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The Domains
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023, total volume at its highest since Q2 2022
Escrow.com (an advertiser here) published their Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023. Some highlights included a 61.6% increase in total domain sales vs Q4 2022. The median price of two and three letter .com domains had a slight increase from $45k to ...
Discussion
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023, total volume at its highest since Q2 2022
Escrow.com (an advertiser here) published their Domain Investment Index for Q1 2023. Some highlights included a 61.6% increase in total domain sales vs Q4 2022. The median price of two and three letter .com domains had a slight increase from $45k to ...
Discussion
May 30, 2023, 1:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
List for Sale – DNW Podcast #438
Listing domains for sale is about to get easier. It might be difficult to remember, but there was a time when aftermarket domain name transactions were much more complex. If a buyer in China wanted your domain, they had to go to the landing page wher...
Discussion
List for Sale – DNW Podcast #438
Listing domains for sale is about to get easier. It might be difficult to remember, but there was a time when aftermarket domain name transactions were much more complex. If a buyer in China wanted your domain, they had to go to the landing page wher...
Discussion
May 29, 2023, 3:30 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – May 26, 2023: Raising The Bar: DLVRY.com, InMind.com, Weed.tv, DevilsAdvocate.com
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 11:57 mark), where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for and discuss the reasons behi...
Discussion
DomainSherpa Review – May 26, 2023: Raising The Bar: DLVRY.com, InMind.com, Weed.tv, DevilsAdvocate.com
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 11:57 mark), where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for and discuss the reasons behi...
Discussion
May 26, 2023, 7:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
$1.4 million of previously unreleased new TLD sales:
New TLD sales of up to $250,000. Identity Digital has released to Domain Name Wire the details of 36 “platinum” domain name sales from recent years. Platinum domains are ones that the registry held back for sale to customers. All but one ...
Discussion
$1.4 million of previously unreleased new TLD sales:
New TLD sales of up to $250,000. Identity Digital has released to Domain Name Wire the details of 36 “platinum” domain name sales from recent years. Platinum domains are ones that the registry held back for sale to customers. All but one ...
Discussion
May 26, 2023, 1:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chat.com sells for 8 figures AGAIN
He might have sold it to the other company that tried to buy it earlier. Earlier this year, entrepreneur Dharmesh Shah acquired chat.com for over $10 million. He just flipped the domain name. Shah posted on LinkedIn this morning that he sold the doma...
Discussion
Chat.com sells for 8 figures AGAIN
He might have sold it to the other company that tried to buy it earlier. Earlier this year, entrepreneur Dharmesh Shah acquired chat.com for over $10 million. He just flipped the domain name. Shah posted on LinkedIn this morning that he sold the doma...
Discussion
May 25, 2023, 4:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Voice over domain names? Namecheap files interesting patent application
Namecheap’s application describes a way to call people by domain name. Domain name registrar Namecheap has filed a U.S. patent application for a “domain communication system.” The application (pdf) describes a system where you can c...
Discussion
Voice over domain names? Namecheap files interesting patent application
Namecheap’s application describes a way to call people by domain name. Domain name registrar Namecheap has filed a U.S. patent application for a “domain communication system.” The application (pdf) describes a system where you can c...
Discussion
May 25, 2023, 3:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Malware claim leads to reverse domain name hijacking
Complainant cited Whois privacy service’s details to suggest an association with malware distribution. Markel Corporation has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name MarkelGroup.com. The company filed a UDRP compl...
Discussion
Malware claim leads to reverse domain name hijacking
Complainant cited Whois privacy service’s details to suggest an association with malware distribution. Markel Corporation has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name MarkelGroup.com. The company filed a UDRP compl...
Discussion
May 24, 2023, 3:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Painless.com UDRP is painful
Ouch. A dental supply company has lost a cybersquatting dispute in which it tried to grab the valuable domain painless.com. Benco Dental Supply Co. filed a UDRP with National Arbitration Forum against Pain Management, Inc. As the registrant’s n...
Discussion
Painless.com UDRP is painful
Ouch. A dental supply company has lost a cybersquatting dispute in which it tried to grab the valuable domain painless.com. Benco Dental Supply Co. filed a UDRP with National Arbitration Forum against Pain Management, Inc. As the registrant’s n...
Discussion
May 24, 2023, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s ccTLD end user domain sales bonanza
A florist, a dream interpretation site, and a furniture design company bought domain names. China, Germany, Italy, Austria, United States. Sedo is the king of country code domain names, and this week’s end user sales chart is a prime example. c...
Discussion
This week’s ccTLD end user domain sales bonanza
A florist, a dream interpretation site, and a furniture design company bought domain names. China, Germany, Italy, Austria, United States. Sedo is the king of country code domain names, and this week’s end user sales chart is a prime example. c...
Discussion
May 23, 2023, 3:57 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by zCompany.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and zCompany.com led the way at 16,000 Euro, ($17,234). Parrot.us was second at $12,000 and Meucassino.com was third at 10,000 Euro, ($10,771). 36 .com sales 20 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Highlights of ...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by zCompany.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and zCompany.com led the way at 16,000 Euro, ($17,234). Parrot.us was second at $12,000 and Meucassino.com was third at 10,000 Euro, ($10,771). 36 .com sales 20 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Highlights of ...
Discussion
May 23, 2023, 1:50 pm
