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NamesCon
Global Announces Dates and Opens Registration for
2023 Conference in Austin
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After
a successful 2022
event NamesCon
Global announced the conference would
be returning to Austin, Texas in 2023
- the only question was what the dates would be.
The answer came in an email sent to those on the
show's mailing list today. The big event will run
from Wednesday, May 31 through Saturday, June
3 at the same venue - the downtown Omni
Hotel in Austin. The
same letter included a link for early
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that
is now
open. Jumping in ahead of the crowd will cut your
ticket cost by 65% with Standard passes reduced to $349
and Channel passes cut to $549. That is a
nice Black Friday style discount but you can take of
advantage of the deal any time before it expires
on December 22. Discounted hotel rooms at the
Omni will also be available soon and we will let you
know when those are available to book.
NamesCon
Global brings together domain investors, developers
and service providers who build and grow the digital
asset industry, covering everything from domain
names to emerging digital assets. The industry's
biggest event has proven to be the best place to
find new customers and build the relationships that accelerate
success in this business.
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This
is Thanksgiving Day in America - a day when
we make a special effort to do something we should do
every day of the year but too often forget in the hustle
and bustle of our daily lives. That is to give thanks
with a grateful heart for the friends, family and
blessings we have been given. We are especially thankful,
grateful and blessed to have all of you in our lives -
including many who have been visiting DNJournal for almost
20 years now! While this is an American holiday, we wish
all of you, where ever you are around the globe, a joyful
day and endless blessings in the weeks, months and years
ahead!
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Public
Interest Registry Reveals Winners of 4th Annual
.ORG Impact Awards - Over $100,000 Will Go to
Honorees
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The
Public
Interest Registry (PIR), the
people behind the .ORG Family of Domains,
has announced the winners of the 4th annual .ORG
Impact Awards, that honor and
celebrate outstanding mission-driven organizations
and individuals working to make the world a better
place. A record 947 organizations and
individuals submitted entries this year from more
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Community
Building
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Quality
Education for All
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Environmental
Stewardship
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Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion
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Health and
Healing
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Hunger and
Poverty
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Rising Stars
(leaders, under 25, making a difference in their
communities)
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PIR
President & CEO Jon Nevett |
The .ORG of
the Year will receive a donation of $35,000
for an eligible charitable entity of its
choice, while the other award winners will
receive donations of $10,000 each.
PIR President
and CEO Jon Nevett said, “We are
honored to celebrate the deeply impactful champions
for change who have won a 2022 .ORG
Impact Award. These inspiring organizations
and individuals work incredibly hard to put
their mission first, improving the lives of
so many, and bringing meaningful change to
communities across the globe. We are
thrilled to uplift their tireless efforts
and to celebrate their dedication to making
the world a better place. Each
organization is an emblem for what .ORG
stands for, and we are humbled by the work
of all the .ORGs that submitted for the
awards, were named finalists, or are winning
an award today. Congratulations, and thank
you for being the best of our .ORG
Community.” |
...and the winners are:
.ORG
of the Year – Food
Rescue Hero Donation Amount: $35,000
Purposefully
designed to automate the time consuming and variable
coordination of food recovery, Food Rescue
Hero enables scalable impact on food waste, food
insecurity, and climate change. Since 2016, the Food
Rescue Hero network of 14 partners in the US and
Canada, and a growing community of 34,000
volunteer drivers, have diverted 100 million
pounds of perfectly good food from landfill and
mitigated 54.3 million pounds of CO2 emissions. With
Food Rescue Hero, coordination between food donors,
non-profit partners and volunteer drivers is
reliable, timely and transparent, and yields greater
food waste prevention and shrink real time data
transparency and greater overall impact. Food Rescue
Hero is also the winner of the 2022 .ORG Impact
Award for Hunger and Poverty.
Community
Building – Kageno
Worldwide Donation Amount: $10,000
Kageno
Worldwide’s mission is to transform impoverished
communities into places of hope and opportunity.
They believe there is no single solution for
communities living in poverty, but that there must
be change across multiple sectors, to effectively
transform an impoverished community. This is why
Kageno works with community leaders to develop
programs in four key areas of Education, Healthcare,
Income Generation, and Conservation. Their programs
operating in Africa address the diversified needs of
each community. Kageno is a big picture non-profit,
with boots on the ground able to provide the
infrastructure, resources, and knowledge needed to
develop education initiatives, stronger
infrastructures for community health, diversified
economies, and a healthier environment.
Quality
Education for All
– Hello
World Donation Amount: $10,000
Hello
World's paradigm-busting solution to the education
deficit tackles the twin injustices of lack of
educational resources in remote and last-mile
communities and the digital divide. Hello World is
helping solve the lack of global education by
working with the most marginalized communities to
build state-of-the-art, Solar Powered Internet Hubs
and bridge the digital divide. Each “Hello Hub”
provides free internet access and world-class
educational software to over 1,000 people,
giving children and adults an education and a voice
in the global community. Hello Hubs are built by the
community for the community across Uganda and Nepal.
Each one provides everything needed to get online
and further education.
Environmental
Stewardship – TIP
Sessions Donation Amount: $10,000
TIP
Sessions focuses on a combination of
gender-sensitive response
to climate change, and technological intervention
with lingual and regional context to achieve climate
and gender justice. They achieve this through a
three-pronged approach of community-led climate
action, culture for climate programs and economic
empowerment of rural women. Their programs are
action-driven and give local
communities—particularly, women and youth—the
platform and voice to impact their world.
Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion – Pro
Mujer Donation Amount: $10,000
Pro
Mujer has been working to advance gender equality
in Latin America for over 32 years. It provides
underserved women with financial inclusion, skilling
opportunities and health services in order for them
to reach their full potential, become agents of
change and improve their living conditions.
Health
and Healing – Limbitless
Solutions Donation Amount: $10,000
Limbitless
Solutions Inc. (LSI) is a University of Central
Florida-based, non-profit dedicated to
empowering individuals by creating access for
children—and soon adult first responders and
veterans—to personalized, high-functioning and
expressive prosthetic arms without financial
burden, using technology and interdisciplinary
efforts to address accessibility issues to increase
access and inclusion. They work to empower
confidence and increase accessibility in the limb
difference community through art-infused bionics and
combine engineering and art to promote access and
engagement in STEAM (science, technology,
engineering, art, and math) education for a more
inclusive future.
Hunger
and Poverty – Food
Rescue Hero Donation Amount: $10,000
In
addition to receiving the awards for .ORG of the
Year, Food Rescue Hero is also the winner in the
Hunger and Poverty category. Food Rescue Hero
is able to use their highly functional app to reduce
waste and deliver food to hungry people in 16 cities
involved in their network. They have recovered over
122 million pounds of food, equating to nearly 100
million meals. This also means 66.2 million
pounds of carbon emissions have been mitigated
through their work.
Rising
Star – Mathias Charles Yabe, AkoFresh
Donation Amount: $10,000
AkoFresh
is a green Agritech organization that is offering sustainable
agricultural services leveraging climate smart
solutions for improved food security and ensuring
ecosystem resilience in local communities. The
innovation for AkoFresh is a mobile solar powered
cold storage preservation technology that
extends shelf life of perishable crops from
the usual 5-day period to 21 days to reduce
post-harvest losses and ensure improved livelihood
of smallholder farmers. Projects implemented by
AkoFresh prioritize the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions especially from food waste, conserving
environmental resources, alleviating poverty in
small-holders' farming communities by boosting the
local economy, and creating decent employment
opportunities for women and the youth.
Congratulations
to the award winners and a thank you for all that
you do!
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"Tech
Wreck/Crypto Crash" Dented 3Q Domain Sales at
Escrow.com But Business Rebounded in October
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Escrow.com
has released their quarterly Domain
Investment Index (.pdf file) for the 3rd
Quarter of 2022. The company reported a
big drop in domain sales revenue from the same
quarter a year ago when they rang up $105
million in sales. In 3Q-2022 the number took a
28% dive to $75 million. Escrow.com CEO
Matt Barrie said there was no mystery behind
the precipitous slide noting, “The decrease in
Q3 sales can almost all be attributed to a drop in
multi-million dollar mega domain name
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Barrie
added, "Venture capital was down in the
third quarter by 53%, for example, so we saw
a decline in startups seeking a premium brand to
launch. The crypto space also experienced a large
decline, and crypto ventures have been a large
purchaser of $10 million + domains in the
last year. The general climate in domains, which we
confirmed at NamesCon recently was that many decided
to hang up a sign saying ‘gone fishin’ for
the summer”.
The good
news is that Escrow.com saw the sales trend
reversing over the past month.
“Domain sales have shot back up strongly in
October with significant sales in the first two
weeks of the month," Barrie noted. Escrow also
pointed out that sales volume was still up 8%
year over year jumping from $449 million in
2021 to $489 million in 2022 (across the
trailing 12 months).
The
following graph breaks down Escrow.com's
quarterly domain sales volume for the past there
years.
Additional
information is available in the full
press release that Escrow.com
distributed today (.pdf file).
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ICA
Releases Preliminary Agenda for January Event in
Las Vegas - Monday is Last Day for Early Bird
Ticket Deal
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Earlier
this month I told you about the Internet
Commerce Association's decision to
stage their 2023 Member Meeting at
Hilton's Resorts World in Las Vegas
January 22-24. Plans for the big event are
continuing to come together nicely with the ICA
releasing a preliminary agenda today
via a blog
post from Executive Director Kamila
Sekiewicz. Kamila noted that the agenda is
expected to continue evolving in the weeks ahead
but this will give you a good idea of what to
expect. Some of the
early highlights include an Opening Dinner
Reception Sunday evening (Jan. 22), a Policy
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Muscovitch Monday morning
and an Ask Me Anything session with GoDaddy
President for Domains Paul Nicks Monday
afternoon. That day will also feature a panel
discussion covering UDRP Reform Proposals.
Networking opportunities and multiple social events
will also be part of the appealing three-day
mix.
If
you want to go, time is running out to take
advantage of an Early Bird ticket offer that
will knock $100 off the price, cutting it to
just $199 (members can buy a ticket for a plus-one
guest too). On Tuesday, November 1 the price
goes up to the standard $299. That's a great deal
but here is one that is even better - a free
ticket for for anyone who joins the
ICA and pays for an annual membership. If you
are a professional in this industry you really should
be a member of this 15-year-old non-profit
organization that has consistently demonstrated its
ability to effectively fight to protect domain
owner's rights. Like the early bird deal, you will
need to act fast to take advantage of the
free ticket offer as Monday is the last day
for both promotions.
One
other thing, the ICA announced they have been able
to add more rooms at Resorts World to the ICA
block that will allow you to book your room for just
$100
a night (+ taxes and fees). If
you are looking for a great way to kick off the New
Year and get your domain enterprise off to a fast
start, the ICA Annual Meeting is just the ticket!
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Good
Aftermarket News, a Great New Book, the Rise of
Radix, Sunrise for .Giving and Epik's New
CEO!
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I
normally like to do an individual post
for each item in The Lowdown, but I have
had so many interesting items come in I decided to
bring them all together for this end of the week
wrap up. I'll give you the basics about each item,
along with a link to get full details - information
that I hope will set you up for some very enlightening
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For starters, with
all of the turbulence in the general economy,
domain investors are paying close attention to aftermarket
results in an effort to get a handle on how
domain sales are being affected. The latest Liquid
Market Report from GGRG
brokerage (the 23rd quarterly issue in this
series) covering the 3rd quarter of 2022 included
some encouraging news for at least one
important segment of the market. "Liquid
Domains" is GGRG's term for short acronym
and numeric domains that, due to steady
demand, tend to have more liquidity than
most other domain categories. These are .com
domains comprised of 2-4 letters, 2-5 numbers
or a combination of 2-3 characters mixing letters
and numbers. GGRG Founder Giuseppe
Graziano reported
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ShortNames.com
doubled from $10 million in the
previous quarter to $20 million in
Q3-2022. Not only that, sales volume at Escrow.com
went up from $5.5 million to $23.2 million,
a remarkable 313% increase! Be sure to
check out the full
report for a detailed breakdown of how
the individual categories within the liquid class
fared.
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Now,
if you want to dig into some serious reading
about the current tenuous state of geopolitical
cybersecurity, a well-known figure in
our space, Khaled
Fattel, Chairman and CEO of the
Los Angeles-based Multi-Lingual Internet
Group (MLi
Group) has a best selling new
book out. The synopsis for Survivability
(Confronting the Unprecedented Risks of
Today’s Geo-Poli-Cyber™ Threatened World
to Competitively Thrive in the 21st Century)
notes "In 2020,the COVID-19 pandemic
exposed western democracies’ systemic
failure to prepare for a precedented
threat. This cost too many lives that could
have been saved. Moreover, it exposed grave
malfunctions in the current global world
order—and its economic, legislative,
regulative, and democratic models and
institutions. It also crystalized that cyber
security defenses and designs accepted as
gospel are no longer fit for the purposes of
defending the nation, businesses, and
protecting the citizen.
Consider governmental failures to
prepare for a pandemic they were warned
about. Will yours be ready for cyber
terrorism? Election meddling? Fake news? How
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sinister exploitations
of IOT, AI, and quantum computing? Overall,
is your government prepared to mitigate Geo-Poli-Cyber™
attacks? This book explores those
certainties and new paths forward."
You can get
Khaled's timely new book at Amazon. |
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As most of our
readers know, new gTLD domain registry
operator Radix
is currently commemorating their 10th
anniversary with a big We Are X celebration.
The latest twist in the party is a trip down
memory lane by way of a 10 Years of
Radix infographic
(.pdf file) the company built to highlight
Radix's milestones and key achievements over
the past decade. It all began in 2012 when
Radix applied for 31 new TLD extensions.
They emerged from the competition with the 10
solid TLDS that have underpinned Radix's
rapid growth - .online, .tech, .site,
.store, .host, .website, .fun, .space,
.press and .uno. Happy Anniversary Radix! |
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Speaking
of new TLDs - another one just launched
this week! The latest newcomer is .GIVING,
a new TLD launched by the Public
Interest Registry (PIR), who is
already known far and wide as the
administrators of .ORG. .GIVING
entered Sunrise Thursday (October 13,
2022), giving holders of a trademark
that has previously been verified by the Trademark
Clearing House an opportunity to secure
their name before General Availability
begins on January 20, 2023.
.GIVING can be used by any mission-driven
organization – including for-profit
entities – to establish a standalone
website dedicated to a specific
fundraising effort, serving as a
complement to its primary website. For
example, a for-profit entity could create a
separate website or microsite using the
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a purpose-driven
fundraising campaign conveying a strong,
dedicated commitment to supporting
mission-driven purpose distinct from their
for-profit operations. |
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Last but not
least (though definitely late on my
part), I want to share the news
that was released during NamesCon
Global last month about domain
registrar Epik
getting a new CEO in veteran technologist
and entrepreneur Brian Royce. Brian
steps in for Epik Founder and previous CEO Rob
Monster who decided to move into a
non-executive role as Chairman of the
Board. Rob noted that Brian had joined
Epik earlier this year as EVP Operations and
quickly made an impact across several areas
of the business. You can expect Brian to
keep Epik on the proven track that Rob
blazed. Brian said, "We are committed
to our mission of helping entrepreneurs and
domain investors make a profit and be
successful!”
I
had actually gotten the news about the
changeover directly from Rob when he
introduced me to Brian at an evening social
event at NamesCon the night before the
official press release went out. I was tied
up covering the show that week so didn't
have a chance to write about anything else
until after the conference. Then, shortly
after I had gotten home and started catching
up, Hurricane
Ian |
Brian
Royce
CEO, Epik |
appeared in the Gulf of Mexico, heading
north and predicted to smash directly into the Tampa
Bay area where we are located. We started battening
everything down for the storm that we all now know
took an unexpected early turn into the Fort
Myers area, 75 miles south of us. We wound up being
unscathed here but our hearts ache for our friends
and fellow Floridians further down the coast who
have been devastated by Ian. It will be a long road
back for that beautiful part of the Sunshine State
but the region and its people, working together,
will get the job done.
Wishing
you all blue skies and a great weekend and we'll be
back here next week, same time, same channel!
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CryptoExchange.com
Introduces Crypto Domain Escrow + Crypto to $
Conversion for Secret Brokerage Sales
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In one of our
bi-weekly domain sales reports last
month you may recall seeing three of
the top ten sales jointly credited to SecretBrokerage.com
and CryptoExchange.com
- Rake.com at $175,000, Hot.co.uk at
$99,500 and
Stretcher.com at $35,000. In addition to
being impressive sales, I noted in that report
that in each case the buyer wanted to pay with
cryptocurrency but the seller wanted to receive US
dollars. The extra
hoops that creates can derail a deal but all three
sales were completed in friction free escrow
protected transactions thanks to a
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Founder Arif
Sengoren formed with Crypto Exchange. As part of
that agreement, Arif also became Senior VP
of a new Domain Division at Crypto
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This is the
kind of service a lot of people
have been looking for since the Covid-fueled boom in
domain and digital asset sales began a
couple of years ago. That surge resulted in a
lot of veteran domain owners who weren't
sold on crypto finding
themselves in a marketplace where
crypto-rich buyers wanted to use their preferred currency to diversify
into domains. That is where Sengoren, who is intimately familiar with
both camps, saw an opportunity to team up
with Crypto Exchange (CE) to help currency of both
kinds flow smoothly through this
increasingly busy intersection of old and
new. |
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Arif
Sengoren
Founder, SecretBrokerage.com |
I've now had a
chance to circle back
around to Arif and get more details on
exactly how the service works. It
starts when a CE client who has set their sites on a
particular domain decides they also want SecretBrokerage.com's
(SB) help to acquire that domain. In that
case, if the buyer wants to pay with
cryptocurrency but the seller will only
accept US $, SB pays for
the domain in dollars from their own
account, with that transaction typically
done through Escrow.com. Then,
effectively becoming the seller, SB accepts cryptocurrency
payment from the buyer through CE who also provide a
new cryptocurrency
escrow service to protect both
parties.
Arif noted,
"SecretBrokerage uses
CryptoExchange.com (CE) for our crypto
transactions and CE sends us their
clients who want to acquire domains.
Rake.com was a good example of this. The
CE client wanted Rake.com and we were able
to acquired it for them and allow
them to pay for it with
cryptocurrency."
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As
most of our readers know, crypto prices have fallen
significantly this year, so we had to wonder if that
has impacted the number of domain transactions SB
and CE are handling. Sengoren said, "No,
the price of crypto hasn't affected the volume of
transactions we do. People buy or sell domains with
crypto for several reasons. One bears repeating - Privacy
Privacy Privacy! Two, it is difficult for a lot
of people to cash out crypto. Three, taxes.
In a lot of jurisdictions using crypto to buy a
domain creates no tax on the crypto profit. Four, diversification of their assets while
keeping them digitally based. In the end, it is the
overall economy that decided how many transactions
are being done."
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CryptoExchange
handles transactions involving physical
goods as well as digital assets. Their Bitcoin
Marketplace allows consumers to
buy products with bitcoin and product owners
to sell their items for cryptocurrency.
While domains have been the top sellers at
CE, watches are a strong number two,
followed by cars and real estate.
Most transactions remain private, so the few
domain sales that have been reported from
SB/CE have been made public only because
both the buyer and seller allowed the
information to be released.
You can learn
more CryptoExchange.com
and SecretBrokerage.com
on their respective websites. Also, as
someone who has never owned or used
cryptocurrency, I found the Learning
Center at CryptoExchange.com to
be a very useful resource. It covers
every aspect of cryptocurrency, including definitions
of the dozens of terms the crypto field has
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ICA
Returning to Las Vegas for 2023 Meeting in January
With Free Ticket Offer for New Premium Members
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The
Internet
Commerce Association (ICA),
the non-profit organization that fights for domain
owner rights, will be returning to Las Vegas
January 22-24 for the group's 2023
Member Meeting. The upcoming event will be
held at the new Hilton-owned Resorts World
complex that opened in June 2021, just a few
months before the ICA hosted their 15th
Anniversary meetup at the Green Valley
Ranch in nearby Henderson. Early
bird tickets for the 2023 Meeting are
$199 through the rest of October but will increase
to to $299 on November 1. If you are not
yet an ICA member, you can get a free ticket
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the
event by joining at any of the premium membership
levels, including the Individual level.
That offer also expires at the end of October.
You
can also now book your discounted
hotel rooms at Resorts World for just
$100 a night + taxes and fees. The cut-off date for
booking rooms in the ICA room block is December
30th, however space is limited and could
sell out before then.
The
ICA has designed their annual meetings to be fun
events that include networking opportunities,
educational sessions, member meetings and social
activities. All industry participants are
invited to join
and attend and if you go you can count on a warm
welcome from current members and the ICA staff.
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After
Selling $519 Million Worth of Domains in a 1-Year
Span Escrow.com Sees Them as the REAL Land of the
Metaverse
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Figures
from Escrow.com's
newly released Q2-2022
Domain Investment Index revealed
the company rang up $256 million in domain
name sales volume in the first half of 2022 and a
total of $519 million over the 12-month
period ending June 30. The latter figure
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Escrow.com
Domain Name
Sales (USD), trailing twelve
months
Having
handled transactions for premium domain names Meta.com,
Uber.com, Instagram.com,
Twitter.com, Crypto.com
and many others, Escrow.com staked a claim to be
"the the place where the land of the
metaverse is bought and sold" in a detailed
press
release issued today. Escrow.com
CEO Matt Barrie noted, "Virtual real
estate isn't a plot of land in the metaverse next to
Snoop Dogg or an NFT on the
blockchain, it's domain names. When Facebook
rebranded to Meta, it didn’t buy virtual
land in a game. Facebook bought the best possible
address in the best street on the internet: meta.com."
The
Escrow.com release highlighted the diverging
fortunes of the domain name aftermarket vs. NFTs
with a link to an article at CoinTelegraph.com
titled Metaverse housing bubble bursting?
Virtual land prices crash 85% amid waning interest.
Escrow.com added supporting evidence for the domain
name case with these points:
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Over the last two years, the average price of
premium domain names has boomed. The average
sale price in 2Q22 was US$49,910.65, up 28% from
US$38,939.57 in 2Q21, and up a whopping 199%
from US$16,694.49 in 2Q20.
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The gains have not all been at the high end, with the
median sale price for domain names up 23% to $5,000 from
$4,064 in 2Q21, and doubling in 2Q22 from
$2,500 in 2Q20.
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Some niche segments outperformed: four-letter domains (LLLL.com) appreciated to a median of
$10,000, up 59% from $6,300 in 2Q21 and
$3,500 (up 186%) in 2Q20.
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Andrew
Rosener, CEO of MediaOptions.com,
added “Domain names are the bedrock foundation on which the
entire internet is built upon, including Web3 and
NFTs. Value accrues from the top down. So as more adoption occurs and more technologies and utility is created on top of the internet and its digital pipe lines, the more value accrues to
the land beneath; namely domain names.”
Rosener,
who has won Escrow.com's Master of Domains
Award for the last three years in a row
(presented to the world's highest sales volume broker
on the Escrow.com platform), can also back
up his view with a long record of
blockbuster sales, including NFT.com
at $2.1 million and Zoom.com
at $2 million. |
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Verisign
Reports Worldwide Domain Registrations Reached
351.5 Million at the End of 2Q-2022
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Verisign
(the administrator of the .com and .net
TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain
Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering
the second quarter of 2022. The quarter
ended with 351.5 million domain name
registrations across all top-level domains
(TLDs) worldwide, a gain of 10.4 million
domains from the same point a year ago,
representing a 3% increase year over year.
Total registrations were up by one million
from the end 1Q-2022 (a 0.3% rise that
represents a considerably slower rate of
growth than we saw for the past year as a whole). At
the end of 2Q-2022, .com registrations
reached 161.1 million, 3.1 million
higher than at the same point a year ago,
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a
2.6% jump YOY. .Net did not fare as well,
losing 400,000 domains over the past year to
finish 2Q-2022 with 13.2 million
registrations.
Total
country-code TLD domain name registrations came
in at 134.1 million at the end of the
2Q-2022, a gain of 2.6 million domains (2%)
year over year. The top 10 ccTLDs, as of June 30,
2022, were .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .ru, .br, .fr, .eu,
.au and .it.
Total new
gTLD domain name registrations stood at 27.0 million at the end of the
2Q-2022 after enjoying a healthy 18.1% jump year
over year with the addition of 4.1 million registrations.
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GoDaddy
Beefs Up Newly Acquired Dan.com With Addition of
Domain Brokerage Services
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After
acquiring
innovative domain sales platform Dan.com
in June GoDaddy is moving quickly, in
tandem with the existing Dan team, to make the
already popular aftermarket option even more
appealing. An email sent to Dan customers today
broke the latest news, stating "We’re
excited to share progress on this combined effort
with the launch of Dan Brokerage, in
partnership with the world’s leading domain
broker, GoDaddy." The
message, above a "Dan Brokerage Team"
signature, promised the new service will give Dan
customers access to more than 100 experienced
brokers stationed around the world with close
to 24/7 coverage that will provide faster
response time to both sellers and their
prospective buyers.
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The
message, sent from support@dan.com,
concluded "At
Dan, we’re driven by the idea of putting customers
first. We’re confident this new brokerage
capability where you can relay any negotiation
with a value of at least $1,000 to our
brokerage team, will benefit our sellers.
To discover what this team can do for your
portfolio, simply respond to this email."
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