Verisign released its third quarter Domain Industry The report said there were 174 million domain names registered worldwide (the total across all extensions) at the end of the third quarter (Sept. 30). That is an increase of 3% over the previous quarter and 19% over the total registered at the end of the same quarter [...]

As reported from DN Journal firt two weeks of March, 2009 Dot Com: The top sale is Toys.com, sold for $5,100,000. This was sold through Bankruptcy Auction. Dot Net: The top sale is Cosmetics.net, sold for $25,000. This was sold through Moniker. (very good price for buyer) Country code TLDs: The top sale is LOL.de. [...]

The term geodomain refers to domain names that are the same as those of geographic entities, such as cities and countries. Examples of geodomains are Atlanta.com, LosAngeles.com, Texas.com and Memphis.org. Since geographical names are limited in number, and have instant name recognition, geodomains are highly valued, with .com extension geodomains valued the most highly. Geodomains [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]