In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals that are live in the domain industry. Elsewhere, a domain investor reveals a $10,000 sale from a hand-registered name, and there's a new domaining podcast aggregator available. Also, a $45,000 buyer of HeyDay.co is unveiled. Black [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on November 28, 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 →

I can tell you as a retailer that COVID hasn’t stopped spending. Of course if you can’t stay open then it kills you, but if you have a business that people can spend money at they absolutely are. All that money that went to travel, eating out, social, etc. That’s [...] Continue reading →

NewportNews.com is a domain name that has quite the history. A former owner once defended a UDRP successfully but then lost an ACPA case. This led Michael Berkens to call this registrant stupid domainer of the year for 2011. Michael wrote: In 2009 Newport News won summary judgment against the domain holder and the court [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on November 27, 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 →

I might go cut down a Christmas tree today. I’m debating whether or not to even get one, since last year I didn’t remove it until April. I think I wrote about it, what a mess that was. I ruined a vacuum cleaner trying to clean up the needles. I think there’s a few [...] Continue reading →

Today: Sold a hand-regged 18 characters .com for $10,000 USD / Offer Received For 3 days Old .IO Domain – xx.xxx / EMD (Exact match domain) vs brandable – Why prefer one over other? / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye [...] Continue reading →