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• 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

• Dot Space Reaches the 100,000 Registration Mark

  Dot Space becomes the next Radix extension to reach the 100,000 registration milestone. Consistently in the Top 10 fastest growing gTLDs in registration and... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 Million Led by V5.com

  Over the past week, 580 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Adds Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com to Its Collection Of Alphabet Domains

  The Giardino Law Firm, Inc Google has just added another “Alphabet” domain name to its collection buying the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Did the Other Shoe Just Drop? Chinese Are Buying English Word Domains Too

  Raymond published a post today on TheDomains.com, on the sales report from the first ever live domain auction at the Chinese Domain Festival and China Digital... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Chinese Live Auction Nets Over 150 Million RMB ($23.1 Mil)

  The first ever Chinese Domain Festival and China Digital Asset Investment Summit live auction concluded with 150 million RMB in sales. The full list is below... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Digital Media is on Track to Overtake Television

  Barron’s took a look at advertising for 2016, while 2016 is projected to be stronger than 2015 it could come in below initial expectations. Traditional ad... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Has Watched Buy It Now Go from 2% to 56%

  

  Sedo put together a graphic in their latest newsletter that chronicled buy it now sales. 2008 saw buy it now at just 2% now they are at 56% with numbers over 65... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get’s $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner

  The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference. The domain name already... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations Have Grown by 14.8 Million, Or 5.2 Percent,...

  Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out

  Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before the... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BUSINESS, TECH