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...]

Above.com just announced this morning a new program where it will become the first domain name registrar to share the revenue generated from the sales of expired domain names. The Expiring Domain Sales Program is an opt-in program offered to clients with more than ten domain names registered at Above.com. Participants of the program would retain 60% of the profit from the sale of any domains … [Read more...]