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...]
Reserve Dropped On 8 Domains In The ROTD Auction: All Have Bids, Which Are Now The High Bid
We have more news on the RightoftheDot.com auction being held a week from today at Namescon at 2PM PST. An owner of 8 domain names in the auction, all of which already have bids in pre-bidding at Namejet.com has removed the reserve price. By removing the reserve prices, the domains are being offered at NO Reserve. Since all of the domain name have bids and the reserves have removed, the … [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 Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com
Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, Inc has been acquiring all letter of the Alphabet they could get and now owns 20 of the possible 26 (actually 25 domains since a.com is reserved by … [Read more...]
15 Year Old Domain StinkySocks.com Saved In UDRP
The Trimount Company, Inc DBA StinkySocks Hockey (“Complainant”), of Massachusetts, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name stinkysocks.com in a UDRP rather than just pay the domain holder the $6,500 he was asking for the domain. The domain was registered on February 2, 2000. The Complainant trademark was registered over 15 years later on September 22, 2015 and at that the trademark … [Read more...]
Tuscany.com; Erotica.com; Penis.com Added At No Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Some amazing domain names were added to the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon late last week all at NO Reserve by CheapDomains.com, including one that has an Estibot value of over $5 Million Dollars. That domain name is Penis.com, one of the premier "adult" domains but which is one of those adult words you can say on broadcast television. Penis.com of course can be used as … [Read more...]