Domain Name News

Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, maintained its market leading position in 2013, according to the Top 100 Domain Sales Chart as published by the domain industry publication, DN Journal.  With 34 …

The domain name liu.com just sold for $155,688 with 520 bids and 377 bidders in a Namejet public auction. Yesterday the domain name liang.com sold for $45,000 with the 2 highest bidders tied at  $45k. Liu.com and Liang.com were …

Hand registration is hard! I participated in the hand registration contest that Elliot run on his blog at DomainInvesting.com. I came up 3rd with 49 votes. Thanks to those who voted for me. My list was …

The domain name liang.com just sold for $45,000 with 2 only bidders bidding in a Namejet public auction. What is incredible is that both bidders had a high bid of $45k with the one that …

An exclusive joint partnership has been announced between Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC to provide live auctioneer and live online auction services for premium domains in new TLD extensions that are being launched over the …

Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the …

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ICANN announced that on January 8th, 1 more New gTLD was delegated for a total of 83 new gTLD strings. .BERLIN New gTLD was delegated and is now located at http://nic.berlin. Check out the Launch …

Escrow.com just hit the $2 Billion mark in secured transactions including domain names. They passed the 1.5 Billion Dollar mark back in May 2013. It took them almost 11 years to hit $1 Billion in …

Today, Flippa announced lower listing fees – across the board. The Domain Name Listing Fee saw the largest reduction down to $9 from $29. Here are the all new listing fees: Established Websites – Was $29, …

CENTR has published its latest stat report for December 2013. CENTR is the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries such as .uk in the United Kingdom and .es in Spain. CENTR has 52 …

Namejet released it’s December 2013 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 131 domains for $841,621 in December 2013. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I bought one of these domain …

In the past 3 weeks (Dec 16 to Jan 5), 1317 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $3.4 million. Only 478 domains from the 1317 were reported by Sedo. The other domains were either private …

This column is called Domain Name Q&A. I am using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and other search engines to find my website. Some of the search terms …