Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/08/13 – 07/14/13 totaling $1.5MM. The highest priced transaction was body.com at $380,000 followed by startnext.com at $25,000. Over the past week, 711 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. This amounts to $36.5m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 41% of total sales were the result … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/8/13 – 7/14/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,073,756. The highest sale was ahn.org which sold for $50,000, followed by Baseball24.com for $15,000. Here is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Poking around the net this week I found that the one word .com domain name action.com is being simply forwarded to a Facebook page. The domain which I would estimate as a low six figure domain name doesn't resolve to a site but is going to a Facebook page "For MEN who like MEN". Certainly we have been seeing companies advertising their Facebook page or their Twitter hashtag in advertisements … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/1/13 – 7/7/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $696,986. The highest sale was exb.com which sold for $25,000, followed by baycare.com for $15,250. Here is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/01/13 – 07/07/13 totaling $1.04M. The highest priced transaction was LiveSafe.com at $65,000 followed by speck.de at €18000. Over the past week, 701 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.04M. This amounts to $36.5M in year-to-date sales revenue. CriminalDefense.net was a domain owned by … [Read more...]

Frank Schilling Uniregistry withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Marketing The application had a prioritization number of 826, with ICANN getting ready to release Initial Evaluations for applications with a prioritization number of 801-900, by withdrawing the application tonight Uniregistry saved itself $65,000 the difference between a 70% refund and a 35% refund. There are two other … [Read more...]

Web.com Group, Inc. released its Q1 results for 2013. Revenue was up 26% year-over-year to $115.5 million. Web.com is the company that owns two top ten domain registrars - Network Solutions and Register.com. Operating loss was $2.5MM from $18.5MM in last year's Q1. Net loss from continuing operations was $46.5MM compared to $29.8MM in 2012. Web.com's Chairman & CEO, David Brown, … [Read more...]