I just got a renewal bill from my registrar, Hexonet on some Minds + Machines domain names I registered last year at normal registration prices. I have spent well into the six figures on new gTLD's, so I put my money at risk all the time in the very speculative new gTLD space. In this case there was an issue with the pricing sent over by the registry Minds + Machines to my registrar, … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million led by v68.com at $44,000
Sedo had 615 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: v68.com at 44,000 USD Top ccTLD: tutu.de at 6,800 EUR Top “other” TLD: tgl.net at 10,000 EUR New Gtld sales: sportsbetting.tips 4,700 EUR com.ink 1,250 … [Read more...]
Did You Know That New gTLD’s .Men: & .Lotto Launched & .Game Got Delayed?
I read Andrew's post yesterday on DomainNameWire.com, about new gTLD extensions launching this week; Tickets, .Rent and .Courses. I realized that a couple of other strings launched in the last couple of weeks that basically went unnoticed by the domain blogger community. .Lotto was launched by Afilias, at 101domain.com a .Lotto registration, not a premium but any .Lotto registration will … [Read more...]
JC.com, KC.com and MW.com 2 Letter Domain Names All Sell
It seems I have been reporting A LOT lately on 2 letter .com domain name sales and today is no different with 3 more changing ownership. A couple of things to keep in mind: There are only 676, 2 letter .com domain names Minimum wholesale IMO is riding about $600,000 USD based on a couple recent sales around that price point BrokerageFirm.com who I personally do not know much about … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss
Minds + Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) reported today the company's financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 "due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions" Minds + Machines reported a pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Bows.com, Guest.com, PetBasics.com & More Domains
Welcome to Domain Movers! This exclusive, exciting series highlights domain names recently acquired, registered and simply moving by large corporations. These are often early finds and often lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products services and more. Here we go with the latest Domain Movers: A currently unknown MarkMonitor client using generic whois data registered several … [Read more...]
The Domain Name 588.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars
The domain name 588.com has sold for $1 Million dollars. The domain sale comes on the heals of Rick Schwartz announced sale of 899.com last week for $801,000 and the sale earlier this year of 345.com at $800,000 by our company MostWantedDomains.com The sale of 588.com was brokered by Goldenname.com (4.CN) The domain was in pending transfer status on August 19th and transferred to the … [Read more...]