During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …
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.SE Auctions 349 Blocked Domains (no.se, tv.se, pr.se, it.se, usa.se)
Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE) will conduct multiple auctions to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se, …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-18-2014): VictoryPoker.com $3,551, DerrickRose.com $834
The domain name DerrickRose.com sold for $834 yesterday at Go Daddy auctions. Derrick Rose is one of my favorite NBA players. I went to a Chicago Bulls in February 2012 and because it was an …
Read More »Reports On ICANN 51 In Los Angeles
CENTR, the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries, has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. The report covers in detail the sessions held by …
Read More »Namejet Sells 80 Domains For $459k: idai.com $31,500, Souvenirs.com $16,250
Namejet released it’s September 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 80 (95 last month) domains for $459,621 ($743,969 last month). A few deals are in the list such as souvenirs.com for $16k. I am …
Read More »Sedo Sells 491 Domains For $1 Million: GoldPay.com 50,000 EUR, Stream.org $20,000
In the past week 491 (443 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.2m last week). Only 174 (160 last week) domains from the 491 were reported by Sedo. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-17-2014): Youge.com $13,388, T-V.com $4,900, EngineWorld.com $2,550
Youge.com was re-auctioned at Flippa because of non-payment and went for $13,388 this time. The strange thing was that is sold for more than the price it got last time: $12,538. Flippa had a great …
Read More »Flippa Latest Domain Sales: BestWine.com $5,000, Commuters.com $3,551
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name BestWine.com that was sold for $5,000. 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 »Daily Domain Sales (10-16-2014): LowCarb.com $45,000, Anonymity.com $13,433, Sadness.com $12,000
Flippa had some great sales yesterday with LowCarb.com leading sales with $45,000. New low by .xyz registry: Google Glass Used As Bait For Students To Get Free .XYZ Domains. Every time I say that I …
Read More »New Low: Google Glass Used As Bait For Students To Get Free .XYZ Domains
I didn’t want anything to do with these people even after I saw those photos of these ridiculous purple men at ICANN 51 in Los Angeles promoting the worst of the worst in New gTLDs. …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Okinawa 640, Google’s .Soy 182
Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 2 New gTLD launches: .Okinawa entered general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is located in the southernmost of Japan. The purpose of …
Read More »Google Q3 2014 Results: Revenue Up 20%, Paid Clicks Up 17%, Cost-Per-Click Down
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. “Google had another strong performance this quarter, with revenue up 20% year on year, at $16.5 billion,” said Patrick Pichette, …
Read More »Afnic 2013 Report: 13.7 Million Euros Turnover, 2.7 Million Domains, 8.2% Growth For .FR
The Afnic annual report sheds new light on major events that have marked the development of the Association in 2013: The consolidation of the French legal framework for domain names, the growth of the .fr …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (10-15-2014): RGM.com $35,299, 0199.com 12,000 EUR
Everybody, except people stuck in the 90s, know that Network Solutions is a very bad and expensive registrar. Their support is non-existent and condescending. The latest problem I am having is that Network Solutions does …
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