Mike Mann turned three very recent $20 purchases into $41,776. He tweeted within the last hour. Things to do near me: sell domains I bought in the last month. Sold https://t.co/eoKFGcM8Va $2888. Purch 06/22/17 $20 — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) July 13, 2017 Wave of wholesale deals, sold https://t.co/xFn04U98nn $10,000. Purch 7/10/17 $20 — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) July 13, … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
Covfefe.com would you have taken $15,000?
I have written before about striking while the iron is hot on pop culture and political domain names. Back in April we detailed the Shane Burchett the owner of TrumpPence2016.com, you can read the full story here, but the gist of the story is the registrant thought he could possibly see six figures for the name and currently still owns it. It's 2017 no one cares anymore, the election is … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by AcaiBerry.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and AcaiBerry.com led the way at $18,000. BuTV.com was the second highest sale, LLtv is a niche I have traded in for a long time, I kinda stopped focusing on them over the last year. Nice to see a $15,000 sale. Very light sales in cctld and other new gtlds. No new gtld sales this week. Domain … [Read more...]
GDS awards most popular new gTLDs of China
.Shop (an advertiser on TheDomains) was one of the new gtlds that won most popular new gtld of China at the Global Domain Summit. Proud to bring home the "The most popular new gTLD of China" award from @gdschina What an honor - thank you! #GDS pic.twitter.com/QG7JWNSZYq — .shop TopLevelDomain (@shoptld) July 11, 2017 Another sponsor of ours Radix won for .online. The other winners … [Read more...]
Taking over four of the seven authoritative nameservers for the .io TLD
Matthew Bryant @IAmMandatory of TheHackerBlog.com wrote a very detailed post on how he was able to register domains in .io that would essentially allow him to take over authoritative nameservers for the .io cctld. It's a very interesting post and shows many registries need to beef up their security protocols. From the article: Impact Given the fact that we were able to take over four of … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Health Ends Sunrise Period With 287 Registrations
The .health registry ended their 60-day Sunrise period on Friday, June 7th, with a total of 287 total applications, none of which were in contention, so there will be no sunrise auctions for .health. All domains will be provisioned on Monday evening, July 10th. Jose Rasco, CEO of dotHealth said: “As an extension, we are focused on building a meaningful space. Combined with the fact that … [Read more...]
Domain Research Group takes a look at emoji domains in .com
Domain Research Group the people behind I❤️.ws, was nice enough to go through the .com zone file and identify all the emoji names that exist in .com. There are 233 in total, (currently emojis are unable to be registered in gtlds like com,net and org). We’re defining “emoji” very loosely here… it’s more interesting to see the wider array of weird characters in dotcom domains than to get too … [Read more...]