I want to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2022. Looking back at 2021 there were a few 3 letter combinations, the Metaverse and Swetha that dominated the news in 2021. NFT Non fungible tokens, made a huge impact in 2021, some prominent domain investors swifted some or all of their attention to the NFT market. People like Shane Cultra, Jonathan Tenenbaum, Alan Dunn, the Booth brothers really … [Read more...]
Batteries.com going up for sale in private auction
Batteries.com is up for auction, the auction will close on Christmas Day. This is quite the promotion with a site at WelcomeToBatteries.com giving potential prospects all the reasons they want to own the domain name. Registration for Batteries.com is 1999, it dropped 3 times previous to that. Escrow.com one of our advertisers here will be one of the escrow service providers on the deal. They … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB Q3 2021 (.Com and .net 172.1 million domain name registrations at the end of the third quarter of 2021)
Verisign (VRSN:NASDAQ) released their Q3 2021, Domain Name Industry Brief EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021.1,2 Domain name registrations have decreased by 6.1 million, or 1.6%, year over … [Read more...]
$295K Buyer of Maxima.com revealed
Maxima.com sold for $295,000 last month. Dubai Domains sold the domain name through BrandBucket. The name previously sold back in 2006 at SnapNames for $16,750. Nissan rolled out the Maxima in 1980 and still produces them today. There is also the Argentinian born Queen of The Netherlands, Queen Máxima. The buyer is Europe's largest Kitchen equipment supplier that operates on … [Read more...]
Microsoft sees blockchain domains as the “next big threat”
Fast Company published an article on blockchain domain names and cited a report from Microsoft on how they are not big fans of these domain names. “The next big threat” is how Microsoft’s latest annual security report characterizes domain names written into a distributed ledger maintained across a constellation of computers instead of stored in a traditional, centralized registry. Storing … [Read more...]
Mike Robertson on Australian radio discussing domain brokerage and Brisbane.com.au
Longtime industry veteran was interviewed on Australian radio. With the 2032 Olympics being held in Brisbane, Mike is brokering Brisbane.com.au First registered in 1993, the domain name is now up for sale. And the price tag for this piece of internet real estate? Over half-a-million dollars. The interviewer also asks Mike about what a domain broker is? He gives a couple stories. Cannot … [Read more...]
Dana White on buying UFC.com
Funny story on UFC.com. Dana White calls the negotiations one of his first business mistakes. He was outraged at paying $15,000 to User Friendly Computers and ended up paying $50,000 to $75,000. It's funny to listen to him speak about how crazy he thought $15K was for a domain name. You have to watch the video on YouTube as the Las Vegas Raiders won't let it be embedded. Tune in at … [Read more...]