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Domain Name News2024-12-18T18:19:39-05:00

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Paycard.com was sold for $100,000 via Sedo

 DomainGang.com: The domain name Paycard.com was sold via the Sedo domain platform for $100,000 dollars. The sale was announced today by Derick Clegg, Premium Domain Broker at Sedo.com, who noted: “Brokered [...]

Oppenheimer moment: Atom.com splits its domain landers

 DomainGang.com: The days of big, bulky “for sale” landers are over at Atom.com. In an Oppenheimer moment, the company announced that it has changed its focus for 2025 and beyond, by [...]

309 Domain Discoveries for December 20th

 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 [...]

$760k in Sales on December 19th – Articulate.ai sold for $95,000 – Daily Market Report

 NameBio.com: Namecheap had the top three sales yesterday led by Articulate.ai which sold for $95,000. NameBio recorded 477 sales $100+ for a total of $728,844 with an average sale price of [...]

Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Friday, December 20th, 2024

 DSAD.com: A nimble mind. It’s what keeps us learning. It’s what keeps up our youthful expressions. Our youthful inquisitiveness. When this is lost you have made the home turn towards end [...]

Domain Name Sale Stats 18th December 2024 | Highest Sale a .com $44,442

 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, [...]

Articulate.ai sells for $95K to lead a fresh batch of .ai domain sales

 TLDInvestors.com: Richard Kirkendall is back with a brand new list of .ai domain name sales. Articulate.ai sold for $95,000 followed by Raspberry.ai at $60,000. Obot.ai for $23,911 and Maggie.ai for $40,000 [...]

DomainTools: Possible deprecation of WHOIS services in 2025

 DomainGang.com: DomainTools, the quintessential tool that queries, stores, and analyzes WHOIS data, and more, shared news that is of importance to all domain investors. The company is warning of a “Possible [...]

Unstoppable Domains launches direct negotiations

 The Domains: I think it’s safe to say Unstoppable Domains is one of the new players that’s looking to be the new DAN. They are now giving customers complete control over [...]

Afternic top keywords for October 2024 – My keeps the top spot

 TLDInvestors.com: Afternic released their top keywords for October 2024. I apologize this data came out yesterday but I have not had Internet or cable since 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, it literally [...]

Vote for your favorite domain registrar before it’s too late!

 Domaining Tips: Today: How to determine the worth of a Domain? / Domain Sales Stats for December 17th, 2024 – Highest Sale was $240,000 / Evaluating ProcreatePros.net and More… Here are the new discussions [...]

Namecheap Publishes Results Naming Highest TLD, Domain Registrations for 2024

 StrategicRevenue.com: PHOENIX, AZ – One of the most well-known domain registrars in the world, Namecheap, has released the results of a study outlining the highest number of domains registered through its service in [...]

Afternic releases keyword and payment plan data

 Domain Name Wire: Take a look at top keywords, and the impact of offering payment plans on sale prices. It’s been a few months since I’ve reported on Afternic’s keyword data, [...]

DeFi platform Fission.xyz aims to reshape private equity with tokenized venture investments

 Gen.XYZ: Fission.xyz – GoDaddy customer – (United States)  Pioneering investment firms and platforms use .xyz domains to spotlight their mission and showcase innovative investment opportunities. VC firm QBITCapital.xyz focuses on driving [...]

Less is more: Atom introduces minimal landing pages

 Domain Name Wire: New option reduces the amount of clutter and distractions on for-sale pages. Domain sales platform Atom is known for trying new things, such as AI-written descriptions, down payments [...]

D3 and Dominion Join the Sponsors of the 2025 ICA Annual Member Meeting!

 Internet Commerce Association: We’re excited to welcome D3 to our growing lineup of sponsors for the upcoming ICA Member Meeting! As an ICA member and industry pioneer, D3 is committed to building on the [...]

Signals May Have Changed

 DomainInvesting.com: Throughout the last several years, the size of my portfolio has ballooned. For many years, I kept somewhere in the ballpark of 400 – 500 domain names in my portfolio. [...]

Dropped Domains, December 19: FoolishAdvice.com, ZeroDividend.com, DebtCleansers.com and 87 More!

 Andrei Polgar: All of the 90 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, [...]

Afternic: October’s top keywords in domain sales

 OnlineDomain.com: Afternic released its October’s top keyword list in domain name sales. The list gives insights into the keywords that are most popular with domain name buyers at Afternic. “My” holds [...]

361 Domain Discoveries for December 19th

 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 [...]

Colin Campbell wrote one of the best business books I've ever read - Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. (the end result of a 10-year journey) and it just won a huge [...]

.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 [...]

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