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A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on April 29, 2021. 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 [...] Continue reading
Escrow.com, the quintessential escrow service for asset transactions that include domain names, released its quarterly results. The latest Domain Investment Index report covers Q1 of 2021, the first fiscal quarter of the year. It’s great to see analytical domain stats and figures from Escrow.com, a DomainGang sponsor, so early in 2021. According to the Escrow.com [...] Continue reading
Escrow.com has released its Q1 2021 Domain Investment Index report with domain name sales data from the first quarter. The high level overview is that “the market for domain names is stronger than ever.” Escrow.com handles a significant percentage of higher value domain name sales, and I believe their data offers a good look at [...] Continue reading
Four letter .com sells for big bucks. Shane Kinsch has cashed in again, this time selling the four letter domain name bico.com for $350,000. The buyer is a client of Ports Group AB, a brand management company. Lots of companies go by the name Bico and there are a couple of U.S. trademarks for [...] Continue reading
You’ve heard me say it several times but it really has been awesome watching two local business people become billionaires and internationally famous. Jimmy John of Jimmy John’s sandwhiches and Shad Khan of Jacksonville Jaguars both live in our town. Of course they both have several other homes but this is where they [...] Continue reading
ICANN’s primary name servers came under a distributed denial of service attack, the Org said earlier this week. The incident appears to have gone largely unnoticed outside of ICANN and seems to have been successfully mitigated before causing any significant damage. ICANN said on its web site: ICANN was subjected to a Distributed Denial of [...] Continue reading