Over the past week, 698 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: vkn.com at 24,900 USD Top ccTLD: weltliteratur.de (German for world literature) at 14,800 EUR Top “other” TLD: backgrounds.net at 9,999 USD Domain … [Read more...]
Are Domains The New Bitcoin?
One of those in the domain industry whose opinion I greatly respect, Alan Dunn, has made a lot of inroads in equating the value of domain names to commodities at least when it come to those "Chinese Domains"; ultra short domains with single, double and triple characters . According to many in the domain space, "Chinese Domains" equate their value to a commodities like Gold, Platinum, Silver, … [Read more...]
.Club To Hold No Reserve Numeric Auction on 4.CN
For the very first time, China’s prestigious domain auction platform 4.cn will be holding a dedicated auction for a single new domain extension – .CLUB. This auction will feature the highly valuable and prestigious name 8.club plus twenty four other great two number domains. ALL NAMES ARE OFFERED WITH NO RESERVES! Bidding Opens Monday March 7th and will close on a staggered basis. … [Read more...]
WOW: Uniregistry Goes To EAP Pricing Up to $28,500 For .MOM
Uniregistry is launching the new gTLD domain name extension .Mom and it's taking a whole new path a rather expensive one. Aside from the .car. .cars and .auto new gTLD's which is a joint venture between Uniregistry and XYZ, Uniregistry had avoided launching its new gTLD's with an Early Access Program (EAP), but with .Mom Uniregistry is using an EAP period and premium registration rates for its … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com Acquires Code.com
Salesforce.com has acquired yet another great domain name; Code.com The domain name Code.com just updated yesterday to show Salesforce.com as the new owner. The domain was previously owned under privacy at the brand protection company and domain name registrar Safenames which is also the company that Salesforce.com uses. According to Screenshots.com the last time they indexed a site on … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Sells 997.com
Rick Schwartz has sold the three number .Com domain name 997.com for an undisclosed price. Although the price was not disclosed Rick did tell TheDomains.com that the "sale is several times larger than the largest current sale of the year." According to DNjournal.com, the top sale of 2016, as of publication is BGI.com which sold for $235,000. Rick went on to tell me; "The sale will bring … [Read more...]
.Pet Went Live On Tuesday & Has Over 5.4K Domains Registrations
The new gTLD .Pet went live into general availability (GA) on Tuesday where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and according to ntlstats.com .Pet has 5,428 domain name registered. There were less than 100 .Pet domain names registered before GA in Sunrise. Godaddy is charging $11.99 for a .Pet domain for example but there are also premium domain names like Vet.Pet … [Read more...]