Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update today on its top-level domain launches. Minds + Machines seems to be satisfied with the revenue from its 10 New gTLDs so far but not with the …
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ICANN 52 Meeting to Relocate to Singapore Because Of Ebola Fears
ICANN announced that community concerns about the Ebola virus that would prevent maximum participation at its next global meeting (ICANN 52, 8-12 February 2015), a critical one given the ongoing discussions around the IANA Stewardship …
Read More »DNS Workshop: ‘Building a Sustainable Domain Names Business in Africa and the Middle East’
ICANN joins the Africa Information and Communication Technologies Alliance (AfICTA) and Egypt’s National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in organizing a first of its kind two-day workshop on DNS Entrepreneurship. When: 4-5 November 2014 Where: Cairo …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (11-02-2014): Praga.com $6,901, Knowly.com $5,200, FB.pw $4,500
There were a lot of 4-letter domains at Go Daddy auctions today. Most went pretty cheap and most were sold for $32. Do these belong to someone that will renew them is a couple of …
Read More »ICANN Updates Zone File Access & Requires The Most Complicated Password Ever
Back in May 2014 I made a few suggestions to ICANN regarding the New gTLD zone file access. So when I got an email with the subject “About enhancements to CZDS” I was excited. The …
Read More »ICANN Sends Notice of Breach To Web Host & Registrar DreamHost
ICANN sent a notice of breach to popular web host and registrar DreamHost. ICANN notes that this is the 2nd notice of breach within four months for DreamHost for failure to investigate Whois inaccuracy complaints, and …
Read More ».NYC Surpasses .London In Domain Registrations & Is The Fastest Growing Extension
.NYC surpassed .London in domain name registrations according to ntldstats.com. .NYC is ranked 8th today with 48,671 domains compared with .London that ranks 9th with 48,479 domains. Actually .nyc is 3rd and .london is 4th …
Read More »ICANN Spends 3.3 Million USD Yearly On Expense Reimbursement and Other Payments to ICANN Directors
This is where your domain money is going. ICANN spent 2 million USD in the fiscal year 2014 on expense reimbursement and other payments to ICANN Directors plus 1.3 million of payments to the ICANN …
Read More »Sedo Sells 554 Domains For $1 Million: Angel.in $30k, 3DFashion.com $10k, Joy.club $10k
In the past week 554 (484 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.4m last week). Only 174 (150 last week) domains from the 454 were reported by Sedo. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (11-01-2014): 5924.com $4,705, EatingForLife.org $2,225
I discovered that one of my one-word .com domains went from 10 uniques per month to 300 uniques per month in just a few months. It is probably because of an app using a .mobi …
Read More »Flippa Weekly Domain Sales: Drones.net $17,500, SmallBusiness.loans $3,000
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Drones.net that was sold for $17,500. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-31-2014): Jott.com $42,500, OF.org $8,000 SpinClass.com $3,550
I am really angry because I post all these sales everyday and once in a while something like this happens and I don’t know what the f*ck is going on. I know that a lot …
Read More »iWire.com Winning Bidder For $7,777 Tries To Sell The Domain Before He Pays For It At Snapnames
The winning bidder of the iWire.com domain name is trying to sell the domain name before paying for it. The “buyer” won the domain in a Snapnames auction on the 19th of October for $7,777. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-30-2014): RealityShow.com $9,298, Siamese.com $5,010
I came across this article called “How to Dodge Domain Squatters”. It is written by someone that doesn’t really know a lot about domain names. Here is a peak at what I do month after …
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