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...]
SPCM.com sold for $49,950 The beauty of finding a buyer with deep pockets
Mike Mann announced the sale of SPCM.com Purchased 10/9/12 $409, and sold for $49,950. Newer domain name investors think, wow, why? Just a chip, not pronounceable. None of that matters when you have all the most important domain dynamic in place, a deep pocketed buyer with a real name for those four letters. The buyer is ORIX Corporation, listed on the New York (NYSE:IX) Stock … [Read more...]
Jerrick.media changing name to Creatd. The .com looks to have sold on Brandpa
Jerrick.media is rebranding to Creatd. The company looks to have purchased the domain name Creatd.com from Brandpa. The name was listed at BrandBucket for $2,395 as seen here on DNBolt.com. Jerrick is the owner of Vocal.media “650,000 creators who have published over 150 million words, which has been attributed to over 400 million minutes of people reading stories on Vocal.” They are … [Read more...]
Verisign 2020 Q2 DNIB shows an increases of 3.3 million domain name registrations
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their second quarter Domain Name Industry Brief. Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020. Domain name registrations have grown by 15.3 … [Read more...]
Blogspot.in a name that Google allowed it’s registration to lapse, sells for $5,999 at Sedo
Back in June Google lost control of the Blogspot.in domain name. It was reported about in many tech blogs and publications. This error on Google's part caused millions of blogs to break 9to5 Google reported Spotted by The Next Web and BleepingComputer, Google apparently let the blogspot.in domain lapse in early June, with Google no longer in control of that domain. Rather, it’s now being … [Read more...]
Hola.me a waste of $8,500
Hola.me was sold at Sedo for $8,500 in 2018. It was the third highest .me sale of 2018. The domain name had just been listed for sale on a proprietary landing page. After it sold it just showed a Domain Agents landing page that the domain name was for sale. Source. The domain name dropped and went for $630 at Park.io. Nous.org was purchased for $4,088 at Afternic, the same day the .net … [Read more...]
“0.35% of name servers are responsible for 90% of all domain names”
Chris Duckett published an interesting article over at ZDNet on just how few name servers are responsible for the majority of domain names. The article illustrates the potential problems for outages as many opt for a convenient cloud based solution vs your own server. Sans Institute dean of research Johannes Ullrich looked into how many of the world's 2.7 million authoritative name servers it … [Read more...]