Today: NamePros really did good calling a lot of trends / The Appraisal of ColumbusBeautySalon.com / Evaluating 88888.mx / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Evaluating 88888.mx – Are you investing [...] Continue reading →

eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. eBay is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 32 countries, as of 2019. The company manages the eBay website, an online auction and shopping website in which people [...] Continue reading →

These three domain names below have ZERO bids and all end in the next few hours, so will you be trying to snag any of these three domain names for $12 bucks? SpringBreakRentals.com – Registered in 1999, this 24-year-old dot com might be a seasonal domain name but you could build a great Air BnB [...] Continue reading →

The 2023 edition of NamesCon Global is coming up in just over a month from now. The annual domain industry conference is being held at the Omni Hotel Downtown in Austin, Texas from May 31 – June 3. I received an email from conference organizers this morning announcing the entire conference agenda has been released [...] Continue reading →

Future new gTLD application rounds will likely have three extra travel-related strings up for grabs, after the barely-precedented decision by a registry operator to dump three generic, non-branded strings. Travel Reservations Srl, the registry owned by Despegar, one of South America’s largest online travel booking services, has told ICANN to tear up its contracts for [...] Continue reading →

Language proposed for Verisign’s .net registry contract that some say would give governments the ability to arbitrarily seize domains is already present in the company’s .com contract. As I reported earlier this month, the .net Registry Agreement is up for renewal and ICANN has opened up some largely uncontroversial proposed changes for public comment. ICANN [...] Continue reading →

Giuseppe Graziano published the Liquid Market Report for Q1 2023. Over $15m in LL.com sales volume helped boost the quarter. – Q1 2023 was an absolute record quarter. With over $43M in escrow.com reported sales, it eclipsed the now second best quarter (Q4 2021) which came during a peak stock and crypto market. – The [...] Continue reading →