Based on whois records, Demand Media has sold the domain name and website Trails.com to LoveToKnow Corp.
It appears the transaction took place about April 9, 2016 when the copyright changed on the Trails.com website from Demand Media to LoveToKnow.
Demand Media also sold Cracked.com to E.W. Scripps for $39 Million in April 2016. Since Trails.com appears to have also sold in April 2016, I am not sure why Demand Media didn’t announce that sale that I am aware of.… Read the rest
I have complied data from DnJournal.com’s Top 100 reported (most high value domain name sales go unreported) domain name sales for the past 6 years and have broken them down to give you an idea of what you will need to budget to purchase a premium .com domain name.
The following data is from the years 2010-2015 and are confirmed reported domain name sales.
By The Years: Top 100 Total Reported Domain Name Sales
For those not aware of it, popular domain industry research service DomainTools is raising rates on users next renewal date and slashing the amount of uses per services it offers with the price hike.
Rate hikes are common (not 725% in my case), rate hike + slashing the amount of “look-ups” to go with it are not. Higher price, less use doesn’t make that much sense to pay the new higher monthly rates IMO.
This is a big deal for … Read the rest
After discovering the latest domain name portfolio purchase by GoDaddy, I have yet to have a good idea of the size and quality of the domain portfolio purchase. The light is starting to shine a little brighter now though!
The elephant is the 23 confirmed 2 letter .com domain names acquired in the portfolio with the potential for that number to climb to 26.
It is a big process to transfer ownership of all these domain names, so it … Read the rest
