Mobile.net Wins Weekly Sales List at $500,000

Mobile.net,sold for $500,000,topped Domain Name Journal sales list of reported domain names for the last week,ending April 6,2014.

DomainNameSales had a great week in the sales chart,taking 38 of the top 40 positions .Correspondingly,Sedo took 3 of the top 40 positions .

.COM dominated once again the list,with 40 sales.

Here are the top 40 positions for the two week ending April 6,2014:

1. Mobile.net     $500,000
2. BOE.com     $120,000
3. 106.com     $107,000
4. Moki.com     $66,100
5. Zaker.com     $62,100
6. IncomeTaxRefund.com     $58,000
7. PopupShop.com     $57,000
8. GolfSwing.com     $56,250
9. CitySuites.com     $52,300
10.tie     CourseFinder.com     $50,000
10.tie     LEDLightBulbs.com     $50,000
12.tie     PopcornMachines.com     $45,000
12.tie     Purch.com     $45,000
12.tie     Tatyana.com     $45,000
15. Overdraft.com     $42,000
16. Lossless.com     $41,100
17.tie     Aipu.com     $40,000
17.tie     Buzzboard.com     $40,000
17.tie     FLP.com     $40,000
20. Taillights.com     $39,200
21. FantasyDraft.com     $36,000
22.tie     TheGuard.com     $35,000
22.tie     Tokin.com     $35,000
22.tie     Tomat.com     $35,000
25. AmericanHighSchool.com     $33,840
26. Hoverboard.com     $32,500
27. BETM.com     $32,000
28. Kartor.se     $31,050
29. VehicleHistoryReport.com     $31,000
30.tie     FJLY.com     $30,000
30.tie     LuxuryLiving.com     $30,000
30.tie     Thriver.com     $30,000
30.tie     VWO.com     $30,000
34.tie     CasinoGames.ca     $28,000
34.tie     CityLab.com     $28,000
36.tie     CoinNews.com     $27,500
36.tie     Filmbook.com     $27,500
38.     Depilacion.com     $26,600
39.tie     AngelInvesting.com     $25,000
39.tie     EasyFix.com     $25,000
39.tie     Krash.com     $25,000
39.tie     LSDA.com     $25,000
39.tie     Mailbox.org     $25,000
39.tie     WeedTV.com     $25,000

See here the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales .

Heritage Auction Second Domain Name Auction Results

Heritage Auction second domain name auction ended yesterday . The auction featured 100 domain names, out of which only 28 sold.The other 72 didn’t reach the reserve.

The highest selling domain name was LK.com, which changed hands for $287,500 .

Here are the results :

HY.com     $8,050
CardBlog.com     $575
GradedCoins.com     $4,600
KYU.com     $6,900
DiamondExperts.com     $2,070
WatchExperts.com     $1,495
CurrencyCorporation.com     $575
WallStGuru.com     $431.25
FineArtBuyer.com     $575
WHJ.com     $6,900
CardDigest.com     $345
WatchDoctor.com     $862.50
Scores.tv     $126.50
Smart.org     $20,125
XKU.com     $5,750
MercuryMan.com (plus IP Rights to Comic Character)     $2,990
LK.com     $287,500
CurrencyCatalog.com     $575
WineLetter.com     $184
JMQ.com     $8,050
ZHL.com     $7,475
GunBlue.com     $1,725
YLQ.com     $8,625
JerseyCollector.com     $172.50
HQG.com     $6,900
NQZ.com     $6,900
GunParts.com     $57,500
CardBroker.com     $575

ICANN Draft Five-Year Strategic Plan (FY16 – FY20)

Public comment is invited on the Draft ICANN Five–Year Strategic Plan (FY16–FY20) through May 2014.

Built on community input received throughout an extensive, public strategy conversation, the Draft Strategic Plan proposes a new Vision, reiterates ICANN’s existing Mission, and describes five focus areas with Strategic Objectives and Goals. Each goal includes proposed, strategic outcomes, risks, measures and phasing over five years. ICANN is seeking general feedback, as well as input on the proposed measurable outcomes for the Focus Area Goals. Your comments will help inform the final ICANN Five–Year Strategic Plan.
Public Comment Box Link: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/stratplan-draft-09apr14-en.htm

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-09apr14-en.htm

Global Domain Registrations Grow 7.3 Percent In 2013 To 271 Million

The number of registered domain names keeps growing, with five million domain names added in the final quarter of 2013, reports Verisign in their latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The number of registered domains was 271 million globally at the end of 2013. For the full year, registrations grew by 18.5 million, or 7.3 percent, year over year.

In the market leading TLD when it comes to registrations, .com grew to 112 million registrations, while .net grew to 15.2 million. Their combined 127.2 million registrations represent a five percent increase for 2013. For the final quarter of 2013 new .com and .net registrations totalled 8.2 million, slightly higher for the same quarter in 2012 when registrations grew by 8.2 million.

The ten largest TLDs at the end of 2013 but with current registration figures were, in order, .com (113.17m), .tk (Tokelau – 22.10m)+, .de (Germany – 15.75m), .net (15.18m), .uk (United Kingdom – 10.55m), .org (10.43m), .cn (China – 10.29m), .info (5.79m), .ru (Russian Federation – 4.93m) and .nl (Netherlands – 5.45m).*

Total ccTLD registrations were approximately 123.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2013 with the addition of 3.9 million domain names, or a 3.3 percent increase compared to the third quarter according to the report. This is an increase of approximately 13.3 million domain names, or 12.1 percent, from a year ago.

Among the 20 largest ccTLDs, two exceeded four percent overall quarter-over-quarter growth: China and Tokelau. This marks four straight quarters where China (21.1 percent) and Tokelau (7.1 percent) have exceeded 4 percent growth.

As of 31 December, there were 283 global ccTLD extensions that are delegated in the root (including Internationalised Domain Names), with the top 10 ccTLDs comprising 65.6 percent of all ccTLD registrations.

During the fourth quarter of 2013, Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was 82 billion across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak of 100 billion. Compared to the previous quarter, the daily average increased 0.9 percent and the peak decreased 5.5 percent. Year over year, the daily average increased 6.4 percent and the peak decreased 19.2 percent.

In a plug to encourage registrants to consider .com domains instead of another gTLD including the hundreds of new gTLDs that will soon be available or a ccTLD, Verisign provides the number of possible domains that are available from four to 13 characters. For four character .com domains, there are over 845,600 combinations still available. Undoubtedly most of these are for domains that are random combinations of letters and numbers. And when it gets to the possible number of 13 character .com domains available, Verisign report there are over 230.5 quintillion.

As the Internet continues to evolve, it is crucial for enterprises to have a powerful and resilient infrastructure that maintains 24/7 availability. “DNS Outages: The Challenges of Operating Critical Infrastructure” provides a high-level overview of the implications of DNS outages and the importance of staying ahead of threats.

Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief can be downloaded from www.verisigninc.com/en_US/innovation/dnib/index.xhtml.

* The statistics come from registry websites, registrarstats.com and domain-recht.de and uses current statistics as the Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief does not provide figures apart from for .com and .net.

+ Revenue for .tk domains is generated by monetising the expired domain names. Domains that are no longer used by the registrant or are expired are taken back by Freenom and the residual traffic is sold to advertisement networks. Next to this primary source of income, additional revenue will be generated by offering digital white labeled services, such as hosting packages, SSL certificates and others, to free domain name users. Source: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131216006048/en/Freenom-Closes-3M-Series-Funding.