Radix released their H1 2024 Premium Domains Report. It was their best half year ever. You can read the full glossy report here … [Read more...]
MMX.co former Minds + Machines left to expire
Minds + Machines acquired MMX.co back in 2015 for $2,200 at Sedo. The company sold its internet top-level domain assets to GoDaddy for a total consideration of US$120mln in cash back in 2020. The domain name expired and closed at $8,400 at GoDaddy auctions. According to Ahrefs the domain name has a Domain Rating of 74. 81,000 backlinks and 441 linking websites. It will be interesting to see … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Crypto.co.uk
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Crypto.co.uk led the way at 100,000 GBP, ($130,441) to be fair when it was announced it was roughly $127,500 on conversion. MyNames.com was the top .com sale at 15,000 Euro, ($16,672). 27 .com sales 15 cctld sales No other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
DNWE Scavenger Hunt – DEAL or no DEAL now open
The Deal or No Deal finale is now open at DNWE.com you have a chance to win a domain names, sell it, swap it for the mystery domain. If you are randomly selected as the winner the choice is yours. Ryan Ewen did a good job with this one and it's nice to see a contest where there is a prize that everyone will enjoy. Go here to play … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by UpSign.com
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and UpSign.com led the way at 55,000 Euro, ($60,278). Sorteos.com was second at 50,000 Euro, ($54,805). Arcs.com sold for $30,000. iPL.net sold for $27,000. Baddie.com sold for $21,000. 34 .com sales 20 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
TechCrunch: “Maybe Friend wasn’t crazy for spending $1.8M on a domain after all”
Friend.com was in the news at the end of July. Avi Schiffmann posted on X that the company purchased Friend.com for $1.88M on a payment plan. Some thought it was crazy to spend that much and voiced their outrage on X. TechCrunch published an article on the purchase and went deeper into branding and domain names. The first thing I found interesting was that Avi Schiffmann, the founder and CEO … [Read more...]
GNAME has some auction features that other places should emulate
When talking about how to stop game playing at auctions, someone suggested to me that it would be great if you could make bidders have money in the account and freeze a percentage. Well it turns out GNAME does do that. When you look at their auction terms they note, 1. A 20% deposit of the bid amount will be temporarily frozen in your account and will be unfrozen when your bid is exceeded … [Read more...]