GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Fox Business. Aman starts out talking about small businesses and the effects of the pandemic. Around the 2:37 mark Liz Claman asks Aman about the auction market. Aman mentioned record growth on the auction side. I thought it was interesting that Liz said, It's almost like trading stocks, trading domain names. People make a lot of money doing that, I … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Q1 revenue up 13.8% – $775m share repurchase authorized
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported first quarter earnings today. After hours 82.75 +0.51 (0.62%) GoDaddy raised its full year revenue expectations by $45 million to $3.745 billion, representing approximately 13% year over year growth. Revenue growth by category is expected to approximate double-digit growth in Domains, high-single-digit growth in Hosting and Presence, and high-teens growth in … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by CopyMarkets.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and CopyMarkets.com led the way at 150,000 Euro, ($180,271). SuperWorld.com was second at 45,000 Euro, ($54,081). SpaceCoin.com was third at $35,000. 44 .com sales 18 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · copymarkets.com at 150,000 EUR · acro.cn at 8,500 USD · foods.cn at … [Read more...]
SpaceCoin.com sells for 7x the 2015 sale price on Sedo
Back in 2015 Keith Trost of Nas.com fame, sold SpaceCoin.com for $5,000 on Sedo. Monday it was flipped for 7x to $35,000. Virtual Network SA out of Switzerland looks to have been the seller this time around. The domain name was registered way back in 1999. It's what people mean when something like coin gets hot and new investors look to find a hand reg and they are told the good names were … [Read more...]
New Gtld reported sales recap – April 2021
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...]