This is the first in a series of posts covering top stories in the domain industry from 2019. In 2010, the domain name Sex.com sold for $13 million. It was a record for a cash transaction. I’ve heard whispers of other, bigger domain sales since then. But none of them have ever been publicly [...] Continue reading →

A response I have come to see regularly in a domain name sales negotiation is that the prospect is content building the business on Facebook, Instagram, or another social media platform. Because they had some success building a following (and possibly a business) via social media channels, some business operators seem content continuing down that [...] Continue reading →

Postmark, an email delivery provider founded in 2010, has been operating on the PostmarkApp.com domain name. It looks like Postmark has secured its brand match Postmark.com domain name, according to a tweet from Jamie Zoch: PostmarkApp(.)com does a big domain name #upgrade and acquires exact match, brand protecting, premium domain name https://t.co/Uaw0SH2BiW from its past [...] Continue reading →

You ever read an article and feel like it could have just as easily been a tweet? Sites live on traffic and in order to get traffic they are forced to take another persons article, add their opinion in short little piece, and then link to the original site at the end. [...] Continue reading →

Los TLD (Top-Level-Domain), son los conocidos como dominios de nivel superior, y es la mayor categoría de estas extensiones en la red. Hoy en día existen numerosos dominios TLD, que se pueden clasificar por: – Territorios o naciones (ccTLD). – Los patrocinados (sTLD). – Los no patrocinados (uTLD). [...] Continue reading →

Now that I’ve been in South Korea for about a week I can tell you that .kr and .co.kr are everywhere, seriously, just about every ad, billboard, receipt, etc. has a .kr or .co.kr domain on it. Earlier this week I wrote an article about the sales history of .kr [...] Continue reading →

Kassey Lee explains why two-letter domain names aren’t valuable in China just because they are rare. Recently a domain investor asked me if ST has any meaning in Chinese. That got me thinking about 2L (letter-letter) domains in general. In fact, 2L domains are very valuable not only because they are scarce, but also, [...] Continue reading →