The .Club registry sent notice to registrars that its wholesale pricing for registrations and renewals will increase gradually in each of the next 3 years. The current .club wholesale price is $8.05 and has been …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 4 domains in December and attacks GoDaddy’s appraisal tool
Mike Mann reported selling 4 domain names in December for a total of $65,276. Prices started at $9,888 and went up to $19,888. Mike Mann sold 4 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: hemp, divorce, pawn, taxi, caviar
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of December 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »Everything is fine here!
I got some emails and messages asking if everything was good with me because I didn’t make any posts for a couple of weeks. So what is up with me? Well, everything is fine here. …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 8 domains in November for $122,788 (LungCancerCenter[.]com, AfricaPartners[.]com, etc.)
Mike Mann reported selling 8 domain names in November for a total of $122,788. Prices started at $6,500 and went up to $30,000. Mike Mann sold 7 .com domains and 1 .org. The average reported …
Read More »Uniregistry removes TopCoin
Say goodbye to TopCoin as Uniregistry (now Uni) removes TopCoin from its platform in 2019. Starting January 1st, 2019 Uniregistry will no longer issue TopCoin as a reward currency. Existing TopCoin owners will have until …
Read More »Escrow.com now accepts Australian dollars
Escrow.com announced that it now accepts Australian dollars to its escrow service. Escrow.com also accepts USD and Euro. Escrow.com can be used for secure transactions involving any item of value, including domain names, vehicles, machinery, …
Read More »Escrow.com announces the appointment of former HSBC Vice President
Escrow.com has appointed former HSBC Vice President, Senior Manager Regional Regulatory Compliance Officer – West Coast, Fereba Ashufta, to lead its Anti Money Laundering Compliance Program. Ms Ashufta joins Escrow.com as BSA / AML Compliance …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: token, college, custody, litigation, paradise
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of November 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »A few important observations on the Tesla.com sale
Yesterday it was revealed that the domain name Tesla.com sold for $11 million in 2016 to Tesla Motors and Elon Musk. I have a few important observations that are worth noting regarding this deal and …
Read More »Elon Musk paid $11 million to purchase the domain name Tesla.com
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, revealed today the purchase price of the domain name Tesla.com. He paid $11 million to buy Tesla.com in February 2016 from its previous owner. The purchase price was …
Read More »EU/EEA citizens will be able to register .eu domains even if they live outside of the EU
The European Parliament, the Council, and the European Commission reached an agreement on 5 December on the new rules guiding the .eu top-level domain (TLD). Negotiators agreed on the reform of the .eu TLD to …
Read More »Jonathon Nevett named CEO of the .org registry (Public Interest Registry)
Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 17, 2018. “It is my …
Read More »Internet grows to 342.4 million domain name registrations
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the third quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 …
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