Domain Name News

The domain name trumpet.com sold for $57,500 at NameJet today. The auction had 446 bids from 419 bidders. There were 9 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. The domain name was sold as its reserve was …

The domain 121212.com belongs to a UK company and was registered in 2004. I believe that today was the day that this domain would get the most visitors but instead the domain is inactive. Interestingly …

The National Arbitration Forum decision to transfer the domain FacebookEmail.com to Complainant came after more than 5 months since the Complaint was submitted by Facebook. The Complaint was submitted by Facebook on June 28, 2012 …

This week, 900 transactions (928 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.52 million ($1.7 last week). Only 262 domains (222 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Afternic and Sedo publish a weekly report of domain name sales. Private sales don’t appear on these reports. If you have your domain names listed at Afternic and Sedo there comes a time when you …

In September I complained about the NameJet Reserve at the Namejet auctions. I then asked Namejet to replace this “feature” because using a phantom bidder was not proper auction reserve handling. My support ticket lasted …

Sedo has a bug at it’s control panel. Specifically the bug is at domain management and the parking optimization section. It is not possible to make bulk changes in the domain layouts and bulk changes in …

Sedo has been consistently producing a quarterly market study since the 2nd quarter of 2009. There are some stats from before but these are not complete. I took all the reports from the past 3 …

Sedo is offering a free $69 brokerage fee and reduced commissions on purchases as a holiday gift. If you are using the Sedo brokerage team for making purchases this is a pretty good deal as …

ICM Registry is offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. Last week 14 domains had been sold (or pending) from the original list. This week 5 more domains have been …

I got the usual spam email for a newly registered domain that I got as a joke. I was sure that this wasn’t a serious inquiry but I opened the email anyway. It came from …

It is the first anniversary today since the official launch of the .xxx TLD. Since ICM Registry’s mistake, putting 1000+ premium priced .xxx up for sale just before .xxx turns one, I have reevaluated my investment on …

About 2 weeks ago Sedo did the obvious and started including the offer amount in the notification email. At first I thought why this wasn’t done 10 years ago. Then I wondered why the optional …

Fabulous is NOT currently offering registration for a major gTLD like .biz and other gTLDs and ccTLDs like .us but is already ready to jump on the bandwagon to the new TLDs? Fabulous promised me …