Over the past week, 560 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars. 55% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: nbt.com at 50,000 USD · Top ccTLD: roasted.de at 8,888 EUR · Top “other” TLD: … [Read more...]
Tesla Is The 5th Top Keyword Registered In .Com in May
Verisign just published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET for May and noticeably Tesla is sitting at number 5. Of course Tesla is a car maker and a trademarked term. So it seems very interesting that this term would be in the top 10 keyword registered domain names in .com for May The word "Option" led both the .com and the .net list pdf is another trademarked term by Adobe … [Read more...]
MM.com Domain Sells After $1.2 Million Purchase
The domain name MM.com has been confirmed sold! The transaction took place last Wednesday, June 3, 2015 with the domain name being acquired by Jinxin Wang Luo of Fujian, China according to whois records. I did try and get a purchase price but the buyer did not wish to share the details publicly. Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co.,Ltd, owners of the popular 4.cn website acquired the domain name … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Offering Free Domains In .Work & .Casa
According to an email we received today from Minds + Machines they are offering free domains in the new gTLD's .Work & .Casa only on the Minds + Machines Registrar "The offer is only valid for one more week, exclusively on Minds + Machines and the offer expires on June 15th, 2015" The offer is valid for 10 .Work and 10 .Casa non-premium (standard names) domains "per customer" Under the … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s Top 6 Million Domain Registrations & We Break Down The Numbers
The number of new gTLD registrations has topped 6 million according to ntldstats.com Lets break down the numbers by looking at the difference from our last report published on April 10th, when new gTLD domain registrations broke the 5 Million mark (Referred to as the April Report or April numbers) .Science owned by Famous Four Media added 200,000 registrations. .Science was launched and … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Huggle.com, Brand.com and More Domains
Domain Movers is a very interesting series that is exclusively on TheDomains.com that features recently acquired, registered and simply domains on the move by some of the largest companies in the world. These are often very early detections and many lead into new brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Microsoft has registered the … [Read more...]
When Will The 2nd gTLD Round Open? ICANN Puts Out RFP For Study; Final Report July 2017
There has been much discussion on when ICANN would open up a 2nd round of new gTLD's. We at thedomains.com, already went on record last year predicting 2018 would be the earliest and its looking like we were right. ICANN has put out a Request for Proposal (RFP) to conduct a technical study examining the impact of the New gTLD Program (the Program) on the DNS root system. According to … [Read more...]