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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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Liu.com Leads NameJet Reported Sales in January 2014
NameJet reports $836,000 in reported sales for January. It was another strong month for short names as 34 out of the 83 reported names were 6 characters or less... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN’s Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives Them...
On 13 September 2013, ICANN entered into what may well be the most lucrative contract ever granted in ICANN’s history with Power Auctions LLC to conduct its Las... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Are The Days Of Outrageously Expensive Super Bowl Commercials Over ?
Avi Dan wrote a piece for Forbes on whether the days of big money ads on Super Bowl Sunday are over. Of course looking at a game that was a blowout makes... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
European Commission Weights In On ICANN Last Resort Auction & They Are Not Happy
The European Commission filed a comment on the recently updated ICANN’s New gTLD Auction Rules. To summarize the European Commission is “deeply concerned about... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Filed On Y8.Net; EntourageMovie.com; EntourageFilm.com
A few interesting UDRP filed today. Web Entertainment, LLC filed a UDRP on the domain name y8.net Y8.net is a gaming site, so is Y8.com which is owned under... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Who Won The Super Bowl Of Search ?
Vanessa Fox wrote piece on MarketingLand.com that took a look at the Super Bowl of Search. In the article she started out with how long they have been covering... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy BodyBuilder Ad Needed To Hit The Weights Harder
Go Daddy and their Super Bowl ad did not fare too well on Sunday. According to the Admeter on USA Today the bodybuilder ad finished in the bottom five.... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Who Does Search Arbitrage Benefit ?
Dan Monarko of Flying Cork Media took a look at the practice of search arbitrage, who it benefits and what they do to protect their clients. Search Arbitrage i... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sandwich.co Sells For 18K After The .Com Sells For $137,500
The domain name sandwich.co sold on Sedo today for $18,000 USD. Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich.com for $137,500 back in November 2013 also on Sedo. The... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Auctions January Market Report Led by Spokes.com
Go Daddy Auctions Market Report January 2014 Go Daddy sold 4386 less domains in January vs the previous month. In total there were 35, 209 sales in January vs... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domain Investors: Registrar Easy-Domains.co.uk Doesn’t Like You
In a press release issued today by domain name registrar Easy-Domains.co.uk, entitled “The new gLTDs mean a new Internet” (yes the title is wrong and should... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Super Bowl Ad Winners; Twitter Hash Tags: Losers Domain Names, Facebook
As most of you I just finished watching the Seattle blowout tonight in the Super Bowl on the advertising front I’m going to declare Twitter Hash Tags the big... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Business Insider Tech More: Mobile Internet of Things Consumer Electronics...
Business Insider has put out a detailed report on the Internet of Things. From the article detailing the report: Estimates for Internet of Things or IoT market... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
DomainNameSales.com Average Sale $15K; Set Min Commission at $175
In an announcement today on DomainNameSales.com, they are setting a $175 minium commission on all domain sales starting on February 15th. Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Tightens Security After @N Debacle
In another move related to the social engineering that took place at Go Daddy and allegedly Paypal (Paypal stands by the position they did not give the... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
2013 Turkish Domain Name Market Study
AlanAdlari.com put out their 2013 Turkish Domain Report Top 3 keywords for sales were Game,News and Ticket. The most popular lengths for domains that sold were... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Coupons.com Files for $100million IPO
Last week it was Care.com going public and soaring in its first day of trading and now another category killer .com, Coupons.com has filed to go public. When... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tnooz “Travel Domains Going for (not Exactly) a Song”
Linda Fox wrote a piece today on Tnooz.com about Tour.com being put up for sale for $3million. Tnooz is a global provider of news, analysis, commentary,... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
TLD Holdings Raises Over $33 Million, Names Tucows CEO To Board and Will Change...
Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) is a publicly traded company on the London AIM, the company came out with a press release today which details a lot of things... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Owns It Role in the Twitter @N Case – Paypal Does Not
Go Daddy admits that it was at fault in the @N case. Paypal denied any fault. ItWorld covered the story that has been going on for a few days with regards to... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 BUSINESS, TECH