NameJet/SnapNames reported their October domain name sales, Tesoro.com was the top sale at $91,000. Tesoro was a stock I traded a lot back in the 90's when I was a stock broker. It was acquired by Marathon Petroleum and renamed Andeavor NameJet Domain Name Brand Product Gross … [Read more...]
James Booth is a bit miffed by those shitting on the .ai extension
James Booth has had a lot of success with the .ai extension, including announcing a $100K sale of CloudX.ai on Atom yesterday. In a post on X James wrote: The amount of people fading .ai truly blows my mind. You have so many top domain investors shitting on the extension when countless others are making a killing. Look at any place that shows recent funding for the last 1,000 raises and … [Read more...]
Sedo could soon have a new owner
Ionos reported earnings and dropped a bit of info that will be of interest to domain investors. They are putting the AdTech unit up for sale. This includes Sedo. From the release: The Management Board of IONOS Group SE has decided to put Sedo GmbH, and thus the “AdTech” segment, up for sale and to focus entirely on the core business areas of “Web Presence & Productivity” and “Cloud … [Read more...]
NamesCon live auction is still running
The live event saw active global participation and strong bidding across all categories, highlighted by the $3.1 million sale of Omegle.com, one of the top domain transactions of the year. The extended auction includes hundreds of premium domains that either came within a single bid of reserve during the live sale or were not previously offered in Miami. This is a great opportunity for … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by LW.org
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and LW.org led the way at $95,000. Ado.ai was second at $75,000. The top selling .com was Bilingue.com at 30,000 Eur, ($34,798). 48 .com sales 21 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz is not pleased with how Dynadot handles non paying auction winners
Rick Schwartz has gone public on LinkedIn about an auction issue he had with Dynadot. Many in the business including myself have written about this before. How does a marketplace handle non paying bidders? Some reauction, others offer it to the second highest bidder but leave the fraudulent winning bidder's bids. A few will remove all their bids. Rick was in the auction for CoinBook.com and here … [Read more...]
Sedo sales report led by Superbridge.com
Sedo provided us with an update that the report from yesterday was outdated, so here is the report for this week. Superbridge.com sold for $61,500 to lead all domain sales. 47 .com sales 24 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]