By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 6-20-18 Qwe.com was one of three 5 figure sales/closes on Wednesday. It took the top spot at $31,400. Top sales/closes from yesterday: qwe.com 31,400 USD 2018-06-20 NameJet songexchange.com 25,000 USD 2018-06-20 Sedo quicke.com 11,322 USD 2018-06-20 NameJet londonengland.com 3,600 USD 2018-06-20 NameJet basinga.de … Source: Domaining     

By admin DropGRABS.com: Today’s List of Treats Keyword Rich Reg Fee Opps In Various Extensions .COM .NET and MORE 100+ Opportunities Keyword Sampling: Muscle Villa – Green Art – Terrace Makeovers and MORE … Source: Domaining     

DNJournal: .CO has had a good run since the re-purposed ccTLD started marketing itself as an abbreviation for “company” but it made an especially big splash this week. Source: Domaining     

By NamePros Daily Domaining Tips: Today: TheLocal.fi Sold for $21,995 / Looking for Brandable domain Names / Buying Word + “Labs” .com – MachineLabs.com – DegreeLabs / And more! Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Pure GEO .com – If you have a Geo domain in your…

By Elliot Silver The Yellow.com domain name has been acquired by a blockchain investment entity called Yellow Corporation. The transaction price and terms of the deal were private, so unfortunately, this sale will not likely be reported in DNJournal or NameBio. I reached out to the registrant of Yellow.com, and I did not receive a…

By Elliot Silver This morning I wrote about some top .Net keyword domain names currently in auction at GoDaddy Auctions. In my opinion, these are solid keywords and I would love to own the .com domain names if I could. My portfolio has very few non .com domain names, and I don’t see that changing…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Domain veteran, Bill Karamouzis, is focused on entrepreneurship and generic domain investments. The Canadian domain investor announced that he received his first ever UDRP notice, for a new gTLD domain that is definitely generic: Blue.app. Bill Kara’s tweet marveled at the fact that the color is being claimed via the UDRP proce……

By Elliot Silver I was looking at GoDaddy Auctions’ most active auctions this morning, and it looks like quite a few strong keyword .net domain names are in expiry auctions. Some of the keyword .net domain names that are in the list of most active auctions include the following .net domain names: Dive.net Prize.net Sail.net…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on June 19, 2018. 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…

By Team XYZ Gen.XYZ: EdgeArchitects.xyz – Network Solutions customer (Saudi Arabia) Throughout our #WebsiteWednesday series we’ve highlighted #GenXYZ members from many industries who have embraced .xyz as their domain of choice. The design community, though, has developed a special attachment to .xyz. It has brought us some of our most inspiring us… Source: Domaining     

By Andrew Allemann Domain Name Wire: Sedo has facilitated lots of end user domain name sales so far this month. It’s been three weeks since I did an end user sales list. I’ve been putting it off thanks to what has happened to Whois records as a result of GDPR. In reviewing the past few…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: The Yellow.com domain name has been acquired by a blockchain investment entity called Yellow Corporation. The transaction price and terms of the deal were private, so unfortunately, this sale will not likely be reported in DNJournal or NameBio. I reached out to the registrant of Yellow.com, and I did not receive…

By Konstantinos Zournas OnlineDomain.com: Tucows and Enom (owned by Tucows) gave some more details on how their gated whois will work after GDPR. Tucows claims that they will ensure that only those with a legitimate interest are given access to the gated Whois system and that this access is restricted to only those data elements…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: Indian car-making giant Tata Motors has become the latest new gTLD registry to fail to pay its ICANN fees. According to a breach notice (pdf), $44 billion-a-year Tata hasn’t paid its $6,250 quarterly registry fee since at least November last year (though probably much earlier). Listed on the New York Stock…

By Rick Schwartz Rick Schwartz: Morning Folks! 2 Years ago there were more new GTLD registrations then there are now. 2 years of gains wiped out and that is during a time that hundreds of them were released for the first time. Numbers should be skyrocketing but they are not. They are crashing and they…

By James Iles NamePros.com: When it comes to selling a domain name, establishing price expectations is an important step. Whether it’s securing an outbound sale or negotiating an inbound inquiry, the price is a vital factor. In this edition of Expert Exchange, we are asking seven top industry brokers about how they handle price requests….

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: This morning I wrote about some top .Net keyword domain names currently in auction at GoDaddy Auctions. In my opinion, these are solid keywords and I would love to own the .com domain names if I could. My portfolio has very few non .com domain names, and I don’t see that…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Welcome to the latest GreatDomains “Seven with Sedo” domain auction – sponsored by Sedo. GreatDomains is a monthly, week-long domain auction event, featuring premium, hand-curated domains that span a wide range of genres. The June auction takes place from June 21st to June 28th, featuring more than 40 domain names. … Source:…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: With blanket public Whois access now firmly a thing of the past due to GDPR, ICANN has set the ball rolling on an accreditation system that would reopen the data doors to certain select parties. The org yesterday published a high-level framework document for a “Unified Access Model” that could give…

By Morgan MorganLinton.com: I was pretty surprised to learn this week that a UDRP was filed against Blue.app, the domain is owned by domain industry veteran and successful startup founder Bill Karamouzis who broke the news about the UDRP on Twitter earlier this week: Bill has a pretty snazzy site on Blue.app right now, and…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: I was looking at GoDaddy Auctions’ most active auctions this morning, and it looks like quite a few strong keyword .net domain names are in expiry auctions. Some of the keyword .net domain names that are in the list of most active auctions include the following .net domain names: Dive.net Prize.net…

By Andrew Allemann Domain Name Wire: Window shading company filed cybersquatting complaint that had “no chance whatsoever of success”. Mechoshade Systems, LLC, which goes by the name MechoSystems, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain name Mecho.com. The window shading and coverings company filed a cybersquatting disp… Source:…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was TheLocal.fi which sold for $21,995 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 272 sales for a total of $165,458 with an average sale price of $608. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 11% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount…

By John Colascione StrategicRevenue.com: NEW YORK, NY – Donuts Inc, the company behind hundreds of new domain name extensions has acquired a link shortening service formally known as BadURL, and rebranded it as BL.INK. The service had been around for ten years and was founded by Andy Meadows. The acquisition took place sometime in 2017…

By Rick Schwartz Rick Schwartz: Morning Folks!! So, this is a story about sales, markets and steering wheels for cars in Detroit. I did business for many years with an importer. Then one day he got this bright idea that he was going to sell steering wheels and make a fortune. I laughed at him….

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: An article on NewsBTC.com reported a poll by CapGemini that gauged the interest of high net worth individuals and their interest in cryptocurrency. No surprise there was greater interest from millionaire’s who were 40 and under as compared to those 60 and over. 13% of those over 60 expressed an…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: Ok, one more from me and then Shane should be back on Thursday. He had some adventures getting back from Europe and needed another day to get his body clock back in order. There are some nice names on the list today. Take a look, and click through and buy something…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 6-20-18 TheLocal.fi was the top sale on Tuesday, the domain sold for $21,995. This is the second highest sale for the Finnish extension I believe, right behind Wi.fi. Top sales/closes from yesterday: thelocal.fi 21,995 USD 2018-06-19 Sedo emerged.com 12,513 USD 2018-06-19 Sedo d17.com 5,550 USD 2018-06-19 DropCatch… Source:…

By Elliot Silver Another valuable three letter .com domain name is subject of a UDRP filing. A UDRP was filed against CCK.com at the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is WIPO Case D2018-1357. CCK.com was created in October of 1996, making it over 20 years old. The domain name is registered to an entity in…

By NamePros Daily TNTNames.com: Today: Buying aged “Performance” related .COM / Investing into a eCommerce domain (Arabic or English) / Buying unwanted Product & GEO .com’s (In Bulk) / And more! Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community … → Source: Domaining     

By Elliot Silver A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization against the seemingly generic Cassandra.com domain name. The decision was published this morning, and the three member panel ruled in favor of the domain registrant. In addition, the panel found that this was a case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). As…

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: Sedo reported their weekly sales and SecureChain.com led the way at $30,000. OnlineCasino.mx was the number two sale at 19,600 Euros. ($22,715). 59 .com sales 15 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Bit.ch was an interest domain hack if being used that way. 8,000 Euros. ($9,271). Life.Club was the highest…

By Elliot Silver I don’t hand register all that many domain names each year. I would say the number is somewhere around 50 +/- and that figure varies each year. When it comes time to renew my hand registered domain names, I sometimes struggle to decide what gets renewed and what gets dropped. I look…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Welcome to the weekly edition of reporting on the Sedo domain sales; this time we cover the week between June 11th – June 17th, 2018. This information is provided courtesy of Sedo.com, sponsors of DomainGang. Several big sales this week, with 6 domains that sold in the five figure range for .com,…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: Another valuable three letter .com domain name is subject of a UDRP filing. A UDRP was filed against CCK.com at the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is WIPO Case D2018-1357. CCK.com was created in October of 1996, making it over 20 years old. The domain name is registered to an entity…

By Theo Develegas Acro: We’re right in the heart of summer, and it’s probably the slowest part of the year. During these summer doldrums, as Elliot calls it, it’s good to expand on one’s domain selling channels, and I’m currently using Uniregistry brokerage. The capable guys and gals at Uniregistry are going through hundreds of……

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on June 18, 2018. 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…

By The Frager factor The Frager factor: Today: Blockchain, Mark Benioff, Salesforce.com, Cloud, Lambos, Career, Performance Review, Cryptocurrency AMAZON IS FACING QUESTIONS FROM U.S. SENATORS ABOUT ECHO PRIVACY Internet ‘domain jacker’ jailed for 20 years over armed website heist After twenty years of Salesforce, what Marc Benioff got r… Source: Domaining     

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization against the seemingly generic Cassandra.com domain name. The decision was published this morning, and the three member panel ruled in favor of the domain registrant. In addition, the panel found that this was a case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH)….

By Andrew Allemann Domain Name Wire: Company filed baseless cybersquatting dispute at WIPO. A New York brand strategy company that uses the domain name Cassandra.co has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain name Cassandra.com. Deep Focus Inc. filed the complaint against Abstract Holdings International,…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: The UDRP against the aged, generic domain Cassandra.com has failed, and the panel’s decision delivered a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. The Complainant is Deep Focus Inc. of New York, with a registered mark for THE CASSANDRA REPORT. IP attorney, Zak Muscovitch, handled the case on behalf of the Respondent. In…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: As long as we can remember, Rams.com was listed for sale with a price of between $1,000,000 to $1.8 million dollars – in other words, seven figures. Adam Dicker’s animal domain gained notoriety after football fans looking for The Rams triggered an ESPN article about the generic qualities of domains. In that…

By Konstantinos Zournas OnlineDomain.com: Mike Mann wtote on social media: “Every day there is at least one domain being deleted that is worth a million dollars. Not easy to find and get it first.” Andrew Rosener replied on twitter: “I would say 1 in every 10 days at best. $100k name very day yes. Unless…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: How can one confuse “clits” with “clips” is beyond our understanding; the domain Clits4Free.com was registered in 2002. Wiluna Holdings LLC owns the trademark CLIPS4SALE and despite the non similarity of it to the domain in question, they filed a UDRP. According to the UDRP, that’s apples and oranges: … Source: Domaining…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: I don’t hand register all that many domain names each year. I would say the number is somewhere around 50 +/- and that figure varies each year. When it comes time to renew my hand registered domain names, I sometimes struggle to decide what gets renewed and what gets dropped. I…

By Andrew Allemann Domain Name Wire: Anastasia Poulopoulos filed a cybersquatting dispute in bad faith, panelist determines. The owner of Appealmytaxes.BIZ, which offers a service to challenge property tax assessments in Illinois, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in an attempt to get the domain name Appealmytaxes.COM. Anastasia Poulopoulos… Source:…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 6-19-18 LiveWorkouts.com closed at $20,150 to lead the way on Monday. Domain-Prices.com sold for $5,000 on Sedo. Top sales/closes from yesterday: liveworkouts.com 20,150 USD 2018-06-18 GoDaddy plataforma.com 7,204 USD 2018-06-18 NameJet nais.com 7,100 USD 2018-06-18 GoDaddy retete.com 6,600 USD 2018-06-18 GoDaddy … Source: Domaining     

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…