Google's parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a "new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds from around the world, and tells you which news stories are most missed by the media where you live. From there, you can see how these stories are being covered … [Read more...]
Former Industry Blog WannaDevelop.com closes today on Go Daddy Auctions
WannaDevelop.com was a blog that was run by Mike Cohen, while talking about things like mini and mega site development, the blog also posted about the domain industry. MorganLinton.com posted an article back in 2010 that created quite a stir and that was followed up by Owen Frager and DomainShane.com. WannaDevelop.com is currently expired and around $100 on Go Daddy Auctions. It will be … [Read more...]
55 Three Letter .Com’s From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China
I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen's Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com's. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored … [Read more...]
My Sale to Godaddy
By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can't get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain … [Read more...]
.Club Has Record Month Selling Over $1.6 In Premium Domains
.Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names. In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November. .Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities: November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Sells 4 Domains For Over $1.325M & Breaks Record (Again) For 4 Number .Com
Rick Schwartz added to his most amazing year, selling four more domain names this week for just over $1.325 million dollars. Rick, who is known as the Domain King, keeps showing why he owns that title. Included in this week's sales is 6565.com which set another record for a 4 number .Com domain name. Rick sold 9595.com for $180,000 in July, which at the time set a record for the highest … [Read more...]
DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per
DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. "Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains" which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex's portfolio of over … [Read more...]