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Gamers mostly use the .gg domain extension, but it's technically the ccTLD for Guernsey.

I came across a website called Channel Island Hosting that offers .gg domain registration (among other TLDs). What's special about this registrar is that it's a local company located in Guernsey.

I haven't used it before, and I like the idea of supporting a local business, however, from previous experiences with similar "small/local" companies, they don't usually have the best support service. They only have 1 review on Trustpilot, and it's a negative one.

Anyway, even if you buy the domain from a foreign registrar, the .gg registry still gets a cut (the wholesale price) for each domain registration and renewal.

We got another new gTLD coming soon: the .dot.

Here's the launch timeline from the registry's website:

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I kind of like the way it sounds (dot-dot), but I'm not sure about it.

Too bad dot.dot is already taken (by the registry)

Pricing may make it or break it.

Only £50 for the expired domain name Mule.uk! I expected it to sell for a little more, but there was only one bidder interested in it. It's a humorous domain name.

What's the first thing that came to your mind when you heard this word? Hint: It's a P2P thing you used to waste a lot of time on back in the day!!

The domain name LondonCommunityResponseFund.org.uk has just been sold in a drop-catch auction for £3,499.

That's a very long domain name, but it's got some solid backlinks.

See.sh has expired and it's currently in auction at a $502 highest bid.

Meaning?

"See" sounds like C and SH sounds like itself, so it resonates with csh = C shell.

But would you rather get see.sh or c.sh? The latter is listed for sale at a $14k BIN.

All the political drama about the future of the .io TLD isn't stopping investors and end users from spending big bucks on premium .io domains.

These are the highest .io domain sales of 2026 thus far:

Domain	Sold for
thunder.io	$179,995
ninja.io	$95,000
gum.io	$45,000
trace.io	$42,000
bug.io	$30,000
maxbet.io	$20,000
mothership.io	$15,000
caliper.io	$14,995
fruit.io	$14,200
intime.io	$12,750

These two expired .org domains have been recently sold at GoDaddy:

• refund.org sold for $40,508
• commission.org sold for $36,000

Both domains were registered in 1997 just a couple of days apart. I think they belonged to the same owner before expiring.

"The world's biggest internet domain seller, GoDaddy, has warned that India's crackdown on fake websites impersonating famous brands will make the internet less safe for legitimate ​businesses and carry global ramifications."

I don't think the domain name 999A.com is worth $40k, or even 1% of that, but someone else disagrees 100% and they just bought it from an expired GoDaddy auction for $40,001.

I can think of better ways to invest $40k, but it's not my money!!

Someone just bought the domain name Covfefe.com for $2,650 from an expired auction on GoDaddy's aftermarket.

This domain was registered 10 years ago on May 31, 2017; the same day the word "Covfefe" was invented by someone who probably knows very little about digital real estate.

Still, to this day, no one knows what that word means!!

Almost every day there is another newbie/wannabe domainer asking for appraisal of their freshly registered domain.

The domain? It's a brandable, hand-registered .com domain name that sounds great to them.

Here are some examples of those "brandable" domains I've just made up off the top of my head (all available):

• tontat.com
• piltox.com
• joojer.com
• abocty.com
• zytomy.com

I'm not kidding; these are the type of domains that many beginners buy and try to flip!!

Don't do that. Don't waste your money on brandable .com domains that mean nothing. Those very rarely sell. Domain investing takes careful research of market trends.

Most hand-reg domains have no resale value. Although exceptions happen, that's a bad strategy and a waste of your time and money.

The Namecheap auction for the expired domain name Fruit.io closed yesterday at $14,200.

This is now the highest .io domain sale at Namecheap's marketplace, replacing fish.io (sold for $11,311)

GoDaddy became a publicly traded company in 2015, and NameSilo in 2018.

Do you know any other publicly traded domain registrars?

The expired and dropped domain name Background.co.uk is currently at auction. The highest bid (at the time of writing this post) is £200.

How much resale potential do you think it has? It's a common dictionary word, but not easy to commercialize.

It's still a mystery to me, but some people have a strong urge to collect all the numeric domain names they can get!

These three domains sold yesterday at GoDaddy:

• 3435.com sold for $57,001
• 5383.com sold for $30,500
• 23999.com sold for $13,250

ShoppingCart.uk was registered in 2019. The owner is listing this domain for sale at Afternic but it looks like it's not getting much attention. The domain expires in 2 days and it's listed for sale for $99 at NotRenewing.

Would you give up on it?

Fruit.io has expired and it's being auctioned at Namecheap.

I like this domain name; it's so fruity!

Yesterday, the domain name gox.io sold for $1,125 at GoDaddy.

That got me curious about the highest 3-letter .io domain sales on GoDaddy's aftermarket. If you feel the same, these are the top 10:

Domain	Sold for
sea.io	$16,771
jup.io	$12,250
mox.io	$3,455
ash.io	$3,336
tie.io	$3,333
owo.io	$2,850
bde.io	$2,550
dtc.io	$2,475
acm.io	$2,475
del.io	$2,322

Most (or all) of these were probably bought by investors, so you're looking at resale prices.

They say hyphens in a domain name are bad, especially if it's a non-com domain, but that didn't stop these two .io domains from selling at Namecheap yesterday:

"ring-1.io" sold for $1,580 and "lol-beans.io" sold for $1,575.

Why? They have some backlinks, but why?

GoDaddy is making some serious money from selling expired numeric domains, and they seem to have an endless supply of those..

2238.com sold yesterday in a GoDaddy auction for $42,500.

There was another 4-digit domain sale at GoDaddy yesterday: 9315.com sold for $11,705.

They're not just random numbers; certain numbers have higher value than others.