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Listed below are some notable domain and website sales last week at Flippa. Some domains that sold Sailing.info – $3,671 – Bidding was around $800 for two weeks of the listing, then the action heated up. Portfolio of 9 LLLL.com domains – $3,500 – YLOW.com, RYUZ.com, UYSH.com, IFDY.com and more. M.et – $2,250 Cloey.com [...] Continue reading
Sedo reported 571 transactions that took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: 5198.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: answers.tv at 22,500 EUR · Top “other” TLD: shou.net at 6,000 EUR [...] Continue reading
Just one month from today the 10th Anniversary edition of the pioneering TRAFFIC conference will get underway at the historic Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach. The show, which will run through Halloween weekend, will have TWO special events on the big holiday October 31. [...] Continue reading
I haven’t had a lot of free time lately to write out my thoughts about activity in the domain world. But I took the afternoon off to get some things done around the house (not going well). Here are 10 things that have crossed my mind lately. 1. The domain buyer FIRST is single [...] Continue reading
Following today’s announcement that Norway would start purchasing NOK 250 million per day in October using foreign currency from its oil revenue accounts, the krone appreciated roughly 1%. EURNOK is currently at 8.1164, USDNOK is at 6.4273. This is not a game changer. NOK 250 million equals only USD 36 million, and Norges Bank Governor Oeystein Olsen noted that this was [...] Continue reading
TeleSign Corporation, of California was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name PhoneId.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc, which was represented as usual by Esqwire.com According to my records its the 11th win in row for Esqwire.com and the 5th finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. The [...] Continue reading