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An unprecedented theft has occurred in the domain space as the European Country of France has stolen the Internet domain name France.com from its owner, who according to a lawsuit filed this month in California “has lawfully owned and used the domain name in commerce since 1994.” Although...

The top sale of the day was 22278.com which sold for $13,750 at GoDaddy. NameBiorecorded 227 sales for a total of $117,100 with an average sale price of $516. Compared to the previous day there was a decrease of 7% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount decreased by 6%. Sales With...

Verisign reported first-quarter financial results that reflected a healthier .com namespace following the spike caused by Chinese speculation in 2016. The company Friday reported that .com was up to 133.9 million domains at the end of March, an increase of 5.5 million over the year. The strong...

Kuwait Finance House has become the latest new gTLD registry to get slapped with an ICANN breach notice for not paying its quarterly fees. The company is a 40-year-old, Sharia-compliant Kuwaiti bank managing assets of $55.52 billion, according to Wikipedia. It has annual revenue in excess of...

This week we talk about new top level domain names with Sandeep Ramchandani, CEO of Radix. Radix is a portfolio new TLD company that focuses on generic extensions such as .online and .site. Sandeep reveals the company’s results so far, talks about how to value a top level namespace, discusses...

RetailX.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client at domain name aftermarket service Afternic for an undisclosed amount. PTSHealth.com has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client. The transaction took place at Sedo and sold for $2,788 with the...

A company called Dribbble (notice the 3 “b’s” in its branding) filed a UDRP to try and wrest control of the Dribble.com domain name, which had been owned by the registrant since 1997. As I suspected when I saw the initial UDRP filing, the domain owner won the UDRP proceeding and will be allowed...

There were quite a few notable sales last week. DomainMarket.com claimed the top spot again with the $65,000 sales of BetterFuture.com. uMedia.com, a domain name first registered in 1995 went to expired auction at GoDaddy and bidding ended at a whopping $21,250 which seems very high for a...

Recently I was talking with another startup founder about domains (yes this happens quite a bit) and she asked a really good question – how do .IO prices compare to .COM. I didn’t have a great answer so thought I would do a little bit of research and find some comparable sales. Here’s a few...

Way back in 2005, the huge social networking website known today as ‘Facebook’ began getting serious and received its first financial investment from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Shortly thereafter, the dorm room social project which began as TheFacebook.com, recognized the need for a shorter...

So after 4 hours of intrigue and guesses on Twitter, George Kirikos reveals that he discovered the 7 figure sale of Goto.com. GotoMeeting.com was the buyer. From Sec Filings: During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire a domain name for $2.5...

NameJet had the top five sales yesterday led by Intellisys.com which sold for $6,389. NameBio recorded 244 sales for a total of $124,911 with an average sale price of $512. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 2% in the number of sales but the total dollar amount decreased by...

To comply with the European GDPR Directive, ISNIC will, before May 25th, stop publishing names, addresses and telephone numbers of personal contacts by default from the ISNIC WHOIS database. Customers (individuals) who wish to continue to publish their information, must log in, go to “My...

A domain name can’t be renewed in bad faith under UDRP. A chain of coffee shops has tried (and failed) to use the “renewed in bad faith” argument in a cybersquatting dispute. Revelry Partners, LLC, which runs coffee and wine bars by the name Ascension Coffee, filed a UDRP against...

Sedo had the top four sales yesterday led by KnowYourMoney.com which sold for $30,000. NameBio recorded 239 sales for a total of $216,577 with an average sale price of $906. Compared to the previous day there was a decrease of 5% in the number of sales but the total dollar amount increased by...

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I was looking at LinkedIn this afternoon, and I realized their search stats tool can be invaluable in helping to identify a prospective buyer for a domain name. LinkedIn shows users the number of times their profile appeared in their search stats. It also shows “Where your searches work.” This...

I shared 3 tips to Discover Expired Domains Available at Hand-Registration Fee at the end of last year. As a follow up, I’m sharing another method to discover available domains using GoDaddy’ Watching feature. It’s not really a “new” feature as some of you may recall a brief experiment by...

I’ve created the GoDaddy Domain Discount Club Breakeven Calculator that you can use with some of the major top-level domains like .com, .net and .org, as well as a catch-all .other top-level domain box for all your other domain names. Scroll down below this video, or if you’re on YouTube click...

VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported first quarter 2018 earnings after the bell yesterday. The base of .com and .net domain names grew by 1.91 million during the quarter and 9.6 million new .com and .net domains were registered. This comes in toward the high end of Verisign’s predicted range of 1.5...