Domain Name News

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 …

Today auctions.xyz sold at Namejet for $310 in what was an Advance Auction. The auction only had 5 bids from 4 bidders. The winning bidder won with a bid it made over a month ago: …

The domain name StockPhotos.com didn’t sell despite getting a $131,123 bid at Flippa in an auction that ended a few hours ago. The auction lasted one month and had 17 bids but the highest bid …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, will be offering “yourname.club” Web addresses to clubs, membership organizations, affinity and …

A decision at the National Arbitration Forum found that the Registrar PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com withheld the transfer of the domain names <maxalbums.com>, <emp3world.com> and <full- albums.net> in violation of the Policy on Transfer of Registrations …

My new 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 …

DomainNameSales and Frank Schilling just sent an email with the subject “January Housekeeping – DomainNameSales.com”. They are asking all the DNS partners to remove all domains from their accounts that they no longer own. These …

Here is the OnlineDomain.com annual roundup of the top ten most popular posts posted during 2013 (based on overall readership). I wrote 603 new posts in 2013. The top post got more than 7000 unique …

The is a hand registration contest going on over at DomainInvesting.com. I am one of the 7 participants. Please vote for me here. Unfortunately I can’t tell you which one is my list. 🙂 You …

I started a new column called Domain Name Q&A. I will be using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and other search engines to find my website and are …

I would like to congratulate Michael Berkens for getting on CircleID’s Top 10 Posts of 2013. CircleID is a news and opinion site that produces news articles, blogs, and other commentary on internet governance and …

Here is a list of my 4 figure domain name purchases in 2013. The purchases were for expired or dropped domains and also directly from the domain name owners using an escrow service. Some of …