Domaining News

It has been more than a year since the New gTLD program started and quite a few of sales have been reported so far. I have sold 2 domain names myself. I posted the top …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name BuyShares.com that was sold for $15,900. Lots of private sales this past week, so the report is showing roughly two-thirds of the $130,000+ of domains that changed hands. …

I got an inquiry for one of my New gTLD domain names today at the DomainNameSales.com. It turned out not to be a prospective buyer but it was really interesting how this internet user from …

Verisign published the list of the top 10 trending keywords for March 2015 registered in .COM and .NET. Top 10 Keyword Registration Trends for .COM and .NET in March 2015:

Donuts released the renewal rates for its first 25 New gTLDs and 180,000 domains and the overall renewal rate seems to be closer to 65% (probably lower) so far rather than the projected 80%. The …

Verisign announced the first round of #InternetOfficial contest winners. The First Prize Winners will receive $5,000 each, and are eligible to compete to win the #InternetOfficial contest grand prize of $30,000. The panel of top …

Triple report today with 1 5-figure and 28 4-figure domain name sales. More Proof That ICANN Is A 2-Face Organization Sedo Will Now Display The Domain’s Asking Price Directly On The Parking Page Domain Name …

Sedo added a small change to its domain name parking pages. It will now display the domain name’s asking price directly on the parking page. This new feature affects both “Buy Now” and “Make offer” …

Yesterday I made a post about hundreds of 2-letter .berlin domain names that were registered by a .berlin registry partner against ICANN rules. It turns out that the problem was much deeper than I thought. …

Triple report today with 3 5-figure and 23 4-figure domain name sales. Domain Name Bought For $70, Sold For $20,000 ICANN makes rules and then it bypasses them without a proper procedure. It suddenly released …

All 676 combinations of 2-letter .berlin New gTLD domain names were registered yesterday against ICANN rules that prohibit the registration of all 2-letter domain names in New gTLDs. Domain names like us.berlin, uk.berlin and aa.berlin …

I had kind of a seller’s remorse. It was not exactly remorse but… Someone inquired a few weeks back about a .com domain name, I send him a quote (about $5000) and he immediately accepted …

In the past week 543 (669 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8 million ($1.3m in the previous week). Only 204 (236 in the previous week) domains …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name FZV.com that was sold for $15,000. Three character (LLL) .COM domains helped Flippa sell over $125,000 worth of domains. There were 4 .io sales this week. …