NameJet/Snapnames released their April sales $2,000 and above. Khols.com was the top sale at $81,559. The domain which was lost in a UDRP to Kohl's the department store chain. More on that here. 999555.com was second at $44,000. 1740.com was third at $20,508. 72 out of the 82 sales were … [Read more...]
A bunch more of Jane Both’s blockchain domain names expire
Sadly it's Deja Vu for the estate of Jane Angela Maginsky Pantalone Both. I wrote about her passing and her blockchain related domains expiring in January of 2018. Back then over 100 domains and $100,000 in expired domain auction sales transacted. After this took place Paul Nicks and I talked and GoDaddy did donate some of the proceeds to charity. I wanted to publish that, but Paul said they … [Read more...]
Tema.com just closed at $128,938
Tema.com just closed at $128,938 at DropCatch. The domain name was owned by a Swedish company named Rectus for years. Rectus was acquired by Parker Hannafin in 2007. The bidding popped from $109,137 to $128,888 by namecatching but the bidder determined all along 888bbb had them covered. Spanish translation to the word Theme, or Subject. Hungarian for topic. Looks to be a couple other uses. … [Read more...]
GoDaddy valuations changed – they took $3k off one of my names
I was looking at GoDaddy valuations and I had a name in there of mine. I then was doing some stuff for a few hours and came back and hit refresh for whatever reason. The value of the name dropped by like $900, I was like that's weird not that automated appraisals mean much. In a poll I did on Namepros, 0 was the majority of votes given when asked their importance on a scale of 0 to 10. So … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain sales led by TXO.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales report and TXO.com led the way at $27,500. DP.co.uk was second at 10,250 GBP, ($12,585). RealPrice.com was the third highest sale at 10,000 Euro, ($10,850). 36 .com sales 18 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
StephenColbert.com expires goes for $633
If you are a television personality on a major network, I think it's a major mistake not to own your name in .com. Stephen Colbert had done The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014 and been on CBS with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since September 2015. He does not have the Twitter handle @stephencolbert, that account is suspended. He uses @stephenathome. He has 18.8 million … [Read more...]
Discord now using Discord.com as main address
Discord the video and chat app geared toward gamers announced on Twitter that they are now Discord.com The company has operated on DiscordApp.com and acquired the domain Discord.com back in 2017. It looks like the .com was a redirect to the discordapp.com domain they have used since the start. The company also owns Discord.app. If you are not familiar with Discord you can read this … [Read more...]