DigitalTown (OTC:DGTW) has rebranded, launched a new website and published new mobile applications to “equip municipalities and communities with the tools required to co-create more resilient and equitable local economies”. The announcement continues: The DigitalTown …
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ICE.com sold for $3.5 Million in private domain name sale
In what will likely be the most valuable publicly-known, single-domain transaction of 2018, the super-premium domain name “ICE.com” has been sold in a private, confidential transaction for $3.5 million. Crypto.com was reportedly sold for $12 …
Read More »The two 5-figure .APP domain name sales on Namebio never happened
I checked to see what .app domain name sales are listed on Namebio.com and I found 4 sales all from June 2018. .App domains launched about 2 months ago. .App entered general availability on May …
Read More »CentralNic acquires KeyDrive
CentralNic Group Plc (AIM: CNIC), announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the entire share capital of KeyDrive S.A. and its subsidiaries (“KeyDrive” or the “KeyDrive Group”) for an initial consideration …
Read More »6 years later…
It has been 6 years since I started this blog in 2012. What made me start was reading all the other blogs for a few years before 2012. I had also more or less left …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: force, space, explore, insurance
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There was 1 common keyword in the 2 …
Read More »Donuts sold 7 .news domains as a package for six-figures in 2017
Donuts Inc. today announced the sales of the domain names science.news, food.news, health.news, medicine.news, pollution.news, cancer.news and climate.news. The exact terms of the sales were not disclosed, though Donuts said that the package was sold …
Read More »New domain threat investigation tool by Threat Intelligence Platform
Threat Intelligence Platform announced a new domain threat investigation tool. The new tool takes into consideration a lot of data components such as: Domains’ Infrastructure Analysis – IP address – Web servers – Mail servers …
Read More »Payoneer is discontinuing its escrow business
Payoneer sent out an email notice stating “Payoneer is discontinuing our escrow business”. Payoneer Escrow will have a “wind-down” period of 90 days. The service will no longer offered or supported as of October 18, …
Read More »Andrew Rosener goes on a domain name selling spree
Andrew Rosener, domain broker and CEO of Media Options, announced 5 big domain name sales today. Before doing so he talked about working while on vacations: “The best part about the domain industry is we …
Read More »Domain investor shares his 4 year .NYC experience
Matt Gill of Developed.nyc shared his experience selling .NYC domain names since October 2014. First of all I would like to say that .nyc has smaller investor competition as you can only register this New …
Read More »There were 712 complaints for .uk domains in 2017 – 55% of the complaints resulted in a domain transfer
Nominet, the .UK registry, released the 2017 annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). A total of 712 complaints relating to 783 domains, which represents just 0.0065% of the domain names …
Read More »3.1 million .au domain names move from Neustar to Afilias
3.1 million .au domain names moved overnight from Neustar to Afilias, the new .au registry and domain name infrastructure. .au Domain Administration Ltd CEO, Cameron Boardman, said the transition of the registry to Afilias Australia …
Read More »Some very interesting domain name statistics
Afnic has published its 2017 study on the global domain name market, based on ICANN statistics, registry figures, specialized site information and internal research: At the end of 2017, the global domain name market represented …
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