I have to admit I know very little about numeric domain names. They never made much sense to me but I know they are very popular in the Chinese market and within the Chinese investment space. The closest I ever came was owning for a short period of time, 7BJ.com which I was able to sell with minimal - minimal effort. What I originally thought was a very unusual domain was desired by many. If I remember correctly I sold it for a few thousand dollars nearly a decade ago. With … [Read more...]
80% of Top 100 Highest .club Domain Buyers Leave Parked, Redirected, or Failing DNS
Next up in a new series of top 100 development potential domains lists is the .club domain. In comparison to top 100 LLL .com Liquid Domains, top 100 .net, and top 100 .org, I wanted to take a look at some gTLDs to see what buyers are actually doing with them and .club comes to mind first. The team at .club has done a fantastic job in marketing their new gTLD and it will be interesting to see. Sales figures are one thing when valuing domains, but actual development shows … [Read more...]
Top 100 Highest .org Domain Sales Indicate Strong Interest, Desire by End-Users
As a follow up to yesterday's look at the largest .net domain name sales in history and what use is actually being put towards these domains from end users, .net appears hurting in actual business owner belief in what these domain assets are worth when building a foundation for business. Today, we're looking at .org - and holy smokes is it a different story with .org buyers; many more develop and launch their projects on them. The list below ($6.2 million dollars in domain … [Read more...]
Majority of Top 100 Highest .net Domain Sales of All Time Just Going to Waste
Looking at the top 100 (reported) highest priced .net domain name sales of all time it is pretty clear to see that the majority of them are not even being used; what a shame. The list below ($8.8 million dollars in domain sales) illustrates how the majority of people buying .net domains over the years are either investors or those who feel that these premium .net domains are not worth building a foundation on. The great majority of these .net domains either redirect, are … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 02/27/2017 – 03/06/2017
Just released is Sedo's weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as elektromobil.com at $14,000 EUR (14,793.00 US), the top ccTLD as ich.de at 10,100 EUR ($10,673.00 US) and the top “other” TLD as fly.info at 10,000 EUR ($10,567.00 US). Here is the entire list from Sedo sales from 02/27/2017 – 03/06/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
Liquid Domains: Look Who’s Buying and Using Three Letter .com Domain Names
NEW YORK, NY - Getting your hands on a three (3) letter .com domain name can be a life changing event for most. These short .com domain names are in high demand in just about all areas of the world. They are often referred to as "Liquid Domains", domain names which possess instant market liquidity (the ability to sell quickly without having to reduce price). Below is a brief look at what 3 letter .com domain names sold over the last five to six years, who is using them and … [Read more...]
SedoMLS Network to Bring up to 18M Premium Domains to 16M+ Customers of Top Registrar 1&1 Internet
March 2nd, 2017 – Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, and 1&1 Internet, the most trusted partner for digital success for small businesses, today announced a partnership that enables 1&1 to offer up to 18 million premium domain names from Sedo’s domain marketplace to its customer base of 16.75 million. The distribution of these premium domain names is made possible by the web’s largest domain distribution network, SedoMLS. 1&1 … [Read more...]
Domain Community Can Do “Much Better” to Help Heidi Powell Keep HeidiPowell.com, Raise Awareness
NEW YORK, NY - It’s going to be a sad day for all domainers if and when Mrs. Heidi Powell loses ownership of her domain name “HeidiPowell.com”. Some of you may have read my original article on this topic earlier this month and some of you may not. Some of you may have even helped contribute to Heidi’s GoFundMe campaign to help her fight this nonsense legal battle – but again, some of you may not. Now I don't know exactly how big the domain community is - but it is sure bigger … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 02/13/2017 – 02/19/2017
Just released is Sedo's weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as defiant.com at $45,000.00, the top ccTLD as g.cx at 7,894 EUR and the top “other” TLD as apuestas.net at 29,000 EUR. Here is the entire list from Sedo sales from 02/13/2017 – 02/19/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 02/06/2017 – 02/12/2017
Just released is Sedo's weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as LXW.com at $47,011.00, the top ccTLD as bummeln.de at 10,250 EUR and the top “other” TLD as convenience.org at $55,000.00. Here is the entire list from Sedo from 02/06/2017 – 02/12/2017. Domain … [Read more...]
Verisign Still Pushing Hard on .Net Domains; Sales Remain Active; New IDN for Korea
NEW YORK, NY - While at NamesCon, I noticed a television commercial for the .net domain extension pushing it as a leading “trusted extension” and touting its long standing history in the domain space; the .net domain name was created on the same day as the .com in January 1985. (I’m pretty sure the video was part of Verisign’s “Uncommonly Timeless” collection of .net marketing pieces - it looked like one of these on YouTube [one is below].) According to Verisign, the … [Read more...]
Nice to Hear: Dot Info Domain Extension Used in Radio Commercial by University
I heard one of my first radio commercials today to use a “.info” domain name for its website address. The commercial was about “Brain Imaging” research and was running on behalf of Stony Brook University Hospital and Yale University for their Department of Psychiatry using the domain name Imagers.info to promote Opportunities to Participate in Research. I’ve always liked .info domain names very much when it comes to either “getting information” about something or … [Read more...]
There’s Pork In That Bill; DNA’s HDI Overreaching with Registry Handling of Copyright Infringement
NEW YORK, NY - The Domain Name Association (DNA), a new non-profit association “supposedly” (I just learned about them) representing the interests of the domain name industry, is suggesting in its “Healthy Domain Initiative” (HDI) four objectives for registry and registrars to participate in voluntary actions which are intended to protect and advance the evolution of the domain name system. Again, I use the word “supposedly” only because I just recently heard of this … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 01/30/2017 – 02/05/2017
I reached out to Sedo's media relations team this week to ask about receiving the entire data-set for public domain name sales in 2016 but I was not able to receive it as it is proprietary. They do release market study infographics yet those are only available up until 2013; there is no 2014, 2015 or 2016 reports. If you have information on where I can receive an entire years data of domain sale reports for 2016 please share it by either emailing me or placing it in the … [Read more...]
What Extensions Changed Hands in 2016 According to DNJournal’s Top 100 Charts
NEW YORK, NY - A reader suggested I look at the top domain sales of 2016 (specifically, the number of notable new gTLD sales); while I am waiting for a response from Sedo for a full set of data (if they will release it), I used Ron Jackson's popular 2016 Top 100 Domain Sales Charts to get an idea of exactly what moved around last year and how many ccTLDs verses gTLD domains hit the charts. Below is what I found [give or take a domain or two] (It was pretty grueling … [Read more...]