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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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Here is How To Bid in The Live Namescon/ RightoftheDot.com Auction
I understand this might be a little confusing but I’m trying to lay out how you can bid on the domain names in the RightoftheDot. Read more
Posted on 07 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICM Releases 2 Character Domains In .XXX
ICM Registry, the registry operator for .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX, announces the launch of 2 character domains in .XXX. The press release also came with a... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Ski Registry Removes All Reserves From The ROTD/Namescon Auction
The .Ski registry, which has some great one letter domain names like i.ski an e.ski and some natural hacks like water.ski and jet.ski has removed all reserve... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Norwegian Paper Covers BY.com In Namescon Auction: Now Has $602K Pre-bid
Verdens Gang whose website is VG.no a Norwegian tabloid newspaper and was the second largest newspaper in Norway just published a story about By.com which is... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions for Two Weeks Total Just $2 Million; 56% Are BIN
Sedo reported 648 transactions for the past two weeks totaling $2 Million Dollars 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Going forward Sedo is... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rightside Adds Short New gTLD’s With Normal Renewals To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Rightside® (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that it will be participating in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference tha... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time
According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Efty Launches For-Sale Landing Page Theme Gallery
Leading domain name management and investment platform Efty announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind service, offering a For-Sale landing page... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million In Sales
Namejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
1st Reverse Domain Hijacking Finding of The Year & Bretzel Ditsch GmbH Of German...
Bretzel Ditsch GmbH from Mainz, Germany, represented by Horak Attorneys, Germany was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Reserve Dropped On 8 Domains In The ROTD Auction: All Have Bids, Which Are Now...
We have more news on the RightoftheDot.com auction being held a week from today at Namescon at 2PM PST. An owner of 8 domain names in the auction, all of which... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
We Are Sorry To Report That Domain Investor Anthony J. McDermott Passed Away
Unfortunately the new year has started out with some very bad news as we learned that Anthony McDermott, who was a domain investor and one of the early leaders... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Quick Poll: How Many .Com’s Will Be Registered By 1/1/17?
So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com
Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reportin... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Happy New Year
Everyone here at TheDomains.com would like to wish you a Happy and healthy new year. Things will be changing around here, after 8 years Michael will be able to... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
15 Year Old Domain StinkySocks.com Saved In UDRP
The Trimount Company, Inc DBA StinkySocks Hockey (“Complainant”), of Massachusetts, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name stinkysocks. Read more
Posted on 30 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Owner of MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com Wants “$2 Million At Least”
Back in August we wrote about the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com which is has become Donald Trump’s famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run. Read more
Posted on 30 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tuscany.com; Erotica.com; Penis.com Added At No Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Some amazing domain names were added to the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon late last week all at NO Reserve by CheapDomains.com,... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Buys More “Letter” .Com’s: Now Owns 19 of Them; Maybe Only 6 Left
Google bought several more “letter”.com’s yesterday picking up abcdefghijkl.com abcdefghijklm.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy.com All registered in 2004. Since... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
The ROTD Domain Auction At Namescon Tops $5.5 Million In Bids
The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction being held live/online on January 11, 2016 has now topped $5.5 Million in Pre-bidding on Namejet. Read more
Posted on 24 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
