This morning I wanted to look at the live auction results for NamesCon over the last three years, what’s on record at NameBio, which is here. That list showed that not only was there a slight rebound in total domain sales this year, but that the 2018 live auction netted the largest dollar amount total over the three year period. It also showed that the percentage of transactions for .com domains grew over the period with 56% being .com in 2016, 63% in 2017, and 69% in 2018. [/fullquoteRead MoreWhile there seems to be more and more gTLDs getting into the auctions, when it comes to actual done deals during the live auction, there were less and less dot alternatives each year. But what if we wanted to look at these numbers and remove all other TLDs from the equation, and only examine the results for .com sales? That is what is below and it shows that while some of the results sounded sort of dismal, it wasn’t that bad after all if you compare it to previous years...
