Steve Lohr of the New York Times published a piece on the .AI extension. .Ai has become a windfall for Anguilla. It was once just a side job for the man running the extension, Vincent Cate, a computer scientist who settled in Anguilla and later became a citizen. Those fees added up to $2.9 million in 2018, the most recent official government tally, or nearly as much as the combined … [Read more...]
ICYMI: January 2020 – Top stories
The top posts of January 2020 on TheDomains January saw Rat.com launch, Adam Dicker back out of an appearance on You Tube and the NamesCon Live Auction. Our top story traffic wise was on the founder of Xiaomi discussing the importance of domain names on You Tube Rat.com launching was met with some skepticism. Domain investing is rewarding according to a post on Nic.at. A discussion … [Read more...]
Report: 28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users
Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put together their report. From the article: The Sample Whois XML API collected data on one million domains registered on the most popular eight TLDs by the number of domain registrations. All are gTLDs apart from the ccTLD .CN … [Read more...]
Add.com sells for $800,000 to lead NamesCon Live Auction
Add.com stole the show at NamesCon live auction. The name sold for $800,000. Offices.com sold for $260,000. The two LL.coms did not meet reserve. 74 out of 136 lots sold. There were no new gtld sales but to be fair there were only a few in the auction. I was live tweeting and we had a lot of people commenting and asking questions I posed on some names. Futons.com did not sell at … [Read more...]
Elon Musk talks about the 10 years and $10 million to get Tesla.com
On the Third Row Tesla Podcast Elon Musk talks about the 10 year effort to buy Tesla.com. He mentioned the trademark for $75,000 buying the domain was a whole different nightmare that took us 10 years to buy that Tesla com domain. That cost was like 10 million dollars yeah that was crazy. Musk talks about the name might have been changed to Farraday which later a competitor took. Faraday … [Read more...]
TheMortgage.com from $500,000 to $15,050
One of yesterday's biggest sales reported by Namebio was TheMortgage.com. The domain name sold for $15,050 but in 2000 the name sold for $500,000. ownership of themortgage.com goes back to 1995 when Jason Smith registered the name for his company, Online Mortgage Explorer Inc. Online Mortgage merged with iGate Technologies Inc. to form Basis100. Back in 2000 TheGlobeandMail.com … [Read more...]
DNForum picks up Epik as a sponsor opens up marketplace
DNForum sent out some news this morning they are opening their marketplace for free users and they picked up Epik as a sponsor. There is $25 worth of credit at Epik.com if active on DNForum.com within 14 days of this announcement. Exclusive members can claim $100 worth of credit at Epik.com if active on DNForum.com within 14 days of this announcement. We have some exciting news to share … [Read more...]