Sedo reported 648 transactions for the past two weeks totaling $2 Million Dollars 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Going forward Sedo is following Namejet.com and only reporting sales of 2K or more in any currency. The highest sale of the two weeks goes to Need.me which sold for $25,000 Highlights of public sales were: · Top .com: niuguanjia.com at 10,000 … [Read more...]
Rightside Adds Short New gTLD’s With Normal Renewals To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Rightside® (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that it will be participating in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference that will be held next Monday, January 11th at 2PM EST. All domain names carry a normal renewal fee for the relevant extension, None carry a premium renewal fee. In keeping with the recent boom of 1, 2, and 3-character second-level domain … [Read more...]
Efty Launches For-Sale Landing Page Theme Gallery
Leading domain name management and investment platform Efty announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind service, offering a For-Sale landing page theme gallery for domain owners using the software. The theme gallery, which launched earlier today with five designs, allows domain name investors to host a selection of top-notch For-Sale landing pages that have been fashioned for … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million In Sales
Namejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking month of November, 2015. Namejet only reports on sales of $2,000 or more. 23 of the top 40 domain names were for three letter .com (LLL.com) domains, of the remaining 17 domains in the top 40, 5 were two letter .net domains (LL.net) and … [Read more...]
We Are Sorry To Report That Domain Investor Anthony J. McDermott Passed Away
Unfortunately the new year has started out with some very bad news as we learned that Anthony McDermott, who was a domain investor and one of the early leaders in the legal internet vertical passed away on December 23rd, 2015 Anthony was the founder and president of SWI Digital, Inc., "a Full Service Multimedia and Lead Generation Company primarily focused in the legal space. At the time I … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many .Com’s Will Be Registered By 1/1/17?
So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names. So the number of .Com's increased some 7 Million in 2015 or over 7%. The question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? This year we all know we had a short period of … [Read more...]
Google Buys More “Letter” .Com’s: Now owns 19 of Them; Maybe only 6 Left
Google bought several more "letter".com's yesterday picking up abcdefghijkl.com abcdefghijklm.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy.com All registered in 2004. Since turning the domain world on its head buying abc.xyz Google now … [Read more...]