Domain Magnate

Here is the recent registrations stats for End of June 2008, or the latest data available. Top 3 tlds, .com, .de and .cn make up over 100 million domains, .net pushed to the 4th place.

We can see an enormous growth in .cn registrations, but this is mostly due their extremely low price. Many sites offer Chinese domains for just $0.13, yes, 13 cents only!

.co.uk is now slightly above .org and with UK pound going strong unlike the US dollar, the recent week’s sale of Phones.co.uk for $345k and LegalJobs.co.uk for $40k in addition to the previously reported sale of Cruises.co.uk for $1.1. Million comes to show how big the .co.uk tld is.

Apotheke.eu (”pharmacy” in German) sold for $81K last week and as the EU expands and grows tighter we can expect the .eu names to grow as well.

.asia is the new kid on the block and while many consider this new extension completely useless, there was one good sale in dnjournal last week: LasVegas.asia for $30k.

The moniker.com auction from the Geo show in Chicago just concluded with a total of $284K of domains sold.

While there were some good sales, in general I’d say it didn’t do that well. Many people got bargains on city domains

Here is a list of all the domains that sold:

SantaClara.com                         $82,500
Afghan.com                             $30,000
Asia.org                                  $30,000
OysterBay.com                          $24,500
Guatemala.net                          $16,000
Cuban.com                              $15,000
Secaucus.com                           $11,000
SaintKittsAndNevis.com                 $10,500 read more »

Here are the results from recent .asia auctions:

TOP 10 AUCTIONS
sex.asia $83,334
sexshop.asia $53,607
sushi.asia $22,500
cooking.asia $21,500
ace.asia $20,501
water.asia $19,388
outdoor.asia $19,019
promotion.asia $17,600
arts.asia $15,500
sales.asia $13,500

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.me is about to be launched. Sounds pretty good for a personal site. I think many people would like it and it has many cool possibilities, like kill.me, love.me, hug.me, pay.me etc. A tld that is also a word!

.ME Registry officials today announced the roll-out plan for .ME, the new domain name extension. .ME is expected to be utilized as both a personalized Web address and as a catchy business marketing tool around the world.

The registry will begin accepting .ME applications in May, for the start of what is known as the General Sunrise Period, a time when only trademark owners can apply. However, registrars who sign up before that time can start accepting Sunrise and Landrush applications and pre-registration requests, as soon as they’d like. As was the case with .ASIA, multiple parties will be allowed to submit applications for the same domain name. Domain names that receive more than one application will go to an auction process. .ME Registry officials today announced the roll-out plan for .ME, the new domain name extension. .ME is expected to be utilized as both a personalized Web address and as a catchy business marketing tool around the world.

The registry will begin accepting .ME applications in May, for the start of what is known as the General Sunrise Period, a time when only trademark owners can apply. However, registrars who sign up before that time can start accepting Sunrise and Landrush applications and pre-registration requests, as soon as they’d like. As was the case with .ASIA, multiple parties will be allowed to submit applications for the same domain name. Domain names that receive more than one application will go to an auction process. more

Instead of making my own April prank I decided to list a few others tried.

Here is todays collection:

All currently running GreatDomains auctions have been cancelled. Including pizza.com!

ICANNT announces immediate release of all single letter .com/.net/.org domains

Rick Latona is selling Vino.com for $5k

Google launches new tool: Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTM

TakeMeTo.asia Domain sells for Six Figures breaking record for a new TLD

Happy Fools Day everyone!

Here is an interesting list with .asia domains which received more than one application.

Many generics, like:

card.asia

video.asia

policy.asia

vip.asia

ugly.asia

ship.asia

reform.asia

swallow.asia read more »

				

Domain News reports:

The .Asia Landrush start is a huge success (see DotASIA’s Press-release)! For those who missed the first day Landrush Promo, now is the chance to catch up with a new promotional code offered by ASIADNS/EURODNS that allows you to get the .ASIA for only 6 Euros* and this for the next 7 days.

The Promo Code is: 6ASIA21 (valid from now till only the 28th February 10AM UTC). Application for .ASIA domains can only be submitted via the new read more »