dotStrategy Co., the company that owns and operates the .buzz Top Level Domain (TLD) registry announced today the upcoming sale of 100% of the company’s shares in a closed-­‐sealed auction. The closed, sealed auction is scheduled for December 8, 2016. The auction carries a minimum reserve bid price of $3,500,000. "The winning bid received in auction will acquire the following .buzz … [Read more...]

The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three letters domain names were registered in Sunrise. Many generic domain names were also grabbed in Sunrise including Art.blog; Billions.blog; … [Read more...]

.Tube launched into General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including the domain names registered in Sunrise, .tube wound up with just 647 registrations. As we highlighted yesterday, many of the "better" .tube domain names were reserved or have very high premium prices up to $112,500. .tube was originally applied for by … [Read more...]

  Verisign the registry for .com and .net released it he top 10 keywords in registered in .com and .net for the month of  April In the last three months Trump landed in the top 10 for .com and .net but now that term is gone replaced by Guru, Prince, Panama ( as in the Panamapapers). For the top 10 here you go   … [Read more...]

Just a quick note that I will be Tweeting some bidding and auction results in real-time on our Twitter feed which is @thedomains We already pointed out all the domain names that have met reserve and will sell today over the last couple of hours, please check us out.     … [Read more...]

Frank Schilling just announced he has sold over 2,000 4 letter .com domain names for $3 million dollars Frank also announced that all 4 letter domain names in .link and .click have sold out at the registry level " All 4 and 5 number combinations in link and click are about to be sold or sold out" All 6 numbers in link and click are pending sale.” "All 4 letter domain names in link and … [Read more...]

I was looking through Sedo's recently announced numeric search engine and found a few interesting listings The domain name 8888888888.com (that is 10 number 8's) for  $190K; 8888888888888.com (that is 13 number 8's) for $88,888 88.club is listed for $60,000 88872.com is listed for $24,000 52188.com is listed for $23,000 868888888.com is listed for 9,999 GBP which is about … [Read more...]