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The domain aftermarket continues to run at full throttle with impressive sales being posted in all categories. [...] Continue reading
Domain sightings are random encounters with domain names, but not on the internet: in real life. Domain names appear “in the wild” on vehicles, street and business signs, along with product packaging. We group these domain sightings into .com sightings, and everything else. This time around we came across a very fun, two word domain, [...] Continue reading
Please provide me with data to estimate the size of the domain name aftermarket. How big is the domain name aftermarket? How much dollar volume of domain names sell on the aftermarket each year? It’s a challenging question to answer, which is why estimates vary widely. It’s hard to come up with accurate numbers [...] Continue reading
Verisign’s affinity for cognitive dissonance has emerged yet again — it’s now claiming that it needs to be awarded the .web gTLD because it’s running out of .com domains to sell. In legal documents released by ICANN yesterday, Verisign’s lawyers say: “The undisputed evidence is that Verisign needs a TLD like .WEB for growth given [...] Continue reading
Mike Mann had a very good month in March and that was mainly because of a 6-figure domain sale of a 2-word domain. Mike Mann reported 14 of his domain name sales in March 2021 for a total of $578,995. Reported prices started at $1,888 and went up to $300,000. Mike sold 14 .com domains. [...] Continue reading
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on April 13, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve. I’m only showing [...] Continue reading
Bloomberg publishes a story about Nick Lim, who sold BitMitigate to Epik. Bloomberg Businessweek cover Bloomberg has published a profile of Nick Lim, who sold his company BitMitigate to Epik in 2019. Lim has since left Epik but remains a shareholder. He now spends his time helping sites favored by White supremacists and QAnon followers [...] Continue reading
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