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• New York Times Covers the .Ai Extension

  Steve Lohr of the New York Times published a piece on the .AI extension. .Ai has become a windfall for Anguilla. It was once just a side job for the man... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICYMI: January 2020 – Top Stories

  The top posts of January 2020 on TheDomains January saw Rat.com launch, Adam Dicker back out of an appearance on You Tube and the NamesCon Live Auction. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Report: 28.99% of Domains Are Re-registered by Other Users

  

  Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Add.com Sells for $800,000 to Lead NamesCon Live Auction

  

  Add.com stole the show at NamesCon live auction. The name sold for $800,000. Offices.com sold for $260,000. The two LL.coms did not meet reserve. 74 out of 136... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Elon Musk Talks About the 10 Years and $10 Million to Get Tesla.com

  

  On the Third Row Tesla Podcast Elon Musk talks about the 10 year effort to buy Tesla.com. He mentioned the trademark for $75,000 buying the domain was a whole... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• TheMortgage.com from $500,000 to $15,050

  

  Handshake icon One of yesterday’s biggest sales reported by Namebio was TheMortgage.com. The domain name sold for $15,050 but in 2000 the name sold for $500,000... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• DNForum Picks up Epik as a Sponsor Opens up Marketplace

  

  DNForum sent out some news this morning they are opening their marketplace for free users and they picked up Epik as a sponsor. There is $25 worth of credit at... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• 15 NFL Teams Have Had Their Twitter Account Hacked

  

  Welcome to Super Bowl Week! It looks like 15 NFL teams have had their Twitter accounts hacked. @MySportsUpdate broke the news. Reading the last tweet from... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Xiaomi Founder, on the Importance of a Domain Name

  

  Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Lox posted a link to a video of the founder of... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• “Domain Trading Can Be the Most Rewarding Hobby and a Fantastic Business If You...

  

  Nic.at published a look at domain name trading and referenced some words of wisdom from Rick Schwartz and contrasted them with a new trader starting out, Niels... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Radix Finished 2019 with $3M in Premium Revenue

  

  Radix an advertiser here released sales data for the second half of 2019. $1.67M in revenue; 22% growth over H1 2019 which was at $1.36M Closed 2019 at $3M in... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• GolfBet.com Sells for $100,000

  

  Pierluigi Buccioli on LinkedIn describes himself as a Gambling Domains Collector, Online Entrepreneur. He announced he sold GolfBet. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• DAN Introduces a New Markup Model

  

  DAN (an advertiser on TheDomains.com) announced a new lease to own option. Everything is spelled out in a post on Medium. Introducing a new markup model Our... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Rat.com Launches

  

  A member on Namepros posted the launch of their new project on Rat.com. The service will charge users $2.99 a month for an ad free experience. Rat. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by Meals2Go.com

  Sedo released their weekly sales and Meals2Go.com led the way at $44,200. 265.cc was second at $25,000. Asia.Casino sold for $10,000. 43 .com sales 19 cctld... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domaining.com Launches Monthly Brokerage Newsletter

  

  Francois at Domaining.com is rolling out a monthly newsletter for Domain Brokerages. Good idea not everyone in the business is in touch with all the brokerages... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Who Would You Choose?

  

  Someone posed this question to me yesterday, “If you could only list at one aftermarket marketplace which would it be?” In this hypothetical the exclusivity tha... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Trends of Future Passed

  

  Looking back of past “future” trends Many domain investors stake their claim in the areas of future trends and technologies. Whether it be vr, ar, ai, autonomou... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Reported Domain Sales 2019 Vs 2018 GoDaddy up – Sedo and Park.io Down

  

  Now that all the reported sales data for 2019 is in, it looks like 2019 reported sales for GoDaddy were up big in 2019 vs 2018. Sedo on the other hand saw... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH

• Online.Casino the Largest Reported New Gtld Sale of All Time is Now Live

  

  On June 12, 2018 Donuts announced the largest reported new gtld sale. The registry sold Online.Casino for $510,000. A year later Marek from Brands. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2020 BUSINESS, TECH