.Club sold $90,000 in premium domain name sales in February 2016. According to a blog post on it's site, .Club, without any auctions being held during the short month, 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a "very respectable Premium Name Sales total of $89,236.65. This brings the total cumulative premium name sales for .CLUB to $3,629,874.44." "During the month of February 2016 … [Read more...]
The Dropped Domain Name 55588.com Sells For $91,060
The domain name, 55588.com which just dropped a few days ago, just sold at DropCatch.com for $91,060. The domain name was owned by VARTEX Media Marketing GmbH at the German registrar, Vautron Rechenzentrum AG. VARTEX Media Marketing GmbH owned the domain since at least 2007 according to domaintools.com The domain had a creation date of 02-17-2000 according to DomainTools.com, before it … [Read more...]
Are Domains The New Bitcoin?
One of those in the domain industry whose opinion I greatly respect, Alan Dunn, has made a lot of inroads in equating the value of domain names to commodities at least when it come to those "Chinese Domains"; ultra short domains with single, double and triple characters . According to many in the domain space, "Chinese Domains" equate their value to a commodities like Gold, Platinum, Silver, … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com Acquires Code.com
Salesforce.com has acquired yet another great domain name; Code.com The domain name Code.com just updated yesterday to show Salesforce.com as the new owner. The domain was previously owned under privacy at the brand protection company and domain name registrar Safenames which is also the company that Salesforce.com uses. According to Screenshots.com the last time they indexed a site on … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Sells 997.com
Rick Schwartz has sold the three number .Com domain name 997.com for an undisclosed price. Although the price was not disclosed Rick did tell TheDomains.com that the "sale is several times larger than the largest current sale of the year." According to DNjournal.com, the top sale of 2016, as of publication is BGI.com which sold for $235,000. Rick went on to tell me; "The sale will bring … [Read more...]
.Club Sells Over 5,500 Premium Domains In December For Almost $615K
.Club just released it premium sales report for December 2015. On December 16th .Club released 13,000 new premium names to the registrar channel, with many priced at $100 or lower In all, 5,525 premium names were sold in December. Total premium name sales for December, from all sources, came to $614,071.90. Total premium name sales for Q4 2015 came to $2,350,116.47. As of December … [Read more...]
55 Three Letter .Com’s From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China
I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen's Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com's. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored … [Read more...]