NEW YORK - By the time I started visiting domain conferences in person, unfortunately, what I feel was the greatest domain conference of all time, Howard Neu and Rick Schwartz’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C., had seen its last days. I wish it weren’t so. I think the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences were the best respected domain conferences in history; I can only wish that Howard and Rick, for whatever reason, will team up again and bring it back one day, because everything else, in my opinion, … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 05/08/2018 – 05/14/2018
NEW YORK, NY – Recently 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 IXA.com at 25,000 EUR ($29,609.62 US), the top ccTLD as NX.de at 33,320 EUR ($39,465.81 US) and the top other as BroadwayTickets.nyc at $25,000 USD. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 05/08/2018 – 05/14/2018. Domain … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 05/01/2018 – 05/07/2018
NEW YORK, NY – Much like the previous list, this one is also a little late due to the holiday weekend. Recently 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 EasternUnion.com at $18,000 USD, the top ccTLD as Weltkirche.de at 7,999 EUR ($9,575.11 US) and the top other as Jiami.org at 4,999 EUR ($5,984.00 US). Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 05/01/2018 - … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/23/2018 – 04/29/2018
NEW YORK, NY – This list is a little late, but as these Sedo lists are a big hit with readers, it's not worth missing it. Recently 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 MicroMobility.com at $50,000 USD, the top ccTLD as App.co at 20,000 USD and the top other as My.bio at 49,900 EUR ($59,767.63 US). Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 04/23/2018 – … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/09/2018 – 04/15/2018
NEW YORK, NY – 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 Stelline.com at $20,000 USD, the top ccTLD as Ilmiotappeto.it at 5,450 EUR and the top other as Penta.org at 5,000 USD. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 04/09/2018 - 04/15/2018. Domain … [Read more...]
The Birth of ICANN: “The Green Paper”
NEW YORK - In 1997, the United States government under then President Clinton began processes to remove its control over the Domain Name System by creating research and dialog on how control of domain names and IP addresses should be handled in the future - by a non-profit organization in the private sector. This resulted in a document which has become known as "The Green Paper" originally named "A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Releases Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/02/2018 – 04/08/2018
NEW YORK, NY – 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 Closers.com at $50,000 US, the top ccTLD as Network.co.uk at 9,800 GBP and the top other as Live.casino at 24,500 GBP. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 04/02/2018 – 04/08/2018. Domain … [Read more...]
Super Great Week for Liquid Domains Worthy of Very – Very Close Inspection!
NEW YORK, NY – The year seems off to a good - no - great start, with lots of single word .com domain names and one .org topping the charts, thanks in part to NameJet, ROTD, and the NamesCon Auction which has led to several of these closed transactions as of late. Also worth mentioning is the ‘out of the ordinary’ colossal .org sale of Star.org, at SEDO for $225,000.00 (the highest sale through SedoMLS channel to date according to SEDO’s PR and marketing team), Wow! .COM … [Read more...]
A “PRIME” Example That .COM Leads in Necessity; nGTLDs Registered Defensively
NEW YORK, NY – It has been recently discovered, that the single word domain name Prime.com, which had been reportedly for sale in the seven figure range (Between $1M and $5M), at least since 2011, is now intellectual property of tech-giant Amazon. The name, which was originally registered in 1987, shows being parked since 2004 via archive. An exact ‘price’ of the domain is not currently known (although I am sure someone out there is working diligently to try and dig … [Read more...]
Someone Caught Great Deal at Flippa; How Is This Domain Venue Performing for You?
NEW YORK, NY - Someone landed a fantastic deal on Flippa this weekend. Amazingly, I lost the auction despite my accidental astronomical one-too-many zero’s high-bid. I’m not going to mention what domain it was (to avoid any politics on the issue), [all luck to the winner who got a great deal] but the domain name was a single word .com highly-commercial term with an Estibot well over $200,000.00 and it sold for about 9 percent of that. Not a .net domain selling for 9%, but … [Read more...]
Top 100 .COM Domain Names; All Time, Public Sales Listings at NameBio.com
NEW YORK, NY - The following list is the top 100 .com domain names that have sold and been reported (on record) at NameBio. It is nice to take a look at the list every once in a while to remind yourself of some of the largest sales and what these little gems of virtual real estate are worth; enjoy. All prices are in … [Read more...]
Remove Other TLDs from Equation and NamesCon 2018 Still Reflects ‘Great’ Year
NEW YORK, NY - This morning I wanted to look at the live auction results for NamesCon over the last three years, what's on record at NameBio, which is here. That list showed that not only was there a slight rebound in total domain sales this year, but that the 2018 live auction netted the largest dollar amount total over the three year period. It also showed that the percentage of transactions for .com domains grew over the period with 56% being .com in 2016, 63% in 2017, … [Read more...]
Last Three Years of NamesCon Live Auction Shows Slight Rebound in Average Prices
NEW YORK, NY - Looking at the last three years of NamesCon live auction sales totals shows a slight bump in domain prices from last year. Even without 2018's leading sale, Great.com, which sold for $900,000.00, the numbers still look pretty decent. Below are the last three years of domain name sales from the live auction results, according to NameBio.com. Along with those sales and sales prices is the average sale price without each auctions top performing domain for that … [Read more...]
CBS News Offers Readers ‘Bad Advice’ in 6 Best Practices for Choosing a Domain
NEW YORK, NY – Usually when you read an article in Google News, you expect it to give you some good advice, especially when it is a reputable news website. That’s not what happened today when Google News led me to question whether or not I was even on a real news website. Rather than focusing so much on cleaning up Facebook and Twitter, maybe Google should check their own inclusion practices. The article is on CBS News Detroit and it is called “6 Best Practices for Choosing … [Read more...]
Final Day for NameJet, Right of the Dot, NamesCon 2018 Online Auction
NEW YORK, NY – Good deals and little time is left for the NamesCon, NameJet, and Right of the Dot live auction which began in Las Vegas. Most if not all auctions end within a few hours from now which puts both the East and West coast of the United States in the game to grab some deals by this afternoon. There are a good number of domains that are still showing no reserve and have no bids, so this is an opportunity to grab some names which there will be little fighting … [Read more...]