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Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Babes.net that was sold for $14,100. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 7 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are …

I have a fever and a case of “too many lost Go Daddy auctions” today. I tried 3 domains and lost all 3 auctions. I guess my bidding was too sensible for Go Daddy. Well …

In the past week 543 (525 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.4m last week). Only 154 (144 last week) domains from the 543 were reported by Sedo. The …

websidebuilder.com sold for $355 at Go Daddy auctions. Are you kidding me? Does anyone check the spelling of domain names? These prices are ridiculous at Go Daddy. And if these misspellings are sold for this …

Namejet released it’s August 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 95 (82 last month) domains for $743,969 ($509,926 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

I had 4 inquiries for New gTLD domains in a day. 2 for .ninja domains and one each of a .social and a .tips domain. It seems that things are picking up for New gTLDs. …

Sedo published a report on the dmexco 2014 Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference that was held in Cologne Germany. The conference had 32,000 visitors and Sedo along with representatives from Famous Four Media, Donuts, DotClub, …

I had made a landrush pre-order for the domain video.press. After landrush had ended I checked to see if I got the domain only to see that my pre-order had disappeared from my account and …

Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 3 New gTLD launches: Radix launched yesterday its first 3 New gTLD strings: .Website, .Host and .Press. .Website got the most registrations as expected and has …

There were a lot of domains auctioned at Namejet yesterday. 8 domains sold for 4 figures and a lot more just under $1,000. Today a new report on ‘New gTLD registrar marker share’ attacks .xyz …

General availability launched today for three top-level domains: .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST. These TLDs entered General Availability with 80+ registrars onboard, including industry leaders like GoDaddy, eNom, OpenSRS, 1Api, 1&1, DomainMonster and Name.com. .WEBSITE surpassed …

Igloo.com Limited, a Domain Brokerage & Consultancy Firm, has acquired the business of Aftermarket.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names, from Thought Convergence, Inc. This acquisition builds upon Igloo’s recent news …

“Perhaps it is better to be the leader on a few high-potential TLDs than to be in “pole position” on a TLD artificially inflated by short-term promotional tactics.” OUCH! This is a conclusion of the …

Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 5 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs were out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability on Wednesday: .Loans, .Life, …