Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name VisitRome.com that was sold by Eric Borgos for $16,000. The domain Yabai.com was sold for $11,100 with a $1 Reserve Auction. Post-Auction Negotiation was the …
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Daily Domain Sales (9-11-2014): idai.com $31,500, StreamCast.com $6,553
Go Daddy sold netpets.org for $7,875? Have people lost their minds? How much traffic do they think this will have? The domain was owned by NetPets, Inc. from California that let it expire. Netpets.com is …
Read More »Online Tool To Help Non-Chinese Speakers Invest In Chinese Domains (videos)
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has created a tool available at ChineseLandrush.com to help non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, visitors …
Read More »Auctions For .BUY, .TECH and .VIP Contentions Are Held Next Week
ICANN, through its auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, will facilitate an Auction on 17 September 2014 to resolve string contention sets for three (3) new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings, BUY, TECH, and VIP. …
Read More »Go Daddy Enters The Indian Domain Name Market
Business Standard did a piece on Go Daddy’s attempt to enter the Indian domain name market. India is a priority market for GoDaddy and even though India currently has only 3.5 million domain names currently, …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-10-2014): 5198.com $20k, FamilyBox.com $10k, Yabai.com $11,100
I am tired of saying the same thing over and over again. These constant, not advertised auctions in reseller auction houses with end user reserves will almost never bring the prices you hope for. There …
Read More »Did Apple Pull A Negari Move With The Latest U2 Album?
Tech Crunch did a piece today criticizing Apple for uploading the latest U2 album to all iTunes users. Did Apple hire the same marketing firm that Daniel Negari is using for .XYZ? Is Tim Cook …
Read More »Spain.info – This Is How A .Info Domain Name Is Properly Used And Promoted
While Fiba, the International Basketball Federation, is busy promoting the official and quite long official website of the world cup, www.fiba.com/spain2014, another domain name is dominant in the games: Spain.info. The Basketball World Cup in …
Read More »DailyDomains.com – New Domain Newsletter With 5 Domains Per Day
I got an email today from Adam Dicker informing me about a new domain newsletter: DailyDomains.com. The email was addressed to all dnforum.com members. The newsletter was founded by Jacob Fedosky. “They are putting an …
Read More »ICANN Grants Data Retention Waiver To 5 German Registrars And Moniker
ICANN granted data retention waivers to 5 German registrars and Moniker that is US based but is owned by the European group KeyDrive S.A.: Key-Systems, LLC Key-Systems, GmbH InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG http.net Internet …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .London 35056, .Global 1630, .Yokohama 953, .Digital 2638
Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: .Global and .Yokohama entered general availability on the 9th of September. Both were flops. .Global reached 1,630 registrations and .yokohama had …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-9-2014): auq.com $10,100, vpj.com $8,006
A lot of domain name related news are coming out in the past few days. Everybody is back from their vacations and New gTLDs are launching daily. .London did worse than expected by a lot …
Read More »Did I Strike Gold With The Domain FieldEmissionDisplay.com Back in 2005? NO!
I read on DotWeekly.com a couple of days ago that Microsoft registered the domain name FED.tv for a new “Field Emission Display TV?”. Then I remembered reading an article on Wired about up and coming …
Read More »What Domains Did Apple Buy Yesterday? What 85 Domains Apple Missed And Are Now Parked?
Apple held it’s 2014 live event yesterday at California were it announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus together with Apple Watch and Apple Pay. I did a search on what domains Apple registered yesterday, what time did …
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