.XYZ Says They Just "Blew Past" 2 Million Domain Registrations -
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has “blew past 2 Million domain name registrations”.
According to ntldstats.com .XYZ was sitting at 1,967,963 domain registrations as of the last zone update, however there has been a huge surge in 6 number .XYZ domain names from China (NNNNNN.xyz) (also known as 6N domains) of over 100,000 domain registrations.
According to XYZ 27% of all 6N domain name combinations are now registered.
100% of all possible ... read more ...
Tag Archives: numeric
Sat 6th February 2016
Wed 27th January 2016
.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains - Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domain names.
In December 2015, thousands of .WS domain names were registered in China.
The entire 4 number Chinese Premium .WS space sold out over a three-day period in December.
Global Domains International which runs the .WS registry, announced it has partnered ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out - Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered!
To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to register of the once 100,000 according to the tracker provided by the registry.
The XYZ registry easily allows people to see what domain names are available by clicking the download CSV file on the tracker page, which displays the available domain names ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2015
Rick Schwartz Sells 4 Domains For Over $1.325M & Breaks Record (Again) For 4 Number .Com - Rick Schwartz added to his most amazing year, selling four more domain names this week for just over $1.325 million dollars.
Rick, who is known as the Domain King, keeps showing why he owns that title.
Included in this week’s sales is 6565.com which set another record for a 4 number .Com domain name.
Rick sold 9595.com for $180,000 in July, which at the time set a record for the highest amount paid for a 4 number .Com domain name (NNNN.com)
The sale of 6565.com, which Rick sold early this week, ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
Five Number Domain Lost in UDRP - With the craziness around numbered domain names it worth noting that the domain name 11315.so was just lost in a UDRP decision handed down by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) proving that even numbered domain names are not exempt from UDRP attack.
Here are the highlights:
The complainant was founded in 2001 and in 2002 entered the credit industry, to create a “11315 Credit Services” logo, and for the credit business activities.
Respondent disputed domain name 11315.so on July ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
Last Call: 6 Number .Com's: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million - If you’re considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I’m going calling “Last Call’.
As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration.
The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero.
We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend.
There is a huge run on numbered and Letter domains in .com, .net, .xyz, .top and .win over the last couple of months.
.Com, ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2015
I Spend Over 2 Hours a Day Answering Offers From China - You may have noticed I’m not blogging as much.
Why?
Its time to make money guys.
As we all know buyers from China have been moving the domain name market for a few years, but we are now in uncharted waters.
China now is making the market.
US buyers are now interested in buying only the domain names the buyers in China want.
I have 100+ LLL.com domains, about 30+ LLLL.com domain, 7 NNNN.com domains and lots of NNNNN.com domains that I registered back in the day when Marchex was buying them as area ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
It is all about a eights - The Sedo auction for 8888828.com was paid and hit the Sedo sales wire, the name sold for $5,103, yes a 7N.com. The seller is local to me actually about 30 minutes away in King of Prussia, DomainDakini.com purchased the domain name back in 2014, it looks like from a Chinese registrant who hand regged the domain back in 2013.
The domain was dropped twice previously. That is the tricky thing with these names, people tend to get bored with no action and drop a domain name, there certainly was little ... read more ...
Sat 18th July 2015
Rick Schwartz Sells The Domain 9595.com for $180K: Highest Reported 4 Number Domain Sale - Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King has done it again, setting yet another record selling the domain name 9595.com for $180,000.
This is the highest reported four number (NNNN.com) domain sale of all time and only the 5th reported NNNN.com domain to sell in the six figures.
Rick hand-registered the domain name in 1998 for $70.
The only four number domain names that sold in the six figures before this sale were:
0060.com sold for $120,000 in December 2014.
8788.com sold for $106,000 in February ... read more ...
Sun 28th June 2015
125.com Becomes Largest Reported Sale on 4.cn -
Domain NameClosing Price Xe.com shows 1RMB = .1611 USD
125.com¥1,815,000 RMB
357.com¥995,889 RMB August 2014
xy.com¥948,000 RMB December 2011
zy.com¥901,000 RMB November 2011 after selling on Sedo earlier in 2011 for $106,000.
mingshi.com¥891,000 RMB January 2015
102.com¥831,000 RMB August 2014
103.com¥802,000 RMB August 2014
886.com¥688,888 RMB November 2011
kq.com¥638,000 RMB December 2012
920.com¥589,888 RMB Feb 2014
So you can see that 125.com almost doubled the previous high sale ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
A small 6number.com Frenzy on Namepros and a demeanour behind during 5n.com -
Ali Zandi formerly of Flippa and currently with his own shop at Perception.com, wrote a blog post on Namepros that listed 370 available 6n.com domain names. Ali has been publishing a series he calls the “Daily Dose” which lists names available for registration.
A couple members regged one or two names before someone came in and took the lot, registered them and put them under privacy. This started a discussion on whether or not people buying and selling 6n.com are perpetuating hype around a ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
Results of the Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll -
Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see prices going higher.
Where do you think values are going for Numeric .com domains ?
... read more ...
Tue 9th September 2014
With 1 Day Left In Sedo Numeric Auction – 10 Names Have Met Reserve -
The Sedo numeric auction closes on Wednesday and with one day to go 10 names have met reserve out of the 264 names up for auction. The highest priced name to meet reserve is 1029.com currently at 5,100 Euros.
55 names in total have bids.
Names that have met reserve:
1029.com 5,100 EUR
666.me 510 USD
1786.net 500 USD
5.nu 259 USD
9.nu 259 USD
855.co 250 USD
1956.net 230 USD
2508.net 135 USD
20040.com 119 USD
3638.net ... read more ...
Mon 1st September 2014
Sedo Numeric Auction Starts Wednesday 49 extensions represented -
On Wednesday Sedo will start its numeric auction of 265 domain names that run the gamut of super quality to wait what ? There will be 49 different extensions represented including .mobi, .enterprises and .name.
Here is the list of extensions:
asia
be
berlin
bg
bid
bike
biz
cab
cards
ch
club
cn
co
co.com
com
com.cn
com.tw
dance
dating
de
email
enterprises
estate
eu
fr
gs
hk
holiday
in
info
it
lu
me
me.uk
mobi
name
net
nl
nu
org
pub
sexy
tips
today
trade
uno
us
xxx
在线IDN
There are some incredible ... read more ...
Sat 30th August 2014
Where Do You See The Value of Numeric.com Domains Going ? -
Our latest poll takes a look at Numeric.com values. Numerics have continued to be one of the strongest categories for domain investors, fetching excellent prices and also being a very liquid category within the space. Michael has mentioned a few times that he has had several parties interested in 345.com which he owns. There have been multiple offers over $500,000. 4.CN completed its largest auction sale ever at 357.com sold for $161,633, 103.com sold for $130,164.
Top 5 reported to DN Journal in ... read more ...
Sun 4th May 2014
Decoding The Secret Messages in Chinese Domain Names -
Why the preference for digits over letters? It mostly has to do with ease of memorization. To a native English-speaker, remembering a long string of digits might seem harder than memorizing a word. But that’s if you understand the word. For many Chinese, numbers are easier to remember than Latin characters. Sure, Chinese children learn the pinyin system that uses the Roman alphabet to spell out Mandarin words (for example, the word for “Internet,” 网络, is spelled wangluo in pinyin). And ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
While Most of a domain attention debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it adult offered numeric domains -
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN the first half of February. Over the last week things have picked up with some of the biggest sales ever in the history of the site. 920.com which sold on 2-26-14 is the number 5 sale all time.
Here is a look at the numeric sales over the last week and change:
920.com ... read more ...