A two letter .org domain takes the top spot. Sedo's two letter domain name auction ended this morning (PST). None of the valuable two letter .com domains got much traction, with top bids of just above $100,000. The two letter .com domains had ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Valuable two letter domain names hit the auction block
· Domain SalesSedo auction will help us understand the market for two letter domains. Sedo is running a two letter domain name auction that continues through Thursday, January 27. It will be interesting to see where the market for these short domains is, and ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
These 43 two letter .com domains are used by Chinese companies
· UncategorizedKassey Lee examined all 676 two letter .com combos to see how many are used by Chinese companies. A lot of 2L .com domains have moved to China, but how many of them are actually put to use? To answer this question, I generated a list of 676 ... Continue Reading4 Comments
SZ.com is latest two-letter domain to sell to China
· Domain SalesAnother two letter .com domain sale. The premium domain SZ.com has sold. According to the Whois record at Godaddy where the domain is registered, the domain was updated on September 16 and the owner is located in the Fujian Province of ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Why are two letter domains so sought after in China?
· UncategorizedKassey Lee explores why two letter domains are valuable to Chinese companies. Actually, I found the answer in a comment made by Jeff Sass (CMO of .club) on the September 7 DomainSherpa show -- even though he was not referring directly to ... Continue Reading2 Comments
The cultural reason 2 letter domains are valuable in China
· UncategorizedKassey Lee explains why two-letter domain names aren't valuable in China just because they are rare. Recently a domain investor asked me if ST has any meaning in Chinese. That got me thinking about 2L (letter-letter) domains in general. In fact, 2L ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Rightside has sold over 400 two letter domain names
· UncategorizedAverage sales price is over $1,000 and they come with premium renewals. Rightside began offering two-letter domain names under its 40 top level domain names back in September. The company has sold 416 of these domain names to date, the company told ... Continue Reading1 Comment
CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but you can’t have it
· Policy & LawCM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, ... Continue Reading24 Comments