This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 1 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 2 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs is launching: …
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Sedo Adds A Minimum Sales Commission Fee To Parked Domains
Starting October 21, 2014, Sedo added a 50 EUR/USD or 35 GBP minimum sales commission fee to all domains. Up until that time parked domains with Sedo didn’t have a minimum sales commission. Sedo actually says …
Read More »Radix, Tucows & Namecheap Won Auction For .Online Domains For More Than $10 Million
A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction, paying more than $10 million, to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. Each of Radix, Tucows and NameCheap will contribute …
Read More »Mayor’s Local Enterprise Partnership For London Adopts .London (lep.london)
The Mayor’s London Enterprise Panel (LEP), the local enterprise partnership for London, has become the first Mayoral body to adopt a Dot London web domain, as it launched its new website this week – lep.london. …
Read More »1 Million .CH Domains To Be Transfered From The .CH Registry To Registrars
The SWITCH foundation will stop selling .ch domain names as of the beginning of January 2015 and successively hand over the related client support to its business partners, the registrars. The basis for this change …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (11-08-2014): Psyllium.com $2,659, AdvancedMedicine.com $2,224
I think I am going to buy a 5-figure domain soon. 🙂 Moniker introduced some new security features but I can’t find them in my account and it is too late anyway. R.I.P. Moniker. Realtors …
Read More »TLD Registry Announces ChineseLandrush.com Version 3.1
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has made further improvements to their New gTLD tool located at ChineseLandrush.com that helps non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (11-07-2014): 6474.com $8,100, zakladysportowe.pl 5,000 EUR
I now have people that “like” my domains. Someone left a “like” comment on my domain name recordable.com. Who are these people? Moniker introduced some new security features but I can’t find them in my …
Read More »Flippa Weekly Domain Sales: Siamese.com $5,010, Collarbone.com $3,000, TokyoTourism.com $2,000
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Siamese.com that was sold for $5,010. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 11 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …
Read More »Sedo Sells 542 Domains For $1.4 Million: Pager.com $45k, Koffer.ch 17822 EUR, 6.biz $12,637
In the past week 542 (554 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 million ($1m last week). Only 160 (174 last week) domains from the 442 were reported by Sedo. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (11-06-2014): EasyBet.com 35,000 EUR, TheMotel.com $25,000
Moniker introduced some new security features but I can’t find them in my account and it is too late anyway. R.I.P. Moniker. Realtors are sharing their thoughts on the new .realtor extension. I won a …
Read More »“Why I don’t want to be a .realtor” & Comments From Realtors On The Extension
Teresa Boardman, a real estate broker, wrote a piece on inman.com on the New gTLD .realtor. I have been following the article for a week now and there are now over 50 comments from realtors. …
Read More »The .PORN & .ADULT Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Will Run From April 15th to May 15th 2015
Following the recent signing of the .PORN and .ADULT registry contracts and after a lengthy negotiation with ICANN, ICM Registry, the .XXX registry, provided today its launch dates for .PORN and .ADULT. Starting March 1, …
Read More »Moniker Adds New Security Features But It Is Too Little, Too Late
Moniker announced some new security features to help customers protect their domains from theft that was common practice there over the past couple of months. I say: “Too Little, Too Late”. Problems started with the …
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