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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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Namecheap Ended 2024 at $398m in Revenue
Richard Kirkendall posted on X that Namecheap fell just shy of $400M in revenue for 2024. This is Namecheap and Spaceship. He added that this was 18% year over... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Domain Name Sales Led by Pack.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Pack.com led the way at $600,000. 1Feed.com was second at $30,000. Awake.de was third at 18,000 Euro, ($18,720)... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
NameJet/SnapNames November 2024 Domain Sales Led by Seniors.org
NameJet/SnapNames released their November 2024 Aftermarket report NameJet saw an 139% increase in revenue at $252.1K MoM. SnapNames slowed in November on units... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
NameJet/SnapNames December Domain Sales Led by YPR.com
NameJet/SnapNames aftermarket report is out for December 2024 December: NameJet saw a 52% increase in units but was down in revenue MoM. SnapNames saw a 118%... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Domain Name Sales Led by Searchers.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Searchers.com led the way at 25,000 GBP, ($30,487). QTV.com sold for $22,000 I once contemplated acquiring... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google’s Share of Global Search Dips Below 90% for First Time in a Decade
At the end of the year I was reading an article from Frank Palermo of CmsWire.com on whether AI powered search engines will disrupt traditional search? Frank... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
Interview with Sam Dennis of DomainEasy
DomainEasy launched their domain sales platform in 2024. Sam Dennis the founder of DomainEasy took some time to answer a few questions in the interview below. Read more
Posted on 09 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
Liquid Market Report for Q4 2024
Giuseppe Graziano released the Q4 2024 Liquid Market Report. It was a solid quarter for sales at Escrow.com as they up were up big time in the quarter. 5N. Read more
Posted on 09 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Releases Three Weeks of Domain Name Sales Led by Betz.com
Sedo is back from the holidays and released three weeks of sales data. A lot of nice sales including Betz.com for $240,000, PayCard.com at $100,000, Advice.ai a... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
2024 Was a Good Year to Be a GoDaddy Shareholder
2024 saw a lot of changes and new features for domain investors using GoDaddy and their associated properties, (DAN, Afternic) DAN said goodbye and Afternic gav... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
RWA.art Sells for $20,000
The last day of 2024 has been a great day for new gtlds. From People.love to Newton.xyz the last sale of 2024 looks to be RWA.art which was sold for $20,000 at... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2025 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Taking Most of Domain Owners Parking Revenue Google Might Be Coming for...
Roger Montti published a very interesting article tonight on Google and it’s Gemini Deep Research. The article is a real wake up call if you run a website and... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Search Engine Land’s Top 15 SEO Stories of 2024
SearchEngineLand.com published their 15 top stories for SEO in 2024. The two I was most interested in were number 8 and number 10. Organic traffic dropping by... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Custom Checkout Link Moves to GoDaddy URLs
James Iles announced today that the custom checkout link at Afternic is moving to a GoDaddy url. I think that makes sense, the world knows GoDaddy, domain... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Green.earth Sold for 82,000 Euro
Phil Harris informed me that Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro. This was not a one time payment. The final 12k euro payment they paid the last 6 months early to... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Finding Trending Domain Keywords and Using Them to Search for Deals on...
GoDaddy released a video to help find keywords that are trending and take the info and use it to search for names on Afternic. You do need to have a Domain... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Unstoppable Domains Launches Direct Negotiations
I think it’s safe to say Unstoppable Domains is one of the new players that’s looking to be the new DAN. They are now giving customers complete control over... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Domain Name Sales Led by MindSprint.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and MindSprint.com led the way at $150,000. CoMind.com sold for 59,000 Euro, ($61,949). Space.co.uk sold for... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
TheDomains.com Turns 17
TheDomains.com turned 17 this month, it was back in 2007 when Michael Berkens decided to throw his hat in the blog arena. Michael started buying domains a decad... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rick Schwartz $1.225M Lease with Option Deal on HurricaneDamages.com
Rick Schwartz posted on X that he booked a 7 figure lease with option deal on HurricaneDamages.com. Rick’s X is private so not as many people see his posts. Read more
Posted on 12 December 2024 BUSINESS, TECH
