GALILEO.NET sold for $50,000 today at Afternic, the domain name had just been acquired in an expiry auction at GoDaddy for $4,050. Galileo.net was registered back in 1997 and had an Italian registrant for many years. It was registered at Tucows. It expired and moved to GoDaddy a little over a month ago. The nameservers changed to UniregistryMarket.link. They now have changed to Cloudflare … [Read more...]
A look at the top 10 .net sales and where they are today
.Net is next up in our series of taking a look at the Non coms. Checking in on where the top 10 biggest sales in the extension are up to lately. ( Sales data courtesy of Namebio). .Net has only had one of it's top 10 all time sales take place in the last 3 years. mobile.net500,000 USD2014-04-16Uniregistrysex.net454,500 USD2006-05-19T.R.A.F.F.I.C.porn.net400,000 … [Read more...]
Some chin music for Baseball.net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYlB623VnJI Baseball.net struck out, after selling for $52,500 at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in 2008, the domain sold on Flippa for $15,100. Over at Namepros Kate said, This is what happens when domainers buy at end user price, hoping to flip for a profit ? That price felt like an end user price back in 2008 and hopes for a flip were very ambitious if that … [Read more...]
Verisign: The Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations in December
Verisign published their Monthly Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations. Here they are for December 2016: .COM .NET amazon near lawn custom fake control sold core broken lock bone loans museum creek certified indian puppy adult member block Here is how the report is explained by … [Read more...]
3,500 Trump .Com & .Net Domains Registered in Last 48 Hours
According to Verisign, the registry for the .Com and .Net domain names, since election day November 8th almost 3,200 .Com and 330 .net domains containing the word Trump have been registered. A lot of domains already are calling for Trump's impeachment, some are boring on criminal as threatening the President elect with violence; some are already indicating the next grounds for protest; some … [Read more...]
.Net Domain Registrations Cross The 16 Million Mark For The 1st Time
The number of domain name registrations ending in .Net crossed the 16 million mark for the first time today according to Verisign. According to Verisign the number of .Net domain names is 16,004,860. This all time high is despite over 1,000 new domain extensions being released over the last 2+ year and the fact that a .net domain name wholesale cost now just slightly lower than … [Read more...]
The Internet Commerce Association’s Comment To ICANN Over Verisign Contract
The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) has filed a comment with ICANN over the proposed Verisign Contract which would start in 2018. The comment period is opened until midnight tonight UTC and you should file a comment if you have an opinion. In full disclosure my Company Worldwide Media, Inc, is a Gold member of the ICA The comment was filed by Philip S. Corwin Re: Public … [Read more...]