Everyone loves to hear a great domain name sale story. Everyone loves to tell one as well. We don't get many stories where the person admits to an experiment costing them a six figure loss. Shifang Yuan from Yuming.com tweeted about an experiment with LLL.io domain names. Luckily for Shifang he owns 10 LL.coms and 50 LLL.com. Plus the domain name Yuming.com is very valuable. … [Read more...]
Some Australian researchers want to see .CC taken away from Verisign
Like .com, .net and .tv, Verisign is the registry provider for .cc, the country code for Cocos (Keeling) Islands. This is an Australian territory. So TheGuardian published an article today from Josh Taylor with the headline, "Australia urged to take control of Cocos .cc internet domain to foil scammers and child abuse sites". Interestingly one of the researchers said, “It’s also very short … [Read more...]
Be careful bidding on Vegan.com
Vegan.com is listed for sale (private seller) at NameJet. @Frans over at Namepros said he spoke to the owner and it has been listed fraudulently. Frans wrote: Vegan (dot) com has been added in auction with a very low reserve ($5k - $10k) on NameJet.Just spoke with the owner via his old WHOIS email (e/r/i/k/@ vegan (dot) com), and he says it is NOT for sale and has been "fraudulently added". … [Read more...]
Donuts Domain Trend Report: May 2021
Donuts published their May domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. In the month of May 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 22% shorter and were hyphenated 1% less than .com domain registrations. Top 20 Premium Domains Registered In The Month of May … [Read more...]
Who is the greatest domain name investor of all time (2021 edition)
It's been 7 years since we did a poll on the greatest domain name investor of all time. Frank Schilling won back in 2014. Over the last 7 years many new investors have come into the business. Some investors might be perceived differently today than during the last poll, so here is the 2021 poll. Sometimes people ask what is meant? Like so and so might not have made as much money but they … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by PTSD.org
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and PTSD.org led the way at $50,000. I remember Shane Bellone owned it and mentioned it on Namepros, I don't know if he was the seller. wilhelmus.nl was second at 30,000 Euro, ($36,691). AMQ.com was tied with ImToken.cn for third at $30,000. 32 .com sales 25 cctld sales 11 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: … [Read more...]
Guta.com Q1 2021 premium domain sales observation report
The folks over at Guta.com published their Q1 2021 premium domain sales observation report. The report primarily focuses on domain sales in the following categories: 1-4 Numbers, 1-3 Letters, 2Characters, and English dictionary one-word .com domains. Of interest to me in the report was the breakdown of one word .com sales. A total of 78 one-word English .com domain sales were completed in … [Read more...]
