There were 133 new gtld domain name sales in April 2021. As in previous months .xyz and .club continue to post the most monthly sales. .Xyz registered 16 mostly on the impressive results of DNGear.com. .Club posted 21 sales. 2021 has produced just 10 five figure new gtld domain name sales for the first third of 2021. April saw two of them. March produced 6 led by NFT.app for $50,000 and … [Read more...]
NamesCon Online for a second time in 2021 – September 22-24
Another NamesCon Online is scheduled for September 22-24. This time it will be $99 for a standard pass, current special running til July 4, $79. It looks like this time around registry, registrar, and marketplace team employees will be paying more. Will you be attending? … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by TN-i.com (yes an LL-L.com)
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and TN-i.com led the way at $61,990. Well done to the seller, that much for a LL-L.com is a great price. Only 32 reported LL-L.com sales, one at 5 figures. KVEE.com was second at $50,100. Sound.de was third at 31,500 Euro, ($38,080). 42 .com sales 30 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay vs GordonRumsay.com
Gordon Ramsay is apparently dealing with someone trying to cause confusion with his name. In 2019, Kushnarenko Oleksii set up “gordonrumsay.com”, having changed just one letter of the star’s real website gordonramsay.com. In January, Mr Ramsay’s lawyers filed an official complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organisation insisting the Russian national was “typosquatting” the chef’s real … [Read more...]
Verisign reports First Quarter 2021 Results
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) reported earnings after the close. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 was 73.5 percent compared to 73.8 percent for the same quarter in 2019. Financial Highlights Verisign ended the first quarter of 2021 with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.18 billion, an increase of $14 million from the end of 2020.Cash flows … [Read more...]
investing.com (the business) sold for $500m – domain sold in 2012
Investing.com was sold for $2,450,000 in 2012. Well now according to Globes.co.il the business that was built on that domain name sold for $500 million. An international investment fund based in East Asia has acquired Investing.com for $500 million. From the article: Dror Efrat and three others founded the company in 2007. Efrat, who grew up on Kibbutz Urim in southern Israel, served as CEO … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Angel.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Angel.com led the way at $2 million. 1of1.com was second at $85,000. Credit.de was third at 40,000 Euro, ($48,135). 77 .com sales 25 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · pie.co at 32,000 USD · ela.net at 15,051 USD · reflections.co at 11,250 USD Domain … [Read more...]