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.
Earlier this week, Mine.com entered the pending deletion auction phase. Currently, the bid has reached $497,500 and is still rising. As a high-quality English word domain name, Mine.com naturally has huge advantages.
Virgil Griffith, who was imprisoned for helping North Korea evade sanctions, was released after serving 36 months in prison, accidentally pushing the Eth.link domain name, which had attracted widespread attention, back into the public eye.
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%.
The domain name Shine.co was sold for $80,000, which attracted attention in the domain name circle. "Shine" means "shine", and many international brands and startups use "Shine" as their company names, making it a high-demand brand keyword.
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.
The three-letter domain name TXT.com was recently sold for US$502,400. The buyer adopted a "rent first, then buy" payment method and has now paid the down payment.
InternetNZ, the official registry for New Zealand's country code top-level domain .nz, has announced a price increase for all .nz domains. Effective July 1, 2025.
The domain name, which was supposed to be transferred smoothly due to corporate bankruptcy, became deadlocked during the transaction and was ultimately decided through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
Recently, the domain name C1.ai was sold for $65,000. According to public records, C1.ai was sold for $910 on January 6, 2020. In just five years, its price has increased by 7043%.