GoDaddy released today its January 2021 domain name sales report. The list is inclusive of all channels (GoDaddy, Afternic, Uniregistry) and the price listed is the final price paid by the buyer. You can see below the top 20 public domain sales for January 2021: Domain Sale Price steam.com $390,560 weshare.org $280,000 skweezer.net $144,000 btc365.com [...] Continue reading →

Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook have become key places for businesses to communicate with customers and even sell directly to consumers. Yet when it comes to actually making a purchase, do consumers trust a social media site over a domain? This is a relevant question for virtually every business. Earlier this [...] Continue reading →

Anyone who works in privacy is familiar with the term "data shadow": the digital record created by our transactions, our travels, our online activities. But where did the phrase come from? Who used it first? A number of authors have attributed it to Alan Westin, whose seminal book Privacy and Freedom (largely a [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and it was two different domain hacks taking the top spots. B.et sold for $100,000 and Samu.ai sold for $50,000. BCC.co.uk was third at 20,000 GBP, ($27,699). 41 .com sales 20 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    · carbon.network [...] Continue reading →

This newish startup made a big domain upgrade. Ribbon upgraded its domain to Ribbon.com. Founded in 2020, Ribbon is an online platform for live and recorded events that can integrate with services such as Zoom, while also offering email marketing solutions. In essence, it’s billed as a one-stop-shop for yoga studios, creators, and possibly even [...] Continue reading →

This morning on Twitter, Rick Schwartz announced his plans to open a domain name brokerage. Based on some of the hashtags and prior tweets, it would not surprise me if he launched a brand called Game Changing Domains with the matching GameChangingDomains.com domain name: I will be having a major announcement about a new #DomainBrokerage [...] Continue reading →

Energysquare tries to upgrade its domain name by abusing the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. A French company that licenses wireless charging technology has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain Energysquare.com. Energysquare uses the domain name Energysquare.co, so it’s obvious why it wanted to upgrade. The problem for [...] Continue reading →