Big news in the domaining world. CNN reported the highest domain sale ever Fund.com sold for $10 million.

Clek Media Inc. (”Clek”) today announced that it has brokered the world-record sale of the domain FUND.COM for US$9,999,950 in an all-cash transaction. That’s a lot of cash to carry around

Clek, a media consulting firm, represented the seller of the domain, assisting in both the negotiation and closing of the transaction. The buyer is Fund.com Inc. (OTCBB: FNDM), a New York firm previously named Meade Technologies Inc. To date the buyer has revealed their plans for the domain mostly in filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. (more…)

Another great story by Ron from dnjournal:

Born to Run: How Oversee.net Co-Founder and CEO Lawrence Ng Built a $200 Million Company Before His 30th Birthday

The wave of consolidation that has swept through the domain industry over the past couple of years has left a handful of giants at the head of the pack. Oversee.net is certainly one of those, having assembled some of the best-known brands in this space, including DomainSponsor.com, SnapNames.com and Moniker.com. (more…)

New article in press featuring Internet Marketers and Domainers in Canada.com:

He works two hours a day and makes as much as $10 million a year.

That’s why Markus Frind is already considered a dot-com legend at the ripe old age of 29.

Frind is the sole owner of PlentyofFish.com, one of the most popular online dating sites in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.

Running his matchmaking business from his 83-square-metre apartment in downtown Vancouver, Frind is a one-man show in a business many thought was impossible to do solo. (more…)

Top 6 domain tlds finally hit over 100M registered combined.

Here are some interesting stats for today March 9, 2008

74,104,230 .COM
11,035,393 .NET
6,611,743 .ORG
4,978,080 .INFO
1,943,952 .BIZ
1,400,328 .US

Over 1 Million .com domains registered today only, compared to 142K .com deleted. Long live the .com

Similar to the previous one here is a second LLLL.com sales compilation from last 2 days to reflect the current market prices.

SnapNames

artr.com $900.00
jspk.com $110.00
jvdv.com $65.00
kknl.com $130.00
krwt.com $59.00
lxwd.com $50.00
mxep.com $75.00
qdzl.com $52.00
rxsu.com $60.00
ttgu.com $161.00
vcou.com $72.00
vqso.com $50.00
yhkm.com $68.00
zlht.com $65.00
ztcm.com $75.00 (more…)

In shade of recent events on DNForum, where some stolen domains were sold and others offered for sales and brokered, be very careful when asked to broker domains.

If a newbie member on a domaining forum asks you to broker a premium domain, there is a high chance it’s a stolen domain, otherwise why wouldn’t he do it himself? (more…)

Jay from DomainTools reports about two new tv channels covering domaining industry:

The domain industry keeps growing. We now have two TV channel websites that create unique content which cover domaining. The first is DomainerTV.com and the other is Page Howe’s DNTV.tv. I am very impressed by the level of detail these sites have launched with in very little time. (more…)

iReport.com, that made news recently for selling for $750K to CNN, is now up and running.

CNN 2.0 with a bright new look and social twist.

Hardly worth a fraction of that high price on the reseller market, but definitely a great and memorable name for a social bookmarking site.

New LLLL.com price guide is out by Reece and we can see that prices have slowed a bit:

Data derived from TDVR.com, the largest LLLL.com database. Numbers in parentheses reflect Feb 17, 2008 statistics. Current prices reflect the results of the 500 most recent reported LLLL.com sales within the Feb 25, 2008 through Mar 5, 2008 timeframe.

*Minimum Wholesale : $48.00 ($52.00) -> 8%

10th percentile: $59.00 ($60.00) -> 2%

25th percentile: $65.00 ($67.00) -> 3%

Median: $85.00 ($81.00) -> 5%

75th percentile: $126.00 ($150.00) -> 16%

90th percentile: $400.00 ($445.00) -> 10%

How did this happen, what are the reasons and will the prices keep growing in future?

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Interesting registry statistics published on domainnews.com

There were almost 33 million new domain names registered in 2007 according to the fourth quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. This brings the total of domain names registered to more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). This represents a 27 percent increase over the same quarter last year, and 5 percent growth over the third quarter of 2007.

Of these registrations, the .com and .net adjusted base surpassed 80.4 million domain name registrations at the end of 2007. This represents a 24 percent increase year over year and a four percent increase quarter over quarter. The adjusted base grew by 3.5 million domain names in the fourth quarter and 15.4 million over the entire year. New .com and .net domain name registrations were added at an average of 2.5 million per month in the fourth quarter 2007 for a total of 7.5 million new registrations. (more…)