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345 Domain Discoveries for December 21st

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 [...]

$529k in Sales on December 20th – PayCard.com sold for $100,000 – Daily Market Report

NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was PayCard.com which sold for $100,000 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 482 sales $100+ for a total of $501,583 with an average sale price of [...]

IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Saturday, December 21st

DSAD.com: Click the links for current prices, most links are commissionable and fund the operation. Dynadot All Dynadot links are commissionable otakufr.co ofyp.com ChampionTrees.org desawisatabali.com tjmi.com GabrielaMartinez.com RiverOaksGardenClub.org pfiesteria.org aqrquantify.net BuyProjectors.com [...]

Domain Name Sale Stats 19th December 2024 | Highest Sale a .ai $95,000

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, [...]

Get Ready for Public Auction Events

Atom.com: At Atom.com, we’re always pushing the boundaries to create better opportunities for domain sellers and buyers. Following the launch of our Wholesale Auctions, which introduced a unique combination of forward [...]

Bluesky app updates its domain-friendly process

DomainGang.com: Bluesky has been gaining popularity as a free social media app that presents a Twitter-like (now X) environment, free of bots and musky toxicity. For a while now, Bluesky users [...]

AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 19, 2024

DSAD.com: A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 19, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable [...]

DotCom tagger busted

Domain Name Wire: Government wants graffiti artist behind “DotCom” tags to pay restitution. Ever since moving to Seattle, I’ve gotten a kick out of a graffiti tag I see around town: [...]

AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 18, 2024

DSAD.com: A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 18, 2024. GoDaddy Names at Auction Click Here if you are unable [...]

Florida county implements domain monitoring after large scam

DomainGang.com: Volusia county officials in Florida implemented domain monitoring, after a scam involved the creation of emails on a similar domain name. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood announced the arrest of [...]

Green.Earth Sets .Earth Sales Record

DomainInvesting.com: I’ve known Phil Harris for many years. He was one of the first people I know who invested heavily in the new gTLD domain names. Phil still owns a portfolio [...]

Dropped Domains, December 20: RankingGuy.com, AuthenticDads.com, EpicMeditation.com and 132 More!

Andrei Polgar: All of the 135 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, [...]

DomainTools Warning About “Possible Deprecation of Whois Services”

DomainInvesting.com: I use DomainTools on a daily basis for domain name research. From learning about domain names that changed hands to tracking the history of domain name Whois records, DomainTools offers [...]

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

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 [...]

Kudos for Colin Campbell - Serial Entrepreneur's Best Selling Book Earns a Coveted Star from Kirkus Reviews as One of the Year's Best

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 [...]

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

.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 [...]

.AI Obliterates the Competition, Sweeping 15 of 20 Entries on Our Latest Top 20 Domain Sales Chart

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 1st Edition of WebMix Confirmed Poland's Place as an Important Player in the Global Domain Industry

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 [...]

10 New Interviews in 2024 All About Domains E-Paper from InterNetX Provide Insight Into the Latest Developments Shaping the Industry Today

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 [...]

Powerful Performance from the Domain Aftermarket Another Reason to Be Grateful Going Into Thanksgiving Weekend

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 [...]

Big Changes in Store for NamesCon Global 2025 - The Show is Moving to Miami With a New U.S. Management Team

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. [...]

Domain Industry Artists Included in New .ART Odyssey Book That Measures Success by Creativity, Resilience and Innovation

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 [...]

Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr Reflects on Enthusiastic Industry Reaction to 2nd Annual Event

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 [...]

Mystery of UFO Seen Over Dubai During 2024 Domain Days Conference Solved - Mark This One Up to Sedo!

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 [...]

Domain Aftermarket Remains All in on AI - 8 of the Top 10 Sales on DNJournal's Latest Chart Are .AI Including the Top Two

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 [...]

The Definitive Domain Days Dubai 2024 Review - An Hour By Hour Look at How Organizers Dazzled Attendees From Around the World

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, [...]

Domain Days Dubai 2024 Wraps Up an Energizing Two Day Run - Here Are Some Early Highlights from the Big Event

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 [...]

Global Domain Registrations Rose By 3 Million Since Last Year But New Verisign Report Shows .Com and .Net Down, ccTLDs and Non .Com gTLDs Up

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 [...]

All Systems Go for Sold Out 2nd Annual Edition of Domain Days Dubai - Rapidly Growing Event Will Include Middle East's 1st Major Online Domain Auction

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 [...]

Now For Something Completely Different - Domain Star Jen Sale's "Ten With Jen" on YouTube

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 [...]

Year's Biggest Domain Sale to Date Rockets to the Top of the Charts, 8-Figure Blockbuster is Backed By a Trio of 6-Figure Sales:

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 [...]

The Big Bang Moment for Domain Investing - How the 1st TRAFFIC Conference Ignited a New Industry 20 Years Ago

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 [...]

PIR Announces .ORG of the Year Award Winner and Distributes $180,000 in Donations Across 7 Categories

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 [...]

.ART Announces Winner of 2024 Digital Innovation in Art Award & Free International .ARTist Day Online Conference October 25th

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 [...]