Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 Million 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: lurk.com at 18,000 GBP · Top ccTLD: liberty.ch at 21,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: europe.org at 23,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: Domain … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
.Toys Launches Wed: O.Toys; Educational.Toys; Pool.Toys, Christmas.Toys Already Registered
.Toys which goes into general availability tomorrow Wednesday July 30th A .Toys non-premium domain registration is priced at $39.95 at Godaddy. We went through the zone file for .Toys and found the more interesting domain names taken in Sunrise (for trademark holders) and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where people can get early access to domain names for a one time fee which can … [Read more...]
DomainHoldings.com Reports Amost $10M in Domain Name Sales In Q2
Domain Holdings issued its domain sales report for the second quarter of 2014 reporting almost $10,000,000 USD in sales and a average sale throwing out the 5 highest and lowest sales, the average sales price was $29,019 However if those top 5 domain sales and the bottom 5 sales were included the average price would have been a mind boggling 98,372.00 Some of the main highlights from Q2 … [Read more...]
The Village Voice Covers .NYC: Landrush Auctions Will Be in 5 & 6 Figures
The Village Voice just covered the new .NYC domain names and quotes Gerardo Aristizabal who runs the domain registrar Hello NYC who predicts that Landrush auctions will produce bids at least to the tens of thousands of dollars," "Two or three might reach six figures." The blog post is entitled:"Lost Out on Sex.com? Sex.NYC Will Soon Be Available at a Domain Auction Near You" What isn't … [Read more...]
Key-Systems To Donate 30 Euro For 1st 1,000 .Hiv Domain Registrations
Key-Systems GmbH announced today that it will support the dotHIV initiative with a fundraising for the start of .hiv. The domain registrar will donate 30 Euro to the dotHIV association for each of the first 1,000 .hiv domains that is registered in the first six months after the Sunrise starts via the in-house retail portal domaindiscount24. dotHIV is the initiative behind the charitable top … [Read more...]
Spain Passes The “Google” Tax – How it will work no one is really sure
Spain Passes The Google Tax Spain passed a law that will give Spanish newspaper publishers the right to get paid from any site that links to them with what they deem a " meaningful " description of the content. It is important to note that this law does not apply to all publishers in Spain, only daily newspapers. From QZ.com On July 22 Spain passed a law (link in Spanish) called the canon … [Read more...]
Captain Kirk is not high on the new Celebrity only Facebook App
William Shatner of Star Trek and Priceline fame, is a big social media user, Shatner runs a popular blog on Tumblr and is active in a lot of places. He recently put together a review of the new Facebook Mentions app, our readers probably have not been able to use this app because it is reserved for celebrities and other high-profile members. The IB Times did an article about the new app and … [Read more...]