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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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Who Doesn’t Suck? Kim Kardashian; Justin Bieber; Twitter, FoxNews, CNN Pass On...
While some of the biggest brands in Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 new gTLD’s in the new . Read more
Posted on 21 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Big Misses? There is No Comcast.sucks; KimKardashian.sucks; JustinBieber.sucks;...
While some of the biggest brands in Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 .sucks domain names in the Sunrise period... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise
The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium . Read more
Posted on 21 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn
Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. Read more
Posted on 20 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a...
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Architelos Releases Its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst...
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into G...
fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex Allows Its Most Popular Site...
American Express acquired Sometrics for $30 million and the most popular site, GameCoins.com has been allowed to expire and dropped by the company. Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells at Sedo
The two letter .com domain name We.com has been sold at Sedo. Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn...
Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 week... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps
Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before “Rightside spent... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domain Movers: Strawberry.com, XboxMusic.com and More Domains
Domain Movers detects recently acquired and registered domain names by many large companies like Pfizer Inc., Microsoft, Marvel, Time Inc. and many more. Stop i... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Seller of Dot Money Name for $90,000 Once Walked Away from The Apprentice UK TV...
Elliot Silver broke the news about a $90,000 .money sale. The seller Adam Freeman from Essex, was slated to be a contestant on the British version of The... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Selling For $750K In 2010, Ringtones.com Sells For $105K On Namejet.com
The domain name Ringtones.com just sold on Namejet.com for $105,000. The reserve price seemed to be $100,000. In all there were 218 bidders and the bidder with... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
How Whoosh Inc. Bought Whoosh.com from Directv
I noticed Whoosh.com changed ownership very recently and I reached out to the buyers Whoosh Inc. and interviewed them on how they bought the domain name... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mike Mann Sells Fun.co For $70,000
Mike Mann announced that his DomainMarket.com sold the domain Fun.co for $70,000 The domain name was “purchased a while back” according to Mike Mann. This .co... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Panel Rejects Fashion Television’s Attempt To Grab Fashion.tv
Fashion Television International Limited has lost it’s attempt to grab the domain name Fashiontv.com in a UDRP basically letting a pending court case in Munich... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong at $2.2million Led by NKB.com
Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
AT & T Researchers Look at Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation
Two researchers from AT T, Wei Wang and Kenneth E. Shirley had a domain related paper published on the Cornell University website ArXiv.org. Read more
Posted on 16 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD
On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
