Among the approximately 350 million registered domain names in the world, there are only 676 two-letter .com domain names. However, IZ.com, which was sold for $625,000 in 2017, has entered the auction due to expiration.
On March 15, 2025, the world's first registered .com domain name, Symbolics.com, will celebrate its 40th anniversary. As a witness to the history of the Internet, its owner has set a asking price of $20 million for this domain name.
According to the latest transaction data, digital domain names performed well, occupying 7 of the top 10 places, with 9698.com topping the list with a transaction price of US$46,500.
On March 15, 2024, the world’s first registered .com domain name, symbolics.com, celebrated its 40th birthday. The domain name was registered on March 15, 1985, marking the official start of the commercial Internet era.
The dynamic of the domain name Xai.com jumping to the official website of X.ai has attracted widespread attention. The domain name was sold for $18,975 as early as 2009 and has long been pointing to a fixed login page.
Recently, Rocket successfully acquired the famous American real estate website Redfin for $1.75 billion. This move not only changed the industry landscape.
Yesterday, the famous domain name investor Dharmesh announced that he had successfully acquired os.ai for US$150,000. This move once again aroused widespread attention in the industry to high-quality domain name transactions.
Recently, the two-letter domain name GX.com was successfully traded for a high price of US$1.2 million, further consolidating the scarcity and high value of two-letter .com domain names in the domain name market.
ICANN announced that it will stop using the Soviet-era .su country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in 2030. The domain has been in use since 1990 and currently has about 100,000 registered domain names.
Recently, the listed company Xiamen Mitong Technology Co., Ltd. announced that it plans to sell its top-level domain name DNS.com to Hong Kong Juwang Technology Co., Ltd. for RMB 14.4865 million (approximately US$2 million).