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Not all .io domain names are suited for the next startup. Here is one: Funeral.io sold for $279. But I guess a funeral has some “io” involved… Here is the first past of my photo …

This week 5 New gTLD enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on …

As many of you know I went to what was my first domain name conference: NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas. I enjoyed the conference and got a few photos in the process. I will be …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: Two geo New gTLDs from Belgium entered general availability this week: .brussels and .vlaanderen. According to NameStat.org .Brussels had …

Verisign launched today a .com contest where you could win up to $35,000. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of .com, Verisign, the .com registry operator, today launched the #InternetOfficial contest, to help fuel small business …

NameJet Sold 941 Domains Names For Almost 6 Million USD In 2014 Trademark Clearinghouse: 1,626 Marks Have Expired While Submissions Are Slowing Down .Net Domain Name Price Goes Up 10% On February 1st, 2015 (Up …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Coolant.com that was sold for $8,500. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 2 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

In the past week 603 (593 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.6m in the previous week). Only 207 (198 in the previous week) domains …

How probable is it for a google engineer to pay a lot of money for a 1-word .com, registered in 1996? A domain that gets offers every day and its word has been featured on …

NameJet, the domain name auction house, sold 941 domain names for $2,000 and over in 2014 for a total value of $5,984,520 USD. LIU.com was the top domain with a selling price of $155,688. There …