Yesterday morning, I published an article about the apparent sale of the Gold.com domain name. The domain name appears to have been sold by a subsidiary of a major jewelry retail chain for an undisclosed amount of money. In response to my tweet about that sale, Josh Schoen mentioned that the Ruby.com domain name had [...] Continue reading →

The sale of PIR, the company that runs the .org domain name registry, has attracted a lot of interest since it was first announced back in mid-November. The latest group to enter the fray is the Number Resource Organisation (NRO) which represents the interests of the five regional internet registries [...] Continue reading →

Happy last day of 2019. My resolution is to not be a lazy domainer in 2020. :) Have a great New Year. Main List       NameJet          Flippa/Sedo    LLLL.com’s       LLL, CCC, 5L       Other LLLL’s Short Brandables         Numbers       One Worders    Vape, Vegan, VR [...] Continue reading →

Country code sales ticked up in 2019 versus the last two years. Over dollar volumes were slightly up, with the number of total sales up substantially vs 2018. Average sale price was down vs 2018 by just under $700. 2017 5,885 Total Sales$9.8m Dollar Volume$1,664 Average Price$237.5k High Price 2018 4,251 Total Sales$9.8m Dollar Volume$2,301 [...] Continue reading →

At this time of year, I like to take a few minutes to think about the state of the domain industry and what I personally managed to accomplish over the past year. In many respects, I’m finding that 2019 was tremendously positive for the different business domain business models this has setup 2020 to [...] Continue reading →

Microsoft has taken control of 50 domains used by a North Korean cybercrime group dubbed "Thallium" to steal information from users, including government employees, think tanks, university staff members, and those working on nuclear proliferation issues. "Our court case against Thallium, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, resulted in [...] Continue reading →

Handley's simulation shows that, while not as fast as an equivalent ISLL path, long bent-pipe paths would typically have lower latency than terrestrial fiber routes between the same two points. Mark Handley, a professor at University College London, has made two terrific videos based on runs of his simulation of the first — [...] Continue reading →