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
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
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?
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
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...]
Facebook launches gaming portal on FB.GG
Facebook launched their gaming creator portal on a .GG domain. The country code for Guernsey has become popular for esports. Facebook is using the domain name FB.GG. Some background: Wikipedia info .gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey, including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou (plus several uninhabited islands and … [Read more...]
Red.ca sells for $20,000
Namepros member MapleDots reported that they purchased the premium one word domain Red.ca for $20,000. MapleDots said they will be re-branding the domain as a Canadian Domain Re-seller. This would be a top 50 all time sale in .ca according to Namebio. Red.com manufactures digital cinematography and photography cameras and accessories. Congrats to both the buyer and seller. … [Read more...]