Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network. From the article: A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor [...] Continue reading →

Burl.com sold for the third time in 12 years and the second time in less than one year. The domain closed at $24,555 on NameJet and was the top close for Wednesday. The name sold for just $5,088 in April of 2018. That sale was down from the previous sale 11 years before at $5,805. [...] Continue reading →

  Google has now got hit with their third huge fine from the EU, €1.49 billion, ($1.7 billion) this time around, which is the third highest fine they have had to pay. This was in regards to Adsense, Venture Beat wrote: In those previous filings, the EU noted that Google had originally required some sites, [...] Continue reading →

In a thread on Namepros about Rob Monster and Epik, Joseph Peterson posted an interesting tidbit, one that if it plays out as Joseph speculates it could, will affect all the big players in the domain aftermarket space and domain investors as well. The history starts on another thread, it’s very long and you can [...] Continue reading →

Page Howe was mentioned in an article on ieee.org. The article took a look at emoji domains and why they do or don’t make sense. Page has been outspoken about his belief in emoji domains and gets a couple paragraphs. From the article: People like Page Howe, a domain and digital asset investor, are bullish on [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly sales and Vivlio.com led the way at $25,000. Mandom.com was second at 20,000 Euros, ($22,714).   Domain name Price Currency .COMs vivlio.com 25,000 USD mandom.com 20,000 EUR niq.com 19,000 USD kgbank.com 15,000 USD date247.com 15,000 USD nowos.com 13,000 USD artificer.com 12,000 USD neksa.com 9,900 USD futurefactor.com 8,500 USD postcodesoftware.com 8,495 USD [...] Continue reading →

via GIPHY Think domain names are getting expensive? A racing pigeon just sold for $1.8 million. Apparently pigeon racing is big business in China. The National Post wrote a story, from the article: The victorious pigeon fancier, whose identity is a secret, spent more than $1.8 to land Armando, a Belgian bird considered to be [...] Continue reading →