Mike Mann is sharing his domain sales all the time but he doesn’t say the venue these domain names are sold. It appears that many of his sales are occurring on the GoDaddy platform. When I …
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.CLUB sells 666 domains worth $2.7 million in Q2 2017
.CLUB sold $2.7 million of domain names in Q2 2017 mostly attributed to China registrars with strong pinyin and number sales. .Club sold a total of 666 premium names sold in Q2 via auctions, through the registrar channel …
Read More »Mike Mann: “.com is still king and always will be” (video)
Mike Mann made a short video for the GDS (Global Domain Summit) 2017 conference in China and posted it on Facebook and on YouTube on what appears to be his new channel. Among other things he said that …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in June 2017: .XYZ take backs, Rick Schwartz, brokers, bullshit, Mike Mann
These are the top domain name articles from June 2017. June was a good month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views. Also more than 350 comments were made by readers. The most popular articles were about .XYZ take …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 13 domains in June (Komorebi .com, Hybrid .co)
Mike Mann reported selling 13 domain names in June for a total of $174,471. Mike had 8 5-figure sales and another 2 sales very close to $10k. 12 of the sold domains were .com but there was …
Read More »Game over for the .Mcdonalds and .MCD domain name extensions
The McDonald’s Corporation sent 2 letters asking The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to terminate the .mcdonalds and .mcd registries by November 2nd 2017. The company only ever registered 1 domain name in each extension. The …
Read More »Namejet sold 129 domains for $810,132 in June (jingzhou .com, bui .com, screensaver .com)
Namejet released it’s June 2017 domain name auctions report that includes 1 and 2 word .coms, some 1, 2, or 3 character domains and some numerics. Namejet sold 129 (112 domains in May) domains in …
Read More »Thick domain name whois is getting closer
The transition from Thin to Thick WHOIS for the .com, .net and .jobs extensions is coming soon and quite a few progress has been done. The registry operator for .COM and .NET, Verisign, met the …
Read More »WordPress promises not to increase prices on .Blog domain name renewals
WordPress and its company Knock Knock WHOIS There that owns the rights to the .blog domains announced an amendment to the .blog Registry-Registrar Agreement. Changes will be effective on July 15th, 2017. WordPress said that …
Read More »Queen.com UDRP: Queen.dk & Frands Jepsen are Reverse Domain Name Hijackers
The attempted theft of the domain name Queen.com from its lawful owner Rick Schwartz was spectacularly rejected by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) . Frands Jepsen, owner and managing director of Queen.dk, tried to …
Read More »Please cut the bullshit!
In the past few weeks I have read some straight up bullshit statements from people in the domain name industry that I really enjoy their writing and are certainly knowledgeable in regards to domain names …
Read More »Video preview of GDS (Global Domain Summit) 2017
The GDS (Global Domain Summit) 2017 event is now only a couple of weeks away. GDS 2016 was the first year the meeting was held. It was staged in Hangzhou, which is a beautiful Chinese …
Read More »“I don’t like brokers”
I got a call, I was not expecting, from a broker from a well known marketplace. He clearly didn’t knew who I was or what I do as he asked me if I was selling …
Read More »Global domain market in 2016: overall growth was 7.1%, no growth for ccTLDs
Afnic has published a complete overview of the global domain market in 2016 in a study based on ICANN statistics, information from registries, specialized web sites and its own research. The overall domain name market growth …
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