NEW YORK, NY – Some companies reap high returns by investing heavily in a declining industry. Others sell out before competitors recognized the decline. Based on some numbers I posted yesterday, there’s no wonder it sparked some chatter back and forth on NamePros.com on whether the overall sales numbers are up or down (when compared to the entire list) or what's causing the decline, or if the decline is even accurate when viewing the entire years data (not just the top … [Read more...]
Top 100 .com Domain Name Sales in 2015 Verses 2016 Shows 35% Decline
The top 100 .com domain sales in 2015 (left) accounted for a total of $37,670,400.00 in sales while the top 100 domain name sales in 2016 (right) accounted for $24,427,430.00. A 35% Decline in overall sales … [Read more...]
Top 100 LLL.org 3 Letter Domain Sales So Far This Year (01/01/2017 – 05/25/2017)
NEW YORK, NY – According to NameBio, there were a total of 119 reported LLL.org domain sales so far this year. The highest reported sales were the domains “ahr.org” for $16,000.00 with the second place name as “gem.org” for $12,500.00. 3 Letter .org domain names are hard to come by and you’ll never see them on sites like ExpiredDomains.net. They are quickly snapped up before they drop completely. Below are the top 100 LLL.org domain sales of this year which reflect … [Read more...]
Top 100 LLL.net 3 Letter Domain Sales So Far This Year (01/02/2017 – 05/20/2017)
NEW YORK, NY – According to NameBio, there were a total of 846 reported LLL.net domain sales so far this year. The highest reported sales were the domains “dgh.net” for $24,000.00 with the second place name as “cha.net” for $20,000.00. 3 Letter .net domain names are hard to come by and you’ll never see them on sites like ExpiredDomains.net. They are quickly snapped up before they drop completely. Below are the top 100 LLL.net domain sales of this year which reflect … [Read more...]
Top 100 LLLL.com 4 Letter Domain Sales So Far This Year (01/01/2017 – 05/31/2017)
NEW YORK, NY – According to NameBio, there were a total of 4,468 reported LLLL.com domain sales so far this year. The highest reported sales were the domains “Refi.com” for $500,000.00 (a cool half-million!) with the second place name as “Kohl.com” for $144,500.00. 4 Letter .com domain names are hard to come by and you'll never see them on sites like ExpiredDomains.net (I've been checking daily all year). Below are the top 100 LLLL.com domain sales of this year which … [Read more...]
Top 100 .Com Domain Name Sales So Far This Year (01/01/2017 – 06/02/2017)
NEW YORK, NY – According to NameBio, there were a total of 26,110 reported .com domain sales so far this year. The highest reported sales were the domains “Fly.com” for $2,890,000.00 (Almost 3 Million!) with the second place name as “Freedom.com” for $2,000,00.00. Below are the top 100 .com domain name sales of this year based on data from NameBio. Domain MLS platform Sedo yet again took the majority of sales transactions with 23 percent of the sales. During this period … [Read more...]
Top 100 .Org Domain Name Sales So Far This Year (01/06/2017 – 05/27/2017)
NEW YORK, NY – According to NameBio, there were a total of 1,451 reported .org domain sales so far this year totaling $584,650.00. The highest reported sales were the domains "RiseUp.org" for $75,000.00 with the second place name as "Convenience.org" for $55,000.00. Notably, the two highest priced .org domain sales here did beat-out the highest .nets within the same period, the overall numbers are lower than .net sales during the same period ($646,016.00). Below are the … [Read more...]
Google Will Pay $22M in Class Action Involving Ads on Parked Domains
NEW YORK, NY – I received an email this morning alerting me that I may be a member of class action suit where Google Inc. will pay $22,500,000.00 in a class action settlement sometime after July 27th of this year. The case is named in the email notification as “In Re Google AdWords Litigation, No. 5:08-cv-03369-EJD” The suit alleged Google failed to disclose to millions of advertisers participating in Google’s AdWords program that it placed ads on sites without developed … [Read more...]
Category Killer Domain Shoes.com Acquired in $9M Transaction by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY - According to domain name industry news publication DNJournal.com, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., owned subsidiary ShoeBuy, has acquired the Internet domain name Shoes.com in a $9,000,000.00 transaction which included the domain name from a bankruptcy of now defunct operator “Shoes.com Technologies”. A spokesperson for ShoeBuy told Footwear News that the move was part of the company’s larger digital goals. We plan to maximize Shoes.com as the gold standard of category … [Read more...]
Is There a Limit to Your gTLD Stupidity Meter? At $185k a-Pop, Who Cares Right?
NEW YORK, NY - There are a lot of cool looking domain name extensions hitting the market and making the rounds these days – so many in fact it is getting hard to keep up with them all. I mostly like the short ones which at least somewhat represent the Internet such as “.web”, “.site”, “.link”, etc. But who in their right mind would want to register and own a .motorcycles domain name? Could it be any longer? I mean, nine times out of ten the beginning word (what's left of the … [Read more...]
Review.info Sells for $6k on Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/03/2017 – 04/09/2017
NEW YORK, NY - Today, Sedo released its weekly sales list, a list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as Susen.com at $36,000.00 US, the top ccTLD as blackjack-vegas.de at 53,052.50 US and the top “other” TLD as review.info at 6,000.00 US. It is interesting to see a .info domain name sell for three times what its Estibot value shows it should be ($2,000.00). I like .info domains a lot - always have. It seems that every now … [Read more...]
Making Their Mark: “Big Brands” Invest Hundreds of Millions on .Dot Alternatives
NEW YORK, NY - Regardless of what your position is on new gTLD domains "Big Brands" are buying in hook, line and sinker while ICANN is raking in hundreds of millions of dollars on new gTLD fees. Each new application cost its applicant $185,000.00 and with it, an annual maintenance fee of $24,000.00 (yearly recurring). This doesn't include potentially hundreds of generic domains that were applied for and went to auction (I didn't count each one [Full statistics here] … [Read more...]
Audio Arguments for ‘Calculated Theft’ Attempt of HeidiPowell.com Domain
NEW YORK, NY - For those who are unaware of the backstory behind the failed cyber-squatting attempt by Arizona Heidi in her effort to steal the online identity of the original Heidi Powell, the effort continues via opening of an old bankruptcy case to acquire the domain name HeidiPowell.com. UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE before Honorable Marc Barreca, Chapter 7, Hearing Date: March 22, 2017, Hearing Time: 10:00 a.m. Even if … [Read more...]
EFTY: Your Own Domain Store Without Having to Build It Yourself; Seems Good
NEW YORK, NY - About a week or so ago I signed up for an EFTY (https://www.efty.com) 30-day trial account to test the platform as a way to have a domain store for some of the domains I would like to eventually sell. I already tried SEDO to sell names as well as DomainNameSales.com and some other places too but what I found interesting about EFTY was the store portion of the platform - and it is responsive (mobile friendly). As a side-note: Back in the old days when the … [Read more...]
Just 2% of Top 100 Highest Priced .xyz Domains In Use for Bonafide Services
NEW YORK, NY - According to nTLDStats.com, a data provider offering statistics for new gTLDs, the .xyz domain has the highest number of registrations out of all new gtld domains available. Looking at the highest value sold .xyz domains in all reported aftermarket sales, 98% of them are not developed or show any signs by their owners for development in the future. Out of the 100 domains checked, just two (2) of them are developed with one (1), spring.xyz, looking like it … [Read more...]