The extended auction from the Namescon conference being run by RightoftheDot on Namejet ends in starting in just over 2 hours. Of the 350+ domain names in the auction as of publication 300 domain names have a current high bid of $3,500 or less. 200 domain names as of publication have a high bid of $410 or less. Many domains especially the lower priced domains do not have reserve prices … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports 800,000 in Domain Sales In January 2017
Namejet.com reported it domain name sales through its auction platform for January 2017 As usually only sales of $2,000 or more are reported and only those domains that were paid for by January 31, 2017 are included in the report. As we have come to expect 4 out of the top 5 sales and 12 of the top 15 sales were for three-letter .com domains. The total came to 793,301.00 Here is the … [Read more...]
Republicans getting an early start in the 2018 political domain wars
The game is already afoot for 2018 between Republicans and Democrats. According to an article on FreeBeacon.com The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) has purchased domain names that they think might interest the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC ). They registered MarchInto2018.com, MarchInto18.com, MarchInto2018.org, and MarchInto18.org as well. "The Democratic … [Read more...]
Domain Names Appear More Than Hashtags in Super Bowl Ads
In a story appearing in the DailyMail, Entitled Is the hashtag over? Looking at ads that ran during the Super Bowl on Sunday" Out of 66 ads only 30% of them had a hashtag - while 41% included a URL This year had a 15% decrease in number of hashtags used in commercials Twitter handles were only shown in 5 commercials and Facebook in 4. The statistics come from Marketing Land’s sixth … [Read more...]
Tucows Down Over 10% in After Hours Trading After Earnings Release to $43.25
After releasing it earnings yesterday Tucows (TCX) share sank over 10% in after hours trading to $43.25. Shares of Tucows closed at $48.40 share down $.20 after hitting an intraday high of $50.52 in trading yesterday. As you can see from the one day chart above shares of Tucows were down to just above $40 a share in after hours trading before rallying back over $43. We will see how the … [Read more...]
After close to 7 years SumoMe acquires Sumo.com for $1.5million
After 7 years SumoMe.com acquired the domain name Sumo.com. Zain Din director of marketing, gave us details: We started to pursue the name on 4/3/2010 to improve brand value, recruiting, and to be the de facto Sumo brand. Noah was one of the first employees at Facebook (experienced TheFacebook.com > Facebook.com transition) and Mint (experienced the MyMint.com > Mint.com transition), so … [Read more...]
The Top 5 for 2-7-17 Convenience.org sells for $55,000
The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. A .org sale took the top spot on Tuesday as Convenience.org sold for $55,000 on Sedo. The domain was purchased by Nacs, The Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing. 2. SiteGuard.com closed at $9,500 on Flippa, the domain sold before on Afternic for $1,890 in 2008. I like it, … [Read more...]