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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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Breaking: .XYZ Passes .Info With Over 5.5 Million Registrations; Now 4th...
The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
This Time Mark Monitor Has to Protect Their Own Intellectual Property
Mark Monitor is usually out there to protect the intellectual interests of their clients. Recently they had to look out for their own ip assets and won a UDRP... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
The Most Expensive Google Adwords in the U.S.
A little over a month ago we posted about the highest paying keywords in the U.K. and how they were dominated by gambling keywords. Here is a look at the most... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Just Released: Searchable Tool To Find Available .XYZ Domains Taken in .Com, .Ne...
The .XYZ registry just released a tool that finds available .XYZ domain names that are registered in .Com, .Net and .Org I’m told the database is over 2... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Uniregistry Selling 12 New gTLD Extensions For $.85 Including .Club, .Top,...
While .XYZ has been make headlines with its tremendous numbers of domain registrations for as low as $.01 at Uniregistry, (as well as other domain registrars fo... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Yahoo Buys The Domain TheVertical.com From Mike Mann
Yahoo has bought the domain name TheVertical.com from Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com The domain name had a buy it now (BIN) price of $15,000. The domain name was... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling Owns 40K+ .XYZ Domains & They Were Registered A While Ago
There were a several comments on our blog posts on .XYZ over the last few days raising the issue of whether Frank Schilling owns . Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
The First Domain Ever Registered at Go Daddy Might Surprise You
Joseph Green did some investigative work and posted his findings about GhettoJustice.com, the first domain registered at upstart Go Daddy. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
NameJet.com Announces Over $1.2 Million in Sales in May
Namejet.com reported $1,274,656.00 in domain name sales in May 2016. Only sales of $2,000 or more are reported and only domains sold and paid for in May are... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
212.com Does Not Sell One Reader Picked This Outcome Standing on 749,999
212.com did not sell on NameJet today, the auction resulted in 0 bids after the backorder period. A reader here picked this exact outcome and wins the $50.... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Over 400,000 .XYZ Domain Names Already Registered Today
I just chatted with the .XYZ registry who told me that over 400,000 .XYZ domain names have been registered today on June 1st as of 1pm EST. Yesterday Uniregistr... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Uniregistry $.01 .XYZ Promotion Gets 12K Registrations in 1st Few Hours
It looks like around 12,000 .XYZ domain names were registered in the first few hours into the $.01 .XYZ domain promotion. According to ntldstats.com, Uniregistr... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million Led by Minpaku.com
Over the past week, 480 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 63% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Quick Poll: How Many .XYZ Domains Are You Going To Register at $.01
Now that Uniregistry announced that it’s offering .XYZ domain name registrations at just one penny now through June 2nd we thought we would run a quick poll to... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Store Passes 500+ Sunrise Registrations With 5 Days to Go
The new gTLD .store which entered the sunrise phase on the 6th of April, is already slated to make its mark in the Top 10 new gTLDs in terms of sunrise... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Cash.us Closes at $20,100 Amid a Ton of .us Expiring Auctions
It was .US day on Go Daddy and there were some interesting closing prices. More than likely all these domains get renewed but it was still an interesting... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Seller of CB.CN Pays 1million Yuan to Buy It Back
Some recent sales reported on by Ename.cn show that CB.cn was bought back by the person who sold the domain last year. The domain was reportedly sold for mid si... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Where Will 212.com Close ? $50 to the Winner
We were running a contest on the 13.co auction and that auction just closed early as the name was renewed. So we are going to still give you a chance to win... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
1st Day .Game Totals: 991 Domains; 337 Premiums @ $1,300 Wholesale
.Game launched into general availability (GA) on Wednesday and received 991 domain name registrations in the 1st 24 hours of registration The wholesale price se... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Report Shows How New gTLDs Are Actually Helping Cyber Criminals
There was a story posted on NakedSecurity.Sophos.com about how the new gtld program has made it easier for cyber criminals to infiltrate and hack entire... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH
