We are celebrating the 11th anniversary of TheDomains.com. Michael Berkens started this journey with the following post back in 2007. The domains.com is now live. We are throwing our hat into the ring, to blog about all things domain. We acknowledge and thank some of the brilliant thinkers who are already blogging about the domain name industry. Many of those blogs appear under our links … [Read more...]
WalMart acquires Art.com
WalMart picks up another business running on a premium one word, three letter domain name. CNBC reported that WalMart will acquire the website Art.com. In 2016 they acquired Jet.com for nearly $3Billion. From the article: Art.com is one of the largest online sellers of art and wall decor globally, Walmart said. A person familiar with the deal said the size of this acquisition is similar to … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB for Q3: Internet Grows to 342.4 Million Domain Name Registrations
Verisign released their DNIB report for the third quarter of 2018. Q3 2018 closed with approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2018. .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 151.7 million domain … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by FruitWraps.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and FruitWraps.com led the way at $27,300. H1z1rev.com for $9,999? Well this was a developed website at one time. Back in 2017 someone posted this on GitHub 41 .com sales 16 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Euro.Digital was the top new gtld sale at 4,000 Euros, ($4,536). ico.asia sold for $5,000, and listen.net sold for … [Read more...]
NameJet November sales led by two 6 figure sales
NameJet reported their November sales and revealed that Web.com has purchased Tucow's 50% interest stake in NameJet. Web.com is now the sole owner of NameJet. The top sale was 864.com for $147,000. 1M.com was right behind at $112,000. There were two 3L.com sales and nine 4L.com sales for the … [Read more...]
NamesCon auction looks to be staying with NameJet
It looks like the NamesCon auction will continue to use NameJet as it's auction platform. Previously it looked like the platform was switching to GoDaddy, the TOS had stated that the seller must transfer names to GoDaddy in the event the name sells. The TOS has changed and , once a Domain is paid you are required to transfer the Domain to your account at NameJet, whereby you are responsible … [Read more...]
Translate.com auction closes at $853,000 on Flippa
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Translate.com at auction on Flippa, it was at $201,000. The auction closed at $853,000. There were 172 bids Now this was a full business not just a domain sale. Translate.com: almost 2M monthly visitors, Translation website with ~2M monthly visitors generating $469k annual revenue Premium domain and translation site servicing nearly 2m monthly … [Read more...]