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Domain aftermarket prices and trends

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:55:29 +0000

Domain name sales occurring in the aftermarket are frequently submitted to the DN journal. The sales are listed weekly and include the top aftermarket resellers which include but are not limited to Sedo, Traffic (auctions), Afternic, NameJet, Moniker and private sales.
To date, and according to Guinness World Records and MSNBC, the most expensive domain name sales on record as of 2004 were:

Resale of domain names

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:55:02 +0000

The business of resale of previously registered domain names is known as the domain aftermarket. Various factors influence the perceived value or market value of a domain name. Annually tens of millions of dollars change hands in connection with the resale of domains. Large numbers of registered domain names lapse and are deleted each year. On average, more than 25,000 domain names drop (are deleted) every day.

Domain name registration

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:54:40 +0000

The right to use a domain name is delegated by domain name registrars which are accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the name and number systems of the Internet. In addition to ICANN, each top-level domain (TLD) is maintained and serviced technically by an administrative organization, operating a registry. A registry is responsible for maintaining the database of names registered within the TLD it administers. The registry receives registration information from each domain name registrar authorized to assign names in the corresponding TLD and publishes the information using a special service, the whois protocol.

Internationalized domain names

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:54:07 +0000

The character set allowed in the Domain Name System has prevented the representation of names and words of many languages in their native scripts or alphabets. ICANN has approved the Punycode-based Internationalized domain name (IDNA) system, which maps Unicode strings into the valid DNS character set. Some registries have adopted IDNA.

Second-level and lower level domains

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:46:38 +0000

Below the top-level domains in the domain name hierarchy are the second-level domain (SLD) names. These are the names directly to the left of .com, .net, and the other top-level domains. As an example, in the domain en.wikiBelow the top-level domains in the domain name hierarchy are the second-level domain (SLD) names. These are the names directly to the left of .com, .net, and the other top-level domains. As an example, in the domain en.wikipedia.org, wikipedia is the second-level domain.pedia.org, wikipedia is the second-level domain.

Top-level domains

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:45:10 +0000

The top-level domains (TLDs) are the highest level of domain names of the Internet. They form the DNS root zone of the hierarchical Domain Name System. Every domain name ends in a top-level or first-level domain label.

Parts of a domain name

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:43:42 +0000

A domain name consists of one or more parts, technically called labels, that are conventionally concatenated, and delimited by dots, such as example.com.

The domain name space

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:43:09 +0000

The domain name space consists of a tree of domain names. Each node in the tree holds information associated with the domain name. The tree sub-divides into zones beginning at the root zone.

Domain name

deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:41:24 +0000

Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes

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deltaforce12345 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:47:36 +0000

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