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 …
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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 »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 »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 …
Read More »Donuts announces acquisition of .Fan new domain name extension
Donuts Inc. today announced it has re-acquired the .fan top-level domain (TLD), making it the 241st TLD in Donuts’ portfolio. .fan names are anticipated to be generally available in mid-September. “We are excited to add .fan to …
Read More »Internet grows to 333.8m domains in Q1 2018 with no help from new gTLDs
Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately …
Read More »Intercap Holdings Inc. acquires the .inc new domain name extension
Intercap Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of the new domain name extension, following ICANN’s consent to the change of control. As the first domain ending in the Intercap Holdings portfolio, .inc is being brought to …
Read More ».App domains are for dreamers
There is a lot of talk about the recent launch of .App domains by Google. It seems a bit ironic to me that there is so much optimism for the .app new extension. Apps are …
Read More »Namecheap offers monthly payments for buying New gTLDs like .CLUB, .SHOP, .MIAMI, .FASHION (Powered by Names.club)
Namecheap launched Namecheap Easy Payments, powered by the Names.club platform, in order to make premium domain names more accessible to startups, small businesses and everyone else. Namecheap Easy Payments adds a finance option to more …
Read More »Neustar and Sedo cancel domain auction for broadwaytickets.nyc
So long suckers! Neustar, the .nyc registry, and Sedo, the auction house responsible for the latest “travel” .nyc auction, have canceled the domain auction for broadwaytickets.nyc that was supposed to end on May 10. Why? …
Read More »Minds + Machines to acquire ICM Registry (.xxx, .adult, .porn, .sex)
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), announced today that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the entire membership interests of ICM Registry LLC (“ICM”), a US company, for a cash payment …
Read More »Half a million dollars spent on 40 .APP domain names
.App domain names officially launched yesterday as the new extension, run by Google, entered the EAP phase. EAP is the early access period when anyone can register available .app domains for an extra fee. The …
Read More ».NYC will have a travel and tourism domain name auction
.NYC will have a travel and tourism related domain name auction in May. The auction opens May 3, 1 PM ET and closes May 10, 1 PM ET. The auction features 25 domain names: boattour.nyc …
Read More »China added many 2nd level domains to the .cn extension
China has added many 2nd level domains to the .cn ccTLD extension. Allegravita wrote a blog post explaining the latest changes to Chinese domain names. “The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China …
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