NamesCon Global 2020, the Domain Economic Forum, continues today at Austin Texas for the 2nd day. The popular domain name conference runs from Wednesday January 29th up to Saturday February 1st, 2020. NamesCon is taking place at the Omni Hotel’s downtown Austin location. The exhibition area, breakout sessions, and workshops — as well as the [...] Continue reading →

A box machinery company, business credit provider, and facilities management company bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale of the week was Apuestas.es for €111,625. At the time of writing, it’s not clear who bought the domain but apuestas is Spanish for ‘bets’, so you can bet it was a gaming company. Here’s a [...] Continue reading →

Sedo and InterNetX – our kind sponsors – have collected, processed, and analyzed the domain industry’s data, producing the “Global Domain Report” for 2020. The 38-page report is based on internal data analysis of more than 130 million domains, and has been enriched with data verified from third party sources. The Global Domain Report provides [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on January 29, 2020. 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 where [...] Continue reading →

The NamesCon 2020 live domain name auction takes place today. 136 domain names will be auctioned. The Premium Live Domain Auctions takes place at the NamesCon Global Conference 2020 in Austin, Texas starting Thursday January 30, 2020 at 4:30 PM CST (US Central Time). The Premium Live Domain will end at about 7:30 pm CST. [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday was the first day of the conference and it was exactly why I come to the show. You get to talk in person, to people you chat with off and on with all year but get to see their expressions and reactions you can’t get through text and emails. Being in [...] Continue reading →

The XYZ Registry announced this week they’ve acquired 5 more new gTLDs taking their tally of new gTLDs to 17. These 5 new gTLDs will become available to the public in 2020. The first to be announced is .quest, the others haven’t been announced, and .xyz [...] Continue reading →