The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia’s biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday. Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of Germany’s United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent [...]

  A good domain name is relatively short. A short name — if you can get it — is important for several reasons. It is easy to fit into logos, makes a better brand, is more easily recognizable, and is harder to misspell. Some companies have 50-character domain names spelling out their whole company name. That’s [...]

The first step is to make sure that your domain registrar offers “Forwarding” or “Redirection” service. If you do not know what “Forwarding” or “Redirection” is let me explain. Forwarding a domain name means that your domain registrar will forward anyone that types a domain that has forwarding on it to another domain. For example [...]

4C Valuation Model 4C Valuation Model represents a system of domain appraisal based on four key criteria, or the four C’s: Character, Commerce, .Com and Comparables, otherwise known as Comps. While each of these valuation criteria is important, all four together more accurately determine the fair market value of a Domain Name.  To complete the Appraisal, [...]

The following domain names are known to have received over US$1 million in the public domain name aftermarket, lead by sex.com in 2006. There are many more names which have sold in the private market for substantially more. Ninety-eight percent of all domain sales we have tracked since 1/1/2006 sold for less than US$10,000..  Amount [...]