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New Gtld domain name sales end 2021 strong with close to $1m in December 2021

January 3, 2022 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Looking back at December there were 453 reported new gtld domain name sales at Namebio. This is compared to 348 in November. Sales totaled $940,000 vs $677,373 . December repeated November results by being dominated by Swetha. She took 7 of the top 11. glow.xyz 79,888 USD 2021-12-25 Swetha.xyz nomad.xyz 49,000 USD 2021-12-03 hypernames.co M.community […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, domaining news, new gtlds

LeaseDomains.com closes at $80,000

December 26, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

LeaseDomains.com registered back in 1998, looks to have expired and closed at $80,000 at GoDaddy auctions. Back in 2007 it was a reseller through Wild West Domains. It was then Domains Priced Right up until around 2019. Over the last couple years it was parked at Sav.com. If it does not get renewed it will […]

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With one week left Dynadot looks to sweep the Namepros best registrar awards

December 24, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

There are two 2021 best registrar polls winding down at Namepros. WIth a week to go Dynadot has a pretty much insurmountable lead. After giving 3 choices for best registrar, some wanted to see how things would play out if you had to only choose one. In both cases Dynadot has run away with the […]

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Filed Under: Domain Registrars, domaining news, Dynadot

Dynadot Top 10 Aftermarket Sales –November 2021

December 20, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Dynadot released their November sales data in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace. Again the top sales are ETH related, last month the top sale was Eth.green at $45,000. They sold eth.digital for $14,199 in an exclusive platinum auction they ran with Donuts. November was also […]

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After once telling people not to register .tv domains GoDaddy will now run the registry

December 14, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

GoDaddy will be taking over for Verisign in managing the .tv registry. The Ministry of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs, Tuvalu Government posted on Facebook: The Ministry is excited to announce that the Government of Tuvalu has selected GoDaddy Registry as the new registry service provider for Tuvalu’s .tv Country Code Top-Level Domain! The Government, […]

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Filed Under: .tv, domaining news, Go Daddy

NameSilo November 2021 Marketplace stats

December 13, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

NameSilo published their marketplace report for November 2021. 85% of all domain names sold were .com. 13 characters was the number that saw the most number of sales. That’s a bit unusual. Full report:

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Filed Under: Domain Marketplaces, Domain trends, domaining news, Namesilo

4 six figure closes at NameJet led by Trainer.com at $290K

December 10, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Trainer.com was one of 4 six figure closes on Thursday, all of these names coming from the Thought Convergence portfolio. Threat.com was sold once before, back in 2011 for $8,500. trainer.com 290,000 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet aftermarket.com 280,001 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet aka.com 248,400 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet threat.com 186,000 USD 2021-12-09 NameJet It will be interesting to […]

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November Keyword domain sales – Meta stays strong, Cloud posts solid results

December 1, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

November Keyword Trends November picked up where October left off for Meta. 47 sales in November up from 38 in October. Cloud had a strong month while Shop dipped a bit. Coin and Crypto also had solid results. Meta, Crypto, Labs and Cloud had five figure sales. Popular Keywords There are certain keywords that are […]

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A quick chat with the Queen of .xyz on her 2021 sales, outbound and more

November 23, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Q1) It was July of 2020 when I first interviewed you, back then you said you had 13000 domains, Among them 90% are .xyz. Can you tell us what that number is today? Swetha) I have around 19K .xyz domains and I have been renewing all except a few 100. Q2) You have certainly had […]

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Filed Under: .xyz, domaining news

Who will manage .tv when contract with Verisign expires this year?

November 22, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

It’s no surprise for those who have been involved with .tv that Tuvalu wants more money. The contract with Verisign is up at the end of this year and Tuvalu is putting the contract up for bid. Kieren McCarthy over at TheRegister.com delves into some interesting clauses around the rebid. Kieren reviews the controversial terms […]

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Filed Under: .tv, domaining news

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