Country code sales ticked up in 2019 versus the last two years. Over dollar volumes were slightly up, with the number of total sales up substantially vs 2018. Average sale price was down vs 2018 by just under $700. Keeping the data balanced it's important to note 2200 (2178 from whois.ai) .ai sales this year as Namebio started reporting a lot more sales from Whois.ai. 310 .ai sale were … [Read more...]
Is Cats.com worth $1million?
So the owner of Cats.com Algis Skara told the Huffington Post India the name is back on the market. Skara cleaned up some misconceptions about whether or not The Flower Co. had purchased the domain name. He explained they never bought it, they were working with them as a partner. The Flower Co. has a cannabis product called Human Catnip Skara told HuffPost India in an email that the value … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
To all those out there today celebrating Christmas, Michael, Judi and myself would like to wish you and those close to you a Merry Christmas. To those not celebrating, may you have the day you desire. … [Read more...]
New.Life gets a Christmas present as Open.money sells for $25,000
Namepros member New.Life got his wish from Santa Claus, his third five figure new gtld sale of the year. A couple of months ago New.Life sold two new gtld domains for $63,000. Hello everyone! Just sold my third xx.xxx New gtld domain this year! Domain: Open.Money Price: $25,000 USD Venue: Uniregistry (BIN) Commission: $2,500 Hold time - 7 months. Hand reg. this domain just 7 months ago … [Read more...]
Rebranding trends for 2020
Forbes published an article on the trends surrounding rebranding. Looking back at 2019 and forward to 2020. Those who own and trade short names especially .com will be happy with the continuation of even established companies to want to get shorter. From the article: Shorter Still Established companies will likely continue the effort to shorten their multi-word names to create that same … [Read more...]
Should new gtlds be viewed through the lens of a 20 year plan?
I have been under the weather this weekend so I have not been reading texts and emails right away as normal. A few people were mentioning to me the post we did a few days ago about new gtld sales. The comments become the classic com fans vs non com fans. Matt wrote one that challenged Rick Schwartz, Matt seemed to be questioning why if he had a 20 year plan for .com, why don't new gtlds get … [Read more...]
Last sale post of the year, generate some Christmas cash
Last sales post of the year, a chance to make some last minute Christmas money. I got a few emails this week asking if there would be a post? I want to say this year some have gone well others were a complete joke, people listed trash. Other professional domainers are looking at these posts not outsiders who don't know the business. Some people have listed good names and have made sales, I … [Read more...]