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The top domain name sale of the day was TheAcres.com selling for $14,888.00 at Afternic. NameBio tracked 582 domain sales $100+ for a reported total of $474,515 with an average price of $815.32 per sale. Compared to the day before, there was a decrease of 6% in the number of sales and the total...

Google changes hit the company hard in Q3 after strong start to the year. Earlier this week, IONOS (IOS.F) announced that it plans to sell its Sedo unit. The reason was quite clear to industry observers: the traffic arbitrage business Sedo has relied on for much of its revenue in recent years...

Platforms combine for 136 sales of $2,000 or more. Newfold Digital’s two domain marketplaces, NameJet and SnapNames, combined to sell about $749k of domain names over $2,000 last month. The total does not include the many sales below that threshold. All told, there were 136 sales of $2,000 or...

The top domain name sale of the day was Mayan.com selling for $300,000.00 at Spaceship.com. NameBio tracked 621 domain sales $100+ for a reported total of $1,576,595 with an average price of $2,538.80 per sale. Compared to the day before, there was an increase of 8% in the number of sales and...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: • The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 21:46 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss the reasons behind their evaluations. Today's...

Application describes ways to use AI to assist with parking page creation and optimization. D3Serve, a company applying blockchain technology to domain names, has filed a sweeping patent application (pdf) covering aspects of domain parking systems. The company is an ICANN-accredited registrar...

The return of CentralNic? Team Internet this week announced that it is seeking to break up the company, selling off its various divisions to different buyers. The move follows devastating changes to Google’s advertising services, which led to 200 layoffs and a $140 million drop in revenue in the...

Tucows CEO Elliot Noss has stepped down after over a quarter century in the role. He will be replaced by Davide Woroch, currently CEO of the Tucows Domains business, reflecting the company’s newly revealed plan to sell off its Ting ISP business. Noss will continue as a consultant for Ting as it...

Rubens Kühl, a mainstay of the ICANN community and prolific commentator on the domain name industry, has died tragically young. According to Brazilian ccTLD registry NIC.br, Rubens died November 3 at the age of 55, survived by his wife and two children. Rubens was at NIC.br for 16 years, mostly...

New registries should enter the market with their eyes wide open. A lot of new companies will enter the domain registry business with the next round of new top level domains next year. Last time around, there was irrational exuberance about the opportunity. Hopefully, people now have more...

The top domain name sale of the day was CloudX.ai selling for $100,000.00 at Atom.com. NameBio tracked 575 domain sales $100+ for a reported total of $665,501 with an average price of $1,157.39 per sale. Compared to the day before, there was a decrease of 4% in the number of sales but the total...

The domain aftermarket continues to perform at a very high level. The biggest 3-letter .com sale of the year to date headlines our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart (and also ranks among the 20 biggest publicly reported sales so far in 2025, regardless of category). We also saw...

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A healthcare organization, a deck builder, and a tourism marketing business bought domain names. Sedo’s public sales list this week was led by a two-letter .org domain. The company also sold ado.ai to the owner of rankingCoach GmbH. This might be an investment purchase rather than end user...