Please post in the comments your 3 best (or 3 of your best) domain names. I will start with mine. Please don’t post more than 3 domain names and also don’t post prices. Domains don’t …
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GoDaddy report: total revenue up 23.3%, domains revenue up 14.8%
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017. “GoDaddy delivered yet another great quarter, with continued strong growth in customers, revenue and cash flow,” said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. …
Read More »Afternic: how and where to sell and buy domain names (registrar list)
I wrote an article about some Afternic Fast Transfer price changes and tried to find out what registrars are Afternic Fast Transfer partners. That didn’t turn out to be so straightforward. It seems that not …
Read More »Namejet sold 112 domains for $737,936 in October (xlc .com, domainlookup .com, cityspace .com)
Namejet released it’s October 2017 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3-letter .com domains. Namejet sold 112 (94 domains in September) domains in October for a total of $737,936 ($744,035 in September). …
Read More ».Club sells 452 domain names for $380k (porn.club, basketball.club, coin.club)
In the third quarter of 2017 .CLUB sold a total of 452 domain names, generating $325,743.31 in single payment sales and another $55,050 in topline value of new “Easy Payment” subscription sales at www.get.club for …
Read More »ICANN: the extent of the impact of the GDPR on WHOIS is uncertain
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN“) published today a statement regarding the ability of registries and registrars to comply with their WHOIS and other contractual requirements related to domain name registration data …
Read More »Namesilo: a registrar that shares its domain name numbers by TLD
Namesilo added a new page to their website showing the number of domains registered with them along with a breakdown by TLD. The list includes all extensions including gTLDs, ccTLDs and New gTLDs. This is …
Read More »DigitalTown acquires CityInformation and its 11,600 mobile app handles
DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) and CityInformation B.V., have entered into an agreement for DigitalTown to acquire the assets of CityInformation. CityInformation develops and operates mobile apps for cities and towns worldwide. Mobile apps are …
Read More »Directnic acquires Fabulous.com
Directnic announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire domain name registrar Fabulous.com from Dark Blue Sea Pty. Limited. The transaction is expected to close later today. I was expecting this will …
Read More »Video describing domain name investing by Tough Domains
Tough Domains is a set of tools for creating a domain name marketplace, domain for sale landing pages and for instant website development among other things. Tough Domains created a video to describe their tools in …
Read More »Domaining Europe returns to Valencia because of expensive Rome
Since the last Domaining Europe conference in Berlin Dietmar Stefitz tried to get a venue in Rome, but was impossible. The cheapest hotel in the category he was looking costs over 250 € per night. And …
Read More »Vanity.com and Vanity.net domains and trademark sell for $340,000
US bancrupty court approved yesterday the sale of the domain names Vanity.com and Vanity.net and the Vanity.com trademark for the sum of $340,000 after an auction:”Debtor is authorized to sell, transfer, and convey the Domain …
Read More »Verisign Q3 report: 145.8 million .com & .net domain names (up 1.47 million)
VeriSign, Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017. Business Highlights Verisign ended the third quarter with 145.8 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 1.2 percent …
Read More »Domains priced up to $50K are now Afternic Fast Transfer eligible (see all partner registrars)
Afternic has increased the maximum price for Fast Transfer domains to $50,000 from $25,000. Afternic claims that domain names that are priced and opted in to Fast Transfer have 25% higher sales velocity. What is …
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