Domain Sales

Often times, the domain name is the first part of a website a person sees. It might be on a search engine results page, a bus stop advertisement, or on another website. Thus it is important to make sure it sends the right message. Look at the following domains, however, …

Payment.com sold at auction today for $250,000 USD. In addition, its plural partner, payments.com, was also purchased for $150,000. Currently no information on the buyer is available, but hopefully both names were bought by the same individual. I think the seller might be bit disappointed. A name like payment.com has …

California’s Silicon Valley has always been home to more data centers than any other place in the United States, but lately the region has been feeling a bit under-loved and left out as developers choose other locations to house their servers. Why is the Silicon Valley less desirable than before? …

In past years, if you made a mistake when registering a domain name, whether a spelling mistake or some other type of mishap, you had five days to return the domain and get a refund from your registrar. This is called the Add Grace Period. ICANN would refund the registrar …

A popular domain auction site recently released a report detailing statistics about more than 9,000 auctions in the last three months. Surprisingly, the average sale price for a .net domain came out to $1,775 USD, a wee bit higher than the average .com value of $1,768. This is a sharp …

A large adult domain auction recently ended in which 33 names were sold. The top seller was orgasms.com, which netted £24,987 ($41,180 USD). Coming in at numbers two and three were pleaser.com and gay.info for £7,150 ($11,770.00 USD) and £5,620 ($9,251.00 USD) respectively. Not all the domains were necessarily adult-related: …

Yes, anyone can edit Wikipedia. Anyone can theoretically add their input into the participatory encyclopedia that has been both lauded and shunned, depending on who you ask. With 262 languages and hundreds of thousands of articles, nearly everyone has access to it. But not everyone can be Wikipedia, as Kevo …

The battle for the .eco top-level domain (TLD) is heating up with more politicians turned activists jumping out of the pasture and into the crossfire. We have already told you about Al Gore’s involvement in trying to secure the ultimate “green” TLD. His Dot Eco LLC has been engaged in …

Internet.com, a technology news website, has just been sold for £10.9 million ($18 million USD). It was purchased by marketing company QuinStreet Inc from WebMediaBrands Inc, a web content provider. Though technically higher than Sex.com’s sale price of £8.3 million ($14 million USD)– the largest ever for a domain– in …

Imagine: you discover a domain you want to register and check to see if it’s available at your registrar’s website. It is, but you decide to sleep on the idea and purchase the name in the morning. Come the next day, it’s taken! What happened? This phenomena might just be …