Sedo's Great Domains auction ends today and Portugal.com hit $250,000 the low end of the reserve range. $250,000 - $499,999 is pretty wide. The reserve is not met yet and it will be interesting to see if this one can sell. The highest selling country names of all time are England.com at $2M, Russia.com at $1.5m, Britain.com sold for $1m. Singapore.com sold for $800,000, NewZealand.com and … [Read more...]
Dynadot making a change to the way auctions run
Dynadot has sent out an email about an upcoming change to their auction platform. No longer will there be an end time set after 20 bids in the last five minutes. Message We're writing to inform you of an upcoming change to the way auctions run in our Aftermarket. Currently, when a bid is placed in the last 5 minutes of an auction, the auction time is extended for another 5 minutes. This can … [Read more...]
Liquid Market Report for Q3 2021 released
Giuseppe Graziano released his Q3 2021 Liquid Market Report This was a record quarter with over $12M in 2L .com sales. The record in 2L .com sales contributed to make Q3 2021 the best quarter since the inception of the Report in 2016.96% of the sales reported by Escrow.com have taken place in the category with the highest development index, i.e. 2L (30%); 3L .com (24%); 4L (12%), 2C … [Read more...]
Donuts Domain Trend Report: September 2021
Donuts published their September domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. In the month of September 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 24% shorter and were hyphenated 13% less than .com domain registrations. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of September … [Read more...]
DAN.com experiencing continuous heavy DDoS attacks
DAN.com (an advertiser here at TheDomains) tweeted out they are experiencing a larger than normal DDOS attack. They are implementing additional measures to make sure they can deal with the problem. I did log in with no problem and tried some park pages that were working fine. … [Read more...]
ETH was on fire in September (the keyword)
The keyword ETH was absolutely on fire in September. There have been 16 reported ETH exact sales on Namebio and 7 took place in September. Mark Levine sold 4 of them and in extensions you would not necessarily think the keyword and extension match perfectly. Eth.hockey for $3,999 Well done Mark. .Club stole the show at $200,000 and .Website rounded out September selling for $50,000. Back in … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB shows Q2 2021 closed with 367.3m registrations across all TLD’s
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their Q2 2021 Domain Name Industry Brief The second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to the first quarter of 2021.1,2 Domain name registrations have decreased by 2.8 million, or 0.7%, year over year.1,2 .Com and .Net … [Read more...]