Sedo reported their weekly sales and IT.de led the way at 49,000 Euros, ($55,333). Longdai.cn was in second place at $19,385 and DigitalPrinting.ie was third at 16,000 Euros, ($18,067). Omnibiotic.com was the highest selling .com at $16,500. 42 .com sales 17 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Surplus.net sold for $15,000. CozyCozy.com for $6,500, well done, well done by the … [Read more...]
Will you be investing in .uk domains?
I have been getting emails every couple days about the release of 1.8 million .uk names. The website TheUKdomain.UK has laid out the plan for acquiring these names. Starting from 1 July 2019, any previously reserved .uk domains that have not been registered will be available on a first-come, first served basis in a two stage process:Stage OneA release process, running from the 1st to the … [Read more...]
“Scammers flock to buy Libra domains”
Right after the Facebook announcement of Libra, I wrote an article about 1,000 Libra related names being registered almost immediately. The threat intelligence outfit Digital Shadows reported on all the registrations and that the company has already found several sites deliberately trying to trick consumers into thinking they are related to the new Facebook project. According to an article … [Read more...]
An update on some sales that actually didn’t happen
An update on some sales that actually didn't take place and Michael from Namebio has been contacted so he will remove them from Namebio. I wrote about Roy Flanders' names expiring after GreatNames.com sold for $25,000 and echecking.com sold for $1,325 on GoDaddy auctions. I confirmed that Roy's daughter was able to recover the names and the names are back to pointing to where they were before … [Read more...]
Crystals.com sells for $188,000
Crystals.com sold for $188,000 on Sedo yesterday. The domain was owned by Interlution a company that looks to be based out of Tampa, Florida. They have an account at Namepros with only 6 posts, one of them was a sales thread where it looks like they sold Howard.com back in 2007. Crystals.com was registered in 1999, parked at Above.com. Estibot was close valuing the domain at $151,120. … [Read more...]
NamesCon Europe live auction results totaled $297,000
NamesCon Europe live auction results came in with a 55% sell through rate. At the end of the auction I remember the auctioneer announced the owner of Ziz.com and Zlz.com will sell them both for $50,000 as a package. Someone took them right away. The top two sales were actually two character names. 8t.com sold for $76,000 and 4M.com sold for $36,000. Total sales were $297,000. In-room … [Read more...]
Drive Motors rebrands but it might be Anything.com who is in the driver’s seat
Tech Crunch reported today that a start up backed by Peter Thiel, Drive Motors is rebranding to Modal. They are going to use the domain name ModalUP.com. Founder, Aaron Krane explained the name change: That notion of transparency and self-contained interactions led Krane to the new name because “modal,” in software terminology, means a self-contained user interface that is overlaid on … [Read more...]