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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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If Your In Contention For a New gTLD Your Draw Number Is Only As Good As The...
As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets To Become the New Orleans Pelicans & A Cover Band...
According to an ESPN report the New Orleans Hornets are going to become the New Orleans Pelicans, meaning that someone just won the domain name lottery with... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2012 BASKETBALL, BUSINESS, SPORTS -
Registration For Domaining Spain 2013 Is Now Opened: Here’s How You Can Save...
The 2nd Domaining Spain conference is going to be held from April 25-27, 2013 in Valencia, Spain and follows on the heels of what was a very well received... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Afternic.com Sells $1.15MM In Domains Led By Snipes.com For $50K
Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,146,186 for the week ending December 2nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Did Another Domain Parking Company Just Buy Internet-Traffic.com For $1K? Fair O...
I just noticed an interesting domain name cross the Sedo.com sales wire today. The domain name is Internet-Traffic.com which is identical to Frank... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Info Premium Auction Under Way On Godaddy.com
A premium 10 day .info domain name auction just got underway at Godaddy.com All of the domains start at $100 bidding and include some nice one word .info domain... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Which Would You Rather Have, A Left of The Dot .Christmas Sub Domains Or A...
Yesterday Left of the Dot, the company that took over management of Christmas.com in October, rolled out free sub-domains called Christmas Family Pages. Read more
Posted on 04 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Goldman Sachs Downgrades Demand Media Citing Google
Goldman Sachs just downgraded Demand Media Inc ((NYSE: DMD) from Neutral to Sell and cut its price target from $12 to $9. Goldman Sachs commented,: “Demand Medi... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Over 1 Million Submissions, Enom Releases The 5 Most Requested New gTLD...
eNom, Inc., a top 5 ICANN accredited registrar, has been taking “expressions of interest” in new gTLD domain names from consumers since June. eNom has received... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Parody Site ChickFilaFoundation.com Wins UDRP Challenge By Chick-fil-A
A one person UDRP panel just rejected the complaint of the national fast food company Chick-fil-A, on the domain name chickfilafoundation.com. Read more
Posted on 03 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Leading Integrated Brand Agency Digitas Confirmed to Speak at Digital Marketing ...
According to a press release we just received, “The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress today announced Carl Fremont, Executive Vice President, Globa... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
SearchEngineJournal.com: 17 Ways To Get De-indexed by Google
SearchEngineJournal.com just published a post entitled “17 Ways to Get De-indexed by Google” Here are some of the 17 ways, but you should check out the post... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
easyDNS Releases “Hot Swappable Proactive Nameservers” Guaranteeing 100% Uptime
easyDNS Technologies Inc. announced today “Hot Swappable Nameservers” under the solution they call Proactive Nameservers, “the world’s first name server... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Programs.com At $68K & PriceMatch.com Is At $21K At NameJet.com: Will Either...
A couple of interesting domain name auctions over at NameJet.com Programs.com has a high bid of $65,100. The domain has not hit the reserve yet. The domain... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
On Eve Of Start of The ITU Meeting In Dubai, The US Makes Issues A Statement In...
The ITU meeting gets underway in Dubai tomorrow and the United States has issued the following statement in support of the ICANN multistakeholder holder model o... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Opens Up Comment Period On “Strawman” Rights Protections For New gTLD’s
ICANN just opened up the comment period on a the IPC/BC proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs [PDF, 68 KB]. Read more
Posted on 01 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
UPDATED: Mike Mann Just Saved Almost $2 Million Dollars With Verisign’s No Rate...
(George Kirikos just pointed out that I did not take into account the compouding of the Verisign rate increase and he is correct so I have correct the math and... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mike Mann Just Saved Over $800,000 With Verisign’s No Rate Increase .Com Contract
Mike Mann owns around 330,000 domain names. Based on Verisign’s contract renewal to operate the .Com registry over the next six years, without being able to... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign: If New gTLD’s Are Successful We Might Be Able To Lift All Price Caps O...
Coming out of the Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) conference call this morning announcing that the contract to operate the .com contract had been renewed for six... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign: .Com Contract Renewed For 6 Years With NO Automatic Price Increases
In what domain holder have to consider a victory, Verisign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) was granted an six year renewal of the .Com registry but losses the ability... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH
