Afilias, announced that the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued a formal statement that awards the .INFO, .MOBI, .RED, .PRO and .KIM Top Level Domains (TLDs) a license for sale in …
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15 New gTLD domain name sales over $5,000
This is the latest New gTLD domain name sales report courtesy of Sold.Domains. Radix sold the domain name Casino.Online for $201,250. Rightside published a list of 53 domain sales from $10k up to $183k. The …
Read More ».Club makes more than $500,000 in domain name sales in Q1 2017
.CLUB sold a total of 475 premium domain names in Q1 via auctions, through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the registry, generating over $500,000 in total topline premium name sales for …
Read More »Comparing the domains Shoes.com and Shoes.xyz
There is a thread on Namepros that is comparing the recent sale of Shoes.com for $9 million with the sale of Shoes.xyz for $1,000. This is one of the funniest things I have read in …
Read More ».Vegas releasing 1 and 2 character domains selling at $3,000 & $700
.Vegas is releasing previously reserved one and two-character .VEGAS domains. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 00:01 UTC 4/15/17 (5:01pm PDT on April 14, 2017). The one-character .VEGAS domains will …
Read More »Rightside publishes list of 53 domain sales from $10k up to $183k for video.games
Rightside published a list of their New gTLD domain name sales. They released a full list of every five- and six-figure direct Platinum domain sale they are allowed to publish. Just a few of these …
Read More ».NYC to auction 26 tech domains in May (Cloud .nyc, Web .nyc, Startup .nyc)
Auctions.nyc and the City of New York will have their 3rd auction of premium .NYC domains. This time 26 tech related domain names like Cloud.nyc, Web.nyc and Startup.nyc will be auctioned. It is not yet …
Read More »Too little, too late: Uniregistry will offer price protection on 9 domain extensions
Uniregistry issued a press release today that was pretty difficult to understand until you reached the end of it. And even then it is pretty cryptic. In essence they mumbled that grandfathering existing registrations was …
Read More ».VIP gets 200,000 new domain registrations worth $1.3 million
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported today orders for over 200,000 new registrations in its .vip top-level domain valued at US$1.3 million. The orders comprise both standard names and premium names, including 61 …
Read More »Casino.Online sells for $201,250 by Radix (Donuts must be very happy!)
The domain name Casino.Online was sold for $201,250 at Sedo. The seller was non other than the .online domain name registry, Radix. This sale is now the highest New gTLD reported domain name sale. You …
Read More »MMX aims for 1 million .VIP domains, will release .Boston in September & hires Victor Pitts
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported its operational progress across a number of business activities since its trading update announced earlier this year in January 2017. MMX is targeting global registrations of .vip to surpass one million by the …
Read More »The Uniregistry disaster continues: registrar increases domain retail prices by 62% to 75%
The Uniregistry disaster continues as people are jumping ship as both registry AND now registrar domain name prices are increasing. Uniregistry registrar sent out an email last week to inform current owners of the New …
Read More »Developed.NYC highlights the growing NYC domainscape
(This is a guest post from Matt Gill, owner of Developed.NYC.) When I first came to New York one thing I noticed was how people love to wear the name of their city on their …
Read More »The real percentages of the upcoming Uniregistry domain extension price increases (5% to 3115%)
Uniregistry’s planned price increase in its 16 new extensions resulted in a reaction few anticipated. Michele Neylon, CEO of the registrar Blacknight, shared in a blog post the actual percentages that each of the affected …
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