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Domain Name News2024-09-26T15:02:52-04:00

Domain News – Get the latest in domain sales and industry news! Here you will find recent sales, current domain news, and domains for sale. You can also check out our domain brokers blog here for more insight.

AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 17, 2024

 DSAD.com: A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 17, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable [...]

Creative directory platform Erria.xyz connects global talent across craft, art, and design

 Gen.XYZ: Erria.xyz – Squarespace customer – (United States)  Creative professionals and businesses use .xyz domains to establish dynamic online platforms. Investment-backed startup Contact.xyz helps industry creatives book jobs with brands like [...]

Swetha scores sweet Spectral.xyz sale!

 DomainGang.com: It’s the end of the year and prolific Indian domain investor Swetha Yenugula shared news of her latest domain sale via the Afternic platform. Spectral.xyz, a 2020 registration, was sold [...]

Sedo’s end user sales for this week:

 Domain Name Wire: Sedo had some strong sales heading into the holidays. The top sale for the week was mindsprint.com for $150,000. If I had to guess, I would say the [...]

397 Domain Discoveries for December 18th

 NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the [...]

$862k in Sales on December 17th – Betz.com sold for $240,000 – Daily Market Report

 NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was Betz.com which sold for $240,000 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 483 sales $100+ for a total of $834,227 with an average sale price of [...]

Domain Name Sale Stats 16th December 2024 | Highest Sale a .ai $88,000

 Crunch.id: A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, [...]

Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Monday,  December 16th, 2024

 DSAD.com: There as some things I just have to do manually. Not because they are more efficient but because I have to go through the process or I need them right [...]

Hugs and Kisses Abound on Both Sides After .ART Acquisition Gives Artists an Easy Way to Elevate ...

 DNJournal: .ART made a big move by acquiring HUG, a popular social marketplace co-founded by Randi Zuckerberg (whose brother is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerburg) and Debbie Soon. I happened to be [...]

Betz.com Sold For $240,000

 Domaining Tips: Today: MyAdsPlatform.com Appraisal / Dot Com Wanted – Budget $5,000 / Evaluation of TTS.AI and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: MyAdsPlatform.com Appraisal – Three [...]

Visiting GoDaddy’s AfternicBoost.com turns Boost ON or OFF

 DomainGang.com: If you want to try Afternic Boost, the increased domain visibility feature provided as an upgrade, there’s an easy, quick solution. It’s no longer necessary to wade through your Afternic [...]

New Verisign patent brings us back to the days Verisign promoted domain investing

 Domain Name Wire: Patent covers a tool designed to help domain investors find more domains to register. Based on what you read in its statements, you’d think Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) loathes [...]

James Booth brokers Jump.ai for $88,000

 DomainBlog.com: James Booth announced on X that he brokered Jump.ai for $88,000. You can see the seller owns quite a few .ai domain name sales. Remember James brokered this. https://gurge.com/domains.html Brokered [...]

Rentalend.com UDRP: Respondent won after spelling out the domain name!

 DomainGang.com: Talend S.A.S is a French company that owns a portfolio of trademark registrations for TALEND including European Trademark No. 014226989 registered on September 25, 2015. They filed a UDRP against [...]

Mike Mann sells 11 domains for $170,716 in October

 OnlineDomain.com: Mike Mann reported 11 of his domain name sales in October 2024. Reported prices started at $8,000 and went up to $49,888. Mike sold 11 .com domains. The average reported [...]

AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 16, 2024

 DSAD.com: A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 16, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable [...]

Dave Evanson brokers Betz.com for $240K

 TLDInvestors.com: Dave Evanson posted on X that he brokered Betz.com for $240,000. The domain name was registered in 2004. DotDB.com shows 109 extensions. Just sold https://t.co/kS0IM6aSq8 for $240,000! Congrats to buyer [...]

Dropped Domains, December 17: ExposingScams.com, Recontacting.com, QuickAntivirus.com and 120 More!

 Andrei Polgar: All of the 123 names below have been deleted yesterday and are available for registration at the moment of writing. If you end up registering domains from this list, [...]

MindSprint.com sells for $150K to lead Sedo this week

 DomainBlog.com: MindSprint.com sold for $150,000 to lead Sedo domain name sales this week. CoMind.com sold for 59,000 Euro, ($61,949). Space.co.uk sold for 35,000 GBP, ($44,472). OfficeAi.com sold for $12,000 Domain name [...]

Sedo weekly domain name sales led by MindSprint.com

 The Domains: Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and MindSprint.com led the way at $150,000. CoMind.com sold for 59,000 Euro, ($61,949). Space.co.uk sold for 35,000 GBP, ($44,472). 37 .com sales [...]

.ART made a big move by acquiring HUG, a popular social marketplace co-founded by Randi Zuckerberg (whose brother is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerburg) and Debbie Soon. I happened to be [...]

In over 20 years of posting domain sales charts we've never seen one that looked our latest one. While we have seen a single TLD sweep 15 or more entries [...]

The domain industry's 2024 global calendar was stuffed with an extraordinarily rich variety of conferences and events. The success of those many meetings underscored how broad the appeal of this [...]

I spent some of the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend catching up on my reading, with InterNetX's 2024 edition of their comprehensive All About Domains series of E-Papers at the top [...]

A trio of 6-figure sales led by one of the year's 10 biggest publicly reported sales to date led the charge on our latest chart. We also saw one of [...]

NamesCon Global is on the move and in more ways than one. NamesCon producers announced today that they are moving from Austin, Texas to Miami, Florida for the 2025 conference. [...]

The .ART Registry has released of the second annual issue of its .ART Odyssey publication: themed SUCCESS. This edition dives deep into the concept of success, reimagined through the lens [...]

It has been a very busy month for Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr. As soon as the 2024 show ended he had to head off to Istanbul for the [...]

After 10 years of know him, I was starting to believe Mark Ghoriafi could actually fly and after his latest stunt as a Premium Broker with Sedo, I'm sure of [...]

Just two years ago, if someone told you the ccTLD for the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla (.AI) would be lighting up domain sales charts like fireworks on New Year's [...]

With over 3 million residents already in its metropolitan area, Dubai is still one of the world's fastest growing cities. After just two events, the city's first major domain conference, [...]

The 2024 Domain Days Dubai (DDD) conference closed this evening with a Yacht Cruise that brought the curtain down on the the second annual event. DDD was created to focus [...]

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 3rd quarter of 2024. This update showed that the [...]

Domain Days Dubai (DDD) made a great first impression when conference founder Munir Badr and his team launched the event in November 2023. So much so that sponsorships and demand [...]

It seems like just about every well-known figure in the domain industry has their own blog, podcast or or social media platform. One thing they have all had in common [...]

The domain aftermarket has a new 2024 King of the Hill, a $14 million sale that almost doubled the price paid for the previous YTD chart topper. We also saw [...]

In October of 2004 the historic first domain conference in a game changing series of TRAFFIC shows was staged at the Delray Beach Marriott in Florida. That event was the [...]

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2024 .ORG Impact Awards. This 6th annual celebration recognized and rewarded outstanding mission-driven [...]

It has been a busy week for the .ART registry. On Tuesday they announced the winner of the prestigious Digital Innovation in Art Award 2024. GoDaddy VP Paul Nicks was [...]

Fall has arrived but domain sales are still flying high. Our latest domain sales report is out (after a one-week delay caused by Hurricane Milton) and the new Top 20 [...]

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