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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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How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To Pregister A Ne...
With Godaddy taking paid preregistrations on four new gTLD’s today, .Luxury, .Build, .Menu and .Uno, your chances of selling your premium domain name may... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014
In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention, ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Demand Reports: Media Business Negatively Impacted by Declines in Search Referra...
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), reported its earnings after the market closed today. Demand’s earnings were in line with estimates, but revenue was above estimates. Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Owner Of CarCovers.com Claims They Bought The Domain For Over $310,000 In 2012
According to a press release out today the owners of CarCovers.com claim they paid an amount for the domain name in 2012 which would have placed it the top 10... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Queensland, Australia, Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name...
Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, represented by McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Australia has been found GUILTY of Reverse Domain Name... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
KK.com Sells For $2.4 Million Dollars In A Deal Brokered By Moniker.com/SnapNames
The domain name KK.com just sold for $2.4 Million Dollars. The news was posted on the company’s Facebook pages “Congratulations to the Moniker & SnapNames... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD Program Committe Denies 3 Reconsideration Request But Punts On .Amazon
The New gTLD Program Committee (NPGC) of ICANN denied several requests for reconsideration in its latest meeting of which the minutes published last night,... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For New...
Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD’s this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Trademark Holder Lets Its Domain Drop & UDRP Says They Can’t Have It Back
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. lost its attempt to grab the domain name valiant-ent.tv which was registered on August 18, 2013. Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
United Parcel Service Wins UDRP On The Domain Driveups.com
United Parcel Service of America Inc. just won a UDRP on the the Domain Name Driveups.com UPS asserted that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donuts 1st 7 New gTLD’s Will Not Have a Landrush Period But Go After Sunrise To...
Donuts Inc., today announced that the “Sunrise” period for the first seven new gTLD names, the window during which trademark rights holders have exclusive... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We Are Building An Entire Shopping Mall
Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Cam Objection Fall Out: Demand Media Compains About Panels Reaching Different...
Another day and another applicant is complaining a new gTLD Dispute Resolution panels. Today its Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) complaining to Cherine Chalaby, Chair... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marchex’s Archeo Division Sells 81 Domains For $1.9 Million; Ave Price $23,500
Marchex report earnings today after the market closed and its Archeo unit which operates the domain name portfolio of Marchex sold a total of 81 domain names fo... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD Program Committee Accepts GAC Advice On Cat 1 & 2 Beijing Communiqué...
In a letter sent to Heather Dryden , Chair, Governmental Advisory Committee by the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) , they are intending to accept the GAC’s... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Sport Fallout: 12 Applicants Call On ICANN To Add An Appeals Proceess For...
The fallout from the .Sport objection continues as 12 new gTLD applicants sent a letter to ICANN today signed “expressing our ever-growing concerns relating... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Demand Media’s Domain Services Spinoff Is Rightside.co & Names Taryn Naidu As CEO
Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), that it has selected the name Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”) for the spun off domain services business. The company is... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
How Much Is A Category Killer Domain Worth? CarLoans.com.au Generates $40 Millio...
smartcompany.com.au, just published a success story that all domainers can use as the poster child for potential buyers of great domain names. Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
NameJet.com Releases $386,000 In Domain Sales For October
NameJet.com released its reportable domain name sales for October totaling over $386,000. Only sales of $2,000 or more were included. We were the 2nd high... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
With New gTLD’s Coming To Market .TO Rebrands Itself To Represent Toronto
.To has become the second country code (ccTLD) to rebrand itself to represent a city. Following on the succesful rebranding of .La which is the ccTLD for Laos... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2013 BUSINESS, TECH