The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. The first business day of the new year showed modest sales/closes. The top transaction was ScarletLetter.com at $3,250. The domain was registered in 1999. 2. K6.io was sold by Anuj Bahl from TLDpros on NameJet. It looks like the domain was picked up by Anuj on Park.io for $104 back in … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales close out 2016 with a six figure LLL.com sale
Sedo released two weeks of sales data and closed out 2016. The top sale was TCP.com at $133,000. Cave.com was number 2 at $61,350. A lot of brandables sold like infosea.com for 10,500 Euros and a great price for OpticsNation.com at $14,500. F.gg was the top cctld sale at 10,599 GBP DGH.net sold for $24,000 Domain … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Name.com
“The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also encouraged. One of the goals of the column is that company representatives will see how … [Read more...]
Poll Results: Less Than 20% Correctly Guessed How Many .Com Registrations There Would Be On 1/1/17
A year ago on January 1, 2016 we started a poll asking the question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? On January 1, 2006 according to Verisign there were 123,963,640 .Com domain names in the Domain Base. As of today January 1, 2017 there are 126,930,421 .Com domain names. As for the poll we gave you these choices and out of the 286 votes cast this was the … [Read more...]
Our top 5 posts for 2016
Looking back at the posts that were written in 2016 that generated the most traffic here in 2016. Interestingly a post written in December of 2016 tops the list. The post which took a look at the all time most popular post on TheDomains.com, led the way. https://www.thedomains.com/2016/12/02/viewed-post-time-thedomains-com/ The second highest trafficked post dealt with Rams.com and Adam … [Read more...]
A look at how domain stocks did in 2016, if you owned Tucows you were very happy
2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much. Tucows was the star for 2016 up 67% on the year. Neustar got acquired and the stock finished up close to 40%. Verisign saw their fortunes take a down turn in 2016, all the speculative hand regs based on Chinese whims did not materialize in 2016 … [Read more...]
RETARDED.COM – Should this domain be auctioned in the largest domain industry convention?
The question in the above headline is being asked on Namepros and quite a debate is breaking out. Some say business is business and think it's fine, while others feel that the convention has no moral obligation to anyone. On the flipside some are appalled and find the name in bad taste. NamesCon being the premier event in the industry does not need this kind of attention and some feel it's … [Read more...]