfer out to another registrar for $8. So … [Read more...]