For over four years, the Ethereum Name Service has allowed domain registrations on the Ethereum blockchain. Launched in May 2017, the ENS now boasts more than 270,000 .eth domain names on its network.
The ENS creators have now announced a major milestone, which is to allow the old guard onto its shiny new network.…
In July 2020, British SMS company IntisTele acquired the domain IT.co.uk for a reported £187,200 (around $242,000 at the time of the sale).
The sale made sense as a shorter, more accessible version of the difficult to spell IntisTele.com, and the company quickly started redirecting the domain to its existing website.…
In the August edition of the Sedo Sales Roundup, I’m looking at five domains that sold at Sedo to see whether we can understand why the names sold for the prices they did.
FastFood.com – $65,000
This domain was sold during Sedo’s GreatDomains auction, where it held an asking price of between $50,000 and $100,000.…
In May 2021, domain management and marketplace company Efty announced that one of its users sold the Eth.co domain name.
Eth.co sold for the buy-it-now price of $300,000, with the transaction reportedly handled via Escrow.com.
For months, the domain laid dormant, with the owner’s identity obscured by registrar GoDaddy’s privacy restrictions.…
Crypto.com
Originally named Monaco, using the Mona.co domain, the company rebranded to Crypto.com in 2018 after it acquired the Crypto.com domain name from its original owner, Matt Blaze. It has been reported that the company paid $12 million for Crypto.com, but that figure has never been substantiated.…
Another four-letter, single-word domain name has left the market.
Fall.com, a domain previously owned by Future Media Architects, Inc., has been sold in a deal brokered by Saw.com. According to Saw.com’s co-founder Amanda Waltz, the domain sale was facilitated by Saw.com’s…