NEUSTAR requested from ICANN the release of all reserved country and territory names for .NEUSTAR. I really don’t get how ICANN works sometimes. They first decided to reserve all country names for all New gTLDs …
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Minds + Machines Report: £2,924,000 Profit From gTLD Auctions, Has £20 Million Cash
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced its unaudited interim results for the 6 month period ended 30 June 2014. During the period, total sales in H1 2014 increased 4114% to £295,000 primarily as a result …
Read More »Minds + Machines Wins .VIP And .Law (It lost .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate, .video)
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced today that it has won the auctions for .law and for .vip. The Group has also gained in aggregate cash of approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million) from withdrawing its …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-22-2014): Youge.com $12,053, Huma.com $11,502, SkyFox.com $10,000
I noticed today that BrandBucket is selling domains at Flippa. Uzo.com is at $30,000 but reserve has not been met yet. I am still waiting for the .London priority program auctions to start. Or have …
Read More ».OOO Should Rename It’s New gTLD To .LOL
“Over the next 6-12 months we expect to get about 1-2 million domain registrations under .ooo”. All I can say is: lol. Maybe they should rename their New gTLD from .ooo to .lol. They will …
Read More »Next New gTLD Program Probably Coming in Late 2016 or 2017
ICANN published a draft Work Plan to describe the set of community reviews and activities underway and planned to support consideration of an additional application process for the next round of generic top-level domain (gTLD) …
Read More ».Scot Launched Today – Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram Bought Domains
Scotland’s own domain .scot went live from 2pm (GMT+1) today (September 23) giving Scots, businesses and relevant parties the chance to own their own Scottish part of the internet. It puts Scotland on parity with …
Read More »What Areas Of London Registered The Most .London Domain Names?
1&1 and Fasthosts registrars have produced an interesting heatmap of successful .London registrations and found that the City of Westminster, is the no.1 London borough for successful .London domain registrations (14 per cent). Home to …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-21-2014): WebIm.com $20,050, GoodWife.com $3,256
WebIm.com was sold for $20,050 at DropCatch. Whois just updated and someone from China is the new owner. It was once before auctioned for $4,494 on the 13th of September but it wasn’t paid for. …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Review: .Scot, .Deals, .Beer, .Surf, .Direct, .Place
This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 4 enter the landrush phase. .Scot, under the shadow of the 55% ‘NO’ poll vote, is launching …
Read More »Sedo and .Club at DMEXCO 2014 (video)
The .CLUB team joined the SEDO team at the huge DMEXCO conference in Cologne, Germany to introduce new domain names to leading digital marketers and brands from all over Europe. .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass had …
Read More »CentralNic Invests $1.62 Million In .Tickets New Top-Level Domain
CentralNic plc, “the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names”, today announced that further to the announcement on 18 September 2014, the Group is investing US$ 1.62 million in Accent …
Read More »Flippa Latest Sales: Babes.net $14,100, ClickThis.com $2,050
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Babes.net that was sold for $14,100. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 7 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-20-2014): 88bet.com $4,500, lally.com $2,466, PrivateOffers.com $1,500
I have a fever and a case of “too many lost Go Daddy auctions” today. I tried 3 domains and lost all 3 auctions. I guess my bidding was too sensible for Go Daddy. Well …
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