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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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HIGH Movements Of 2 Letter .com Domains, Including FF.com And More Sold?
2 letter .com domain names are valuable, well exceeding $550,000 minimum wholesale value currently and I have detected at least 7 domain names that hold... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Godaddy Wins 5 Year Case Against The Oscars (Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
According to Variety.com, A federal judge ruled that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences (AMPAS) which owns and broadcast the The Oscars award failed... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Wins Court Case Most Thought They Would Lose
We have been tracking the battle between the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a few years now. It was looking like Go Daddy was going to lose a... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Namepros Live Auction is Back for the First Time in Years and It’s for a Good...
Namepros will be conducting a live auction this upcoming Monday to help fellow domain investor Rami Steitieh and his efforts to get the necessary treatment for... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For up T...
Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Over 200 LLLL.com Low Priced Domains Are in the 4.CN/ROTD Auction Closing...
The RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction starts to close tomorrow morning Thursday September 10, at 8AM EST or 8PM Hong Kong time, over a staggered 4 hour time... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domain Movers: Tilt.com , Heals.com , E3.com, Miller.com + More Domains
In today's corporate domain movers series we see Microsoft acquiring the domain name ProgramByExample.com. Two new startups acquired great domain names and thos... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million Led by SGJ.com at $31,500
Over the past week, 647 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Namejet Publishes Almost $400K In Domain Sales In August
Namejet.com issued its reportable sales for August totaling $393,859. Only those domain names that sold and were paid for by the end of August 2015 are... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign: Trump & Alphabet Both Make Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net In...
The words Bank, Local, Experts, Trump, Scope. Alphabet, Fantasy, Tomorrow, Method and Teeth were the top trending keywords registered in .Com in August accordin... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A Domain It...
In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch Davis, LLP, just got... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Down The Stretch We Come as the ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes...
The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 305 domain names with bids as of publication, including... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
CSC September New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot
The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. Read more
Posted on 08 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Breaking: Rick Schwartz Sells a NNN.com Domain Putting Him 2nd on The YTD Sales...
Rick Schwartz wrote to me today to tell me he sold an NNN.com domain name for an amount which will land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015 per... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tuft & Needle Mattress Startup Buy Premium Domain Name TN.com
On the morning of September 4, 2015 I had a pretty good hunch that the premium 2 letter domain name TN.com likely sold and now we have confirmation that it did... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Unlock.me with a $20,000 Bid On Go Daddy Auctions
The public auction closes today for Unlock.me, the name received a $20,000 bid and is closing on Sunday. The domain was registered back in 2008 and is owned by... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Registers Alphabet.Sex in Sunrise: How Did They Do That? + More...
Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Star Wars First Assault Game Back In The Works? Domain Reg Hints At It
Star Wars First Assault Game was canceled in 2013 when LucasArts was acquired by The Walt Disney Company but a new domain name registration may be hinting that... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Club Publishes August Domain Results, Over $1 Million Cumulative Sales
.Club registry has released August 2015 domain name results and cumulative sales of registry reserved domain name sales have surpassed the $1 Million mark!... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
This Weeks New gTLD Totals: Amsterdam 12,681; .FYI 1,159; .MBA 701; .Fans 653
4 new gTLD extensions launched this week into General Availability (GA) where the could be registered into a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including domain names... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
