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 leading provider of secure online payments, today … [Read more...]
Escrow.com releases their Domain Investment Index for Q2 2023
Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index for Q2, 2023. They started out with their executive summary stating the following: Total domain name volume on Escrow.com eased from $129.8M in 1Q23 down to $89M. Overall, 2Q23 has less mega domains in comparison to the previous quarter. Volume is slowly picking back up after the recently held Namescon event at the beginning of … [Read more...]
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023, total volume at its highest since Q2 2022
Escrow.com (an advertiser here) published their Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023. Some highlights included a 61.6% increase in total domain sales vs Q4 2022. The median price of two and three letter .com domains had a slight increase from $45k to $52k in 1Q23. They wrote: Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023, reporting a 61.6% increase in total domain name volume, growing from $80.3M … [Read more...]
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index Q4 2022
Escrow.com published their Domain Investment Index for Q4 2022. You can view the full report here. Year-on-year, Escrow has seen a 49.26% decrease in the total value of domain name transactions from $158M in 4Q21 to $80M in 4Q22. Over 75% of the fall in 4Q22 is attributable to the decrease in the volume of domain name transactions, which decreased by 20% from US$514M in FY21, to $411M … [Read more...]
What is a fair sales commission rate?
I am sure just about everyone is familiar with the sales commission changes coming across all GoDaddy properties, (GoDaddy.com, Afternic, DAN.com and Uniregistry). For those not familiar, To simplify commissions, effective Feb. 1, 2023, each marketplace is moving to a 15% commission rate for domain names pointed to Afternic, Dan, or Uniregistry nameservers at the time of the sale. If your … [Read more...]
Escrow.com releases their top 10 highest grossing brokers of 2021
Escrow.com released their Master of Domains, the top 10 highest-grossing domain name brokers of the year. All familiar and well deserved names on the list. Andrew Rosener took the top spot, congrats to him and everyone else on the list. Check out the Master of Domains series. Escrow.com announcement: The 2021 winners have proven themselves to be experts in the field of domain name … [Read more...]
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index Q3 2022
Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index for Q3 2022. Data from the report shows: Domain name sales saw a 28% decrease in total transactions in 3Q22, dropping from $105M in 3Q21 to $75M, domain name sales have increased by 8%, from $449M in 2021 to $489M in 2022, trailing twelve months up to September this year. That being said, domain name sales through Escrow.com have also seen … [Read more...]