It’s been 20 years since my first domain sale took place in the summer of 2000, and boy, do I feel like it was yesterday. Despite not using any type of escrow and receiving a check from overseas in exchange for the domain, that first experience was a smooth event. The reason: I was dealing [...] Continue reading →

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

New gTLD registry MMX saw its revenue dip in the first half of the year, even as the number of domain names it sold increased. The company today reported a net profit after tax of $1.2 million, down from $1.7 million a year ago, on revenue that was down 5% at $8.5 million. But billings [...] Continue reading →

Here’s an updated list of registrars in China, and how you can interact with some of them in English. Based on the “Internet and Domain Industry Report” (Chinese) published in June this year, here’s the updated list of the Top 10 domain registrars in China. Rank Registrar Chinese Domain English? [...] Continue reading →

Andrew Rosener and his Domain Sherpa team published a video interview with Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor. Microstrategy is the publicly traded company that sold Voice.com for $30 million last year – the largest all-cash domain name sale of all time. Michael is a big believer in the value of domain names, and he previously shared [...] Continue reading →

A plant proteins company, a music streaming service, and a bug tracking app bought domain names at Sedo this past week. When is the last time you saw a .ws domain on a sales list? Let alone for thousands of dollars? It happened this week with a sale that almost broke the existing record [...] Continue reading →

Sahil Gupta, wanna be thief of the domain name Spase.com, falsely reported me on Twitter yesterday. He blocked my account for 12 hours. This is Sahil Gupta’s story of attempting to steal a domain name AND repeatedly being a liar. Sahil Gupta blatantly lied once again, this time on Twitter, just like how he did [...] Continue reading →