A crypto transaction is not a tax-free transaction. U.S. taxpayers who sell domain names for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether must report these as income on their income tax returns. For this year’s tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service is setting a trap for anyone who doesn’t report cryptocurrency profits. The Wall Street [...] Continue reading →

ICANN's chairman says meetings offer special "circumstantial opportunity"; recent estimates peg average annual expense for attending at $30,000 per person. Oops — he's done it again. The latest blog update from ICANN's current board chair needs — no, it demands — a spotlight on what is revealed in plain and [...] Continue reading →

The registry for the new .cpa gTLD reckons it has received “thousands” of applications for domains during its current launch period, potentially making it the most successful gTLD sunrise since 2012. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, which manages the TLD, said today: Well over half of the 100 biggest U.S. firms — as [...] Continue reading →

Some nouns have rarely-used plurals. I’ve acquired domain names to start businesses, and I’ve talked to lots of entrepreneurs when they were selecting their domain names. In some cases, they have their eye on a great one or two-word domain name. A question inevitably comes up, particularly for nouns: what about the plural/singular? If [...] Continue reading →

.Blog will soon release 47,000 3-character “premium” domain names. All 3-character .blog domains were reserved when .blog launched almost 4 years ago. That was simply a very bad move. The hype has since sailed and these domains will not get the same interest they would have at the time of the launch. These 47,000 domain [...] Continue reading →

I had a rare phone conversation with a friend about domain names yesterday. We chatted about the overall market, and I shared some of the recent pricing strategy I use when listing my domain names for sale on DAN.com and GoDaddy / Afternic. I thought I would share it here as well. Somewhere around 60% [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on September 24, 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 →