.App is a new gTLD domain extension which Google (GOOG) paid $25 Million for in a ICANN auction. .APP closed the Sunrise period that was open to trademark holders with over 3,000 registration. .App went into day 1 of the Early Access Program (EAP) on Tuesday allowing early registration of domains for a one time extra fee. Fees as always very by registrar but day 1 pricing was around $12,000 … [Read more...]
Mike Mann rings the register for $40,000 with HumanAbility.com
Mike Mann just tweeted out that he sold HumanAbility.com for $40,000. He held the domain for 7 years. The name was registered back in 2001 and a company out of Denmark owned it. I guess Mike bought from them, there is no Namebio record. I have this unique human ability. Sold https://t.co/MIMX3mhxSu $40,000. Purch 6/5/11 $375 — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) May 3, 2018 … [Read more...]
NameJet April sales led by Shenhua.com
NameJet reported their sales for April and Shenhua.com was the top sale at $48,110. Center.org was the number two sale at $45,000. There was only one 3L.com in April, Syv.com. Usually a staple of the NameJet sales report, April was a different month. shenhua.com $48,111.00 center.org $45,000.00 NamesCon Live & Online … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by a New GTLD My.Bio
Sedo released their weekly sales and My.Bio led the way at 49,900 Euros, ($59,848). There were two $50,000 sales with MicroMobility.com and yCoin.com selling for the same amount. You want to talk about two different kinds of domains selling for $50,000. 63 .com sales 22 cctld sales 4 other gtld sales The keyword My was popular with My.bio and My.tax selling for … [Read more...]
the Liquid Domain Market Exchange is coming
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG.com sent out a message in his latest newsletter about a new offering. LXME - Liquid Domain Market Exchange. He writes: Last March, I had some time to reflect about why I started GGRG.com in the first place, and to me, since the beginning, I always had this dream of making the domain market more efficient by helping people understand what makes a domain worth $10 … [Read more...]
Enom pricing increase has some customers pissed off
I was reading a post at Namepros and then Mike forwarded me an email with a similar sentiment. Enom is going to be moving people down a tier and some are pretty pissed off. Namepros member WebInceptions posted: I've been with eNom through thick and thin from nearly their beginning, and have spend well over $1 million over the years. After some tech issues they refused to fix a few years ago, I … [Read more...]
20,000 domains registered and not 1 sale
Darryl E. S. Lopes formerly worked for Uniregistry as a broker and he posted a story on LinkedIn and Namepros about registering 20,000 .xyz names at .01 each. Darryl reported that he did not make one sale in the year he held them. Had to be a lot of work to register 20,000 names. He talks about the worry of potential UDRP's when regging so many names. It was certainly an interesting read. I … [Read more...]