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2020 Reported Country code sales up over 20% compared to 2019

January 4, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Reported Country code sales in 2020 were up over 20% in 2020 compared to 2019. There were 7,648 Total Sales vs 6,249 in 2019. $12.8m in dollar volume vs $10.5m in 2019. Average selling price per domain name was almost unchanged, $1,677 vs $1,681. There were six 6 figure sales in 2020 vs three in 2019. Sedo remains the leader in country code sales. They accounted for $6.9m of the $12.8m in … [Read more...]

Niue wants .nu redelegated

December 16, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Niue wants it's country code back! This is not something new as I have written before about how countries view their country code as a natural resource and want to control their own digital identity. Back in February Wired wrote a piece on several small countries and their fight to be in control of their cctld. Ending what they deem a digital colonization. The Chagossians want .io back as I … [Read more...]

Reported cctld sales in 2020 higher in 10 months than 2019 and 2018 full year

October 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

October is winding down and there are two full months left in 2020. When we look at reported country code domain name sales, they have already surpassed 2019 and 2018 full year sales. 2020 sales are 6,344 sales for $10.5 million vs 2019 full year sales of 6,249 sales for $10.5 million. The country codes fueling the sales are the usual suspects. .Co.uk, .de, .co, .io and .ai. .Co.uk has … [Read more...]

.LU to open up 1 and 2 character domain registrations

September 4, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

The registry for .LU the country code of Luxembourg announced they will be opening up registrations for 1 and 2 character .LU domain names. The end of 20 years of non-availability. From the release: From 31 August to 15 December 2020, through its DNS-LU service operating the national registry for .lu, the Restena Foundation is progressively opening the registration of .lu domain names with … [Read more...]

Think.ai leads monthly .Ai auction results

May 4, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Whois.Ai completed their monthly auctions and Think.ai topped the list again, it was auctioned last month but was not paid for in the allotted time. This how things work with .Ai auctions. https://whois.ai/auctionfaq.htmlAnyone who makes a login on auction.whois.ai and deposits $100 can bid. If they win an auction and do not pay the full amount they will forfeit the $100 and the domain will … [Read more...]

Will you be investing in .uk domains?

July 1, 2019 by Raymond Hackney

I have been getting emails every couple days about the release of 1.8 million .uk names. The website TheUKdomain.UK has laid out the plan for acquiring these names. Starting from 1 July 2019, any previously reserved .uk domains that have not been registered will be available on a first-come, first served basis in a two stage process:Stage OneA release process, running from the 1st to the … [Read more...]

Bad.de sells for $138,443

September 6, 2018 by Raymond Hackney

The 25th highest .de sale of all time took place on Wednesday. Bad.de sold on Sedo for $138,443. Currently the domain does not resolve to a website. Here is the top 25 courtesy of Namebio kredit.de 1,169,175 USD 2008-12-02 Sedo poker.de 957,937 USD 2007-07-24 NICIT/DOMAINfest aktien.de 725,000 USD 2011-08-03 Sedo casino.de 625,060 … [Read more...]

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