On May 13, 2025, domain investor Andrew Miller announced on X that he sold the domain Seed.ai for $225,000. This is currently the second highest .ai domain transaction record in 2025.
According to NameBio's public data, there have been many high-priced transactions in the domain name trading market in the past few weeks, among which icon.com changed hands for US$12 million, the highest price disclosed so far this year.
On May 12, Escrow.com announced the 2025 Master of Domains Award list, which is to recognize the top ten domain brokers with the highest transaction volume in 2024 to recognize their outstanding performance in the domain industry.
Rush.ai was sold for US$300,000. The original owner purchased it for US$6,011 in 2023. It appreciated nearly 50 times in two years, becoming one of the high-priced transactions in the .ai domain name market this year.
Today, a friend in the industry shared a message that the four-letter domain name QFEX.com has been successfully traded for 80,000 RMB (about 11,000 USD). The highlight of this domain name is its "EX" suffix, which is impressive.
Verisign released its Q1 2025 financial report, with the total number of .com/.net domain names increasing by 778,000, ending the quarterly decline trend of nearly two years.
The three-day industry event ended successfully last night at The Clarion Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. NDD has been around for ten years since it was founded by LG Forsberg in 2015.
On April 28, the premium English domain name Mine.com was auctioned and sold for $680,000. The buyer's account was "17excom". The auction attracted fierce competition, and three bidders continued to bid after the price exceeded $500,000.
VeriSign has released its latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB), with registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) reaching 368.4 million in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.7%.
Kennan Davison, CEO of ad tech startup icon, announced on LinkedIn that his company has acquired icon.com for $12 million. The deal is the largest publicly reported domain name transaction this year and the sixth largest in history.