Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their Q2 2021 Domain Name Industry Brief The second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to the first quarter of 2021.1,2 Domain name registrations have decreased by 2.8 million, or 0.7%, year over year.1,2 .Com and .Net … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Herel.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Herel.com led the way at $27,000. Day.io was second at $18,999. RoboMarkets.se was third at 15,000 Euro, ($17,714). It was a slow week, 24 .com sales 16 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: herel.com at 27,000 USDdeso.org at 10,000 USDsucceeder.com at 9,900 USD Domain … [Read more...]
iLoveAfrica.com from $459 to $10,000
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Joseph Ca selling AutonomousRetail.com for $25,000 to Amazon. He handregged the name in 2019. He just made another solid flip with iLoveAfrica.com. I saw the auction featured at Domaining and jumped in with $259 and was outbid by user first1 a couple times until the $459 winning bid. I remembered thinking to myself and repeating ‘you paid too much’, but I got … [Read more...]
Radix H1 2021 Premium Domains Report – $2.91M in retail premium revenue
Radix (an advertiser on thedomains) released data on the first half of 2021. .Tech was the highest grossing tld with over $360,000 in retail annuity premium sales. $2.91M in retail premium revenueComprises of $1.67M coming from renewals43% growth in premium new registrations from H2 202047% growth in premium renewals from H2 2020.TECH was the highest-grossing TLD … [Read more...]
Report: Budweiser purchased Beer.eth for approximately $95,000
Coindesk reported that Budweiser purchased Beer.eth Budweiser Buys Beer.eth Domain Name for 30 ETH Alongside NFT. Budweiser has changed its Twitter profile picture to that of a rocket ship designed by NFT artist Tom Sachs. Users say the beer company has also purchased the Beer.eth domain name for 30 ether (ETH, -4.84%), or roughly US$95,000. CoinDesk attempted to contact Budweiser but … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Fundom.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Fundom.com led the way at $15,000. D.gs was second at 11,786 Euro, ($13,859). UDX.org was third at $12,500. 29 .com sales 28 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: sparking.com at 7,000 USDheybit.com at 5,900 EURr6e.com at 5,995 USD Domain … [Read more...]
So, why did Andrew Miller spend $48,000 on a Bored Ape NFT?
Decrypt.co did a story on Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings and his move into NFT's. "Why Domain Name Investors Are Buying Up NFTs?" In the article Miller states that he started investing in NFTs in 2021, and acquired his first Bored Ape in August. From the article: I believe we are not even in 1998 yet with NFTs. It's not even the first inning, it's 1995 in the domain world. And NFTs are … [Read more...]