Over the past week, 450 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: jean.com at 48,000 USD Top ccTLD: amor.es at 7,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: autark.net at 2,500 EUR .COMs jean.com 48,000 USD codefactory.com 25,000 USD idealsleep.com … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Releases Summer 2016 Updates
GoDaddy released their summer updates for 2016. A look at all the projects, services and products that have either been released, updated or expanded upon. The new features and enhancements include: Domains Launched new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including: .SALON, .GROUP, .GMBH, .LTD, .MOM, .BARCELONA, .PROMO, .GAME, .JETZT, .STREAM, adding to the 400+ domains already offered … [Read more...]
Interview with The Man Behind The Data at Namebio – Michael Sumner
Today we are talking with Michael Sumner programmer extraordinaire at Namebio. In addition to his duties at Namebio, Michael works with Nat Cohen at Telepathy and manages his own domain portfolio. Q1) What got you started in the domain industry? I’ve been programming since my early teens, and I joined NamePros in 2007 hoping to connect with domain owners looking for development. I thought … [Read more...]
The Daily Roundup for July 25, 2016
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 25, 2016 Domain movements spotted by Mike 23andme wins UDRP on the domain 23and.me as the panel takes into account the right & left side of the dot http://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/1681113.htm Looks like @MGM_Studios bought the domain name Funderdome. TV which is just two years old. They do not seem to own Funderdome.com. Godaddy sells … [Read more...]
So far little is being done with the highest selling new gtld domains
Taking a look at some of the biggest reported new gtld sales on Namebio and it seems like a lot of people spent a lot of money on domains that are doing nothing. Wine.Club purchased for $140,000 and the name just shows a 101Domain.com landing page. Web.Hosting was purchased for $52,500 at NamesCon in January of 2016 and it's being used as a redirect to iBeeHosting.com. IBEE Hosting is part … [Read more...]
The Daily Roundup for July 22, 2016
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 22, 2016 Domain movements spotted by Mike Mark Monitor sells the domain name http://RoadTripTravel.com to RoadTrip Travel Company of NYC. No Joke .LOL loses almost 25% of its registrations in one day down 22K to 75K. The domain EliteMember.com is finally transferred after being in @sedo escrow since June 2014. WorldPokerTour. com drops the … [Read more...]
The Daily Roundup for 7-21-16 – YGY.com sells for $63,000
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 21, 2016 3L.com sales in China Kassey Lee reported: YLL.com sold for $60k (400k yuan) in recent auction. YLL may mean 有礼了 (good manner), 月利率 (monthly interest rate), or 又来了 (here we go again). YGY.com sold for $63k (420k yuan) in recent auction. YGY may mean 鱼肝油 (cod liver oil), 摇滚乐 (rock 'n roll), or 一个月 (one month). $25,000 sale on … [Read more...]