Some new rules coming to the Australian domain name space. According to an article on CSCDBS.com the auDA will be putting new rules in place that go into effect on October 5, 2020. Rules apply to both new and existing domain names. What’s changing? Previously, an Australian trademark application or registration may constitute the required Australian presence for an .AU domain name, but the … [Read more...]
Verisign 2020 Q2 DNIB shows an increases of 3.3 million domain name registrations
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their second quarter Domain Name Industry Brief. Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020. Domain name registrations have grown by 15.3 … [Read more...]
Blogspot.in a name that Google allowed it’s registration to lapse, sells for $5,999 at Sedo
Back in June Google lost control of the Blogspot.in domain name. It was reported about in many tech blogs and publications. This error on Google's part caused millions of blogs to break 9to5 Google reported Spotted by The Next Web and BleepingComputer, Google apparently let the blogspot.in domain lapse in early June, with Google no longer in control of that domain. Rather, it’s now being … [Read more...]
Hola.me a waste of $8,500
Hola.me was sold at Sedo for $8,500 in 2018. It was the third highest .me sale of 2018. The domain name had just been listed for sale on a proprietary landing page. After it sold it just showed a Domain Agents landing page that the domain name was for sale. Source. The domain name dropped and went for $630 at Park.io. Nous.org was purchased for $4,088 at Afternic, the same day the .net … [Read more...]
Mexico.tv sells for $10,000
Ammar (Ammudamus over at Namepros) one of the top .tv investors in the business just sold Mexico.tv for $10,000. Ammar announced the sale of Trading.tv on August 7. It was sold for $9,000 at Sedo back in 2015. He posted how it went down on Namepros I just sold Mexico.TV for $10,000 in a private transaction. I know Mexico.tv has sold in the past a few times with premium renewals, but I … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Capsules.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales report and Capsules.com led the way at $50,000. Tuma.com was second at $42,000 and NextPR.com was third at $25,500. 47 .com sales 9 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · healthcarecorp.com at 12,500 USD · yjyzw.net at 9,999 USD · waltermart.com at 9,995 USD Domain … [Read more...]
“0.35% of name servers are responsible for 90% of all domain names”
Chris Duckett published an interesting article over at ZDNet on just how few name servers are responsible for the majority of domain names. The article illustrates the potential problems for outages as many opt for a convenient cloud based solution vs your own server. Sans Institute dean of research Johannes Ullrich looked into how many of the world's 2.7 million authoritative name servers it … [Read more...]