Namepros member Fattee77 posted a few minutes ago that AQM.com has been stolen from their Enom account. Looking at Whois History it looks like Faith Turna had the name stolen in January and just noticed now. The name moved from Enom to NameSilo on January 28, 2016. Now the name is at Ename. If someone offers you this name be very leary. Turna looks to have acquired the domain in 2011, it … [Read more...]
Source: .VIP Sold 30,000 Premium Domains Including Google’s Reg of Alphabet.VIP For $10K
A source who has access to such information, has informed TheDomains.com that .VIP sold approximately 30,000 in premium domain names totaling around $1.3 million dollars through the end of its first day of general availability (GA) Premium domain names are those having a higher price than the normal registrations fees than a regular domain registration as set by the registry who sets the … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by Boardroom.com
Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: boardroom.com at 75,000 USD Top ccTLD: itjobs.in at 18,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: tea.world at 5,000 USD After no five figure .com sales last week there were four this week. It was a good … [Read more...]
.Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain names registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with 2,230,709 domains registered. The 5th most registered domain name extension is .XYZ which has 2,768,291 domain names The top four domain … [Read more...]
Warning: With Namejet/Snapnames Joint Backorder You Can Windup Bidding Against Yourself
A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be placed for the deleting domain names on both systems. It makes a lot of sense since saves the effort of putting the same deleting domain names into both systems. The idea is if the domain is caught by one or the other service and there … [Read more...]
Verisign: Landrush for the 1st internationalized version of .Com in Japanese script, .コム is Opened
Verisign today announced the opening of the Landrush Program period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese script, .コム , is open for anyone to register on a first come, first served basis until June 12, 2016. Verisign also announced the launch of the phased rollout of .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) … [Read more...]
.Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th, 2016 that the number of .Com registrations passed 126 million, so .Com added a net of 1 Million domain names in just over 2 months. Out of the 127 million .com domain names, just over 126 million are in the "Active Zone File". 126 million .Com domain names is also an all … [Read more...]