So while there is other stuff going on in domaining, for many the only thing that matters is the Brent Oxley domain lockdown at GoDaddy. Someone registered FireAman.com referring to the CEO of GoDaddy Aman Bhutani and redirected it to the thread on Namepros. I started another thread to get the input from other domain registrars. How would they handle it? Namecheap was approached to lock … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by 509.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and 509.com led the way at $106,000. This was a haircut from the last time it sold. Swap.io was second at $50,000 and vollautomat.de was third at 20,000 Euro, ($23,803). 69 .com sales 39 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · trustcoin.com at 10,000 EUR · lsev.com at 10,000 … [Read more...]
Escrow.com releases their Q4 2020 report – sales total $93.8m
Escrow.com released their Q4 Domain Investment Index report. The total transacted domain name amount continues to show signs of recovery from the impact of the pandemic - with a strong Q4 of $93.8 million compared to $77.5 million in Q3. Domain sales over $50,000 increased as Fortune 500 companies relaxed controls on capital expenditure. Download the full report … [Read more...]
The Brent Oxley domain lockdown turning into PR nightmare for GoDaddy
Since James Iles wrote about Brent Oxley having his domain names locked by GoDaddy due to someone filing a complaint in India, Namepros has erupted. Many have started transferring names out, I mentioned the story to someone this morning who neither goes to Namepros anymore or reads most blogs. He replied back 30 minutes later he was transferring his 700 names out. The thread at Namepros … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB Q4 2020 showed a decrease of 4.4m regs vs Q3 of 2020
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2020. The fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.2 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2020. According to Verisign domain name registrations grew by 4.0 million, or 1.1 percent, … [Read more...]
HomeContractors.com expires and closes at $51,000
HomeContractors.com registered in 1998 was left to expire at GoDaddy and closed at $51,000. The domain name looks to have been owned by a Jeff Sauer from Three Deep Marketing. Jeff is alive and well he tweeted today. He seems to be affiliated with another company now so maybe he left and no one else at Three Deep knew about the domain name. Three Deep describes themselves on this page as • … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by FXCA.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FXCA.com led the way at $35,000. Defendable.com was second at $30,000 and bildelar.se was third at 15,000 Euro, ($18,131). 57 .com sales 21 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · burn.art at 12,500 USD · nimgroup.com at 11,700 USD · cor3.com at 9,995 USD *AD* Check out … [Read more...]