An Education Advisory Committee recommended that Kids.us should remain suspended. The Kids.us Education Advisory Committee was convened in April 2014 to consider the ongoing suspension of the kids.us third-level namespace, as well as to contemplate future …
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Dynadot Starts Offering Real Domain Name Whois Privacy
Dynadot is one of my favorite registrars and the only problem I was having is that it didn’t offer real domain name whois privacy. They would hide the email address, phone number and address but …
Read More »ICANN Targeted in Spear Phishing Attack
ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into their systems. We believe a “spear phishing” attack was initiated in late November 2014. It involved email messages that were crafted to appear to come from our own …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-15-2014): Jsmcc.com $5,605, Dorf.com $3,221, Hepatitis.net $3,180
Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%). I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is my …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Dentist, .Rehab, .Brussels, .WhosWho
This week no New gTLD enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 3 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs entering EAP on the 17th of December: …
Read More »Sedo Sells 458 Domains For $1 Million: RestaurantUniforms.com $20k, etfs.de 11,900 EUR, Joins.net 3,500 EUR
In the past week 458 (509 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.3m last week). Only 150 (143 last week) domains from the 458 were reported by Sedo. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-14-2014): Gustazo.com $4,650, WhatIsForex.com $2,275
Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%). This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 …
Read More »Flippa Weekly Domain Sales: HackerMagazine.com $6,000, DroneVideo.com $2,650
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name HackerMagazine.com that was sold for $6,000. There is a lot of hacking going on! Last week Hacked.com sold for $50,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of …
Read More ».NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%)
This is a follow up to my 1st .NYC report because now .nyc zone is more representative and reflects the true registration patterns of people of New York. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought …
Read More »One Degree World Will Launch More Than 1,300 Travel Websites On New gTLD Domain Names
One Degree World plans to launch more than 1,300 new travel related websites on New gTLD domain names. A few days back I wrote how global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched their …
Read More »Namejet Sells 61 Domains For $236k: Meixi.com $27,108, Sigi.com $8,788, Atlantico.com $7,599
Namejet released it’s November 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 61 (67 last month) domains for $235,705 ($503,394 last month). I was hoping for the report to include the .nyc auction sales but that …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-13-2014): AomenYinhe.com $11,938, 12328.com $4,068
You should watch Rick Schwartz’s last DomainSherpa show of his career. 🙁 This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-12-2014): TheTravelCompany.com 5,000 GBP, ExtraSmall.com $3,600
You should watch Rick Schwartz’s last DomainSherpa show of his career. 🙁 This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is …
Read More »Rick Schwartz’s last DomainSherpa show of his career. :(
Last month Rick Schwartz, aka the Domain King, announced on his LinkedIn page that he is retiring. Yesterday, I went to watch the latest DomainSherpa show only to see this sad news in the description …
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