Yesterday 15th of July the .Wien new domain name extension entered general availability. Vienna (Wien in German) is the capital and largest city of Austria. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were …
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.Scot New gTLD Launched Today With 50 Pioneers (Government, NHS, Scouts in Scotland)
The new .scot top level internet domain launched today giving individuals and organisations the chance to express their pride in Scotland online. People can now, for the first time, choose to use a .scot web …
Read More »GCA.com Sells For $90,000 USD At Sedo
Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name gca.com for $90,000 USD. The buyer is not yet known as whois has not yet been updated and shows Sedo as the owner. The domain gca.com …
Read More »Not Social: 45% Of DotBrand New gTLD Applicants Are Not Using Social Media
SLAM Strategy, a digital strategy company from Adelaide Australia, published a social media report today that focused on DotBrand New gTLD applicants. The study focused on 647 brands that applied for ICANN gTLDs to look …
Read More »The Go Daddy Refunds For New gTLD EAP Domain Pre-Orders Are Still Having Trouble
I was doing some quarterly taxes and I found by accident that Go Daddy owes me some money once again. $150 this time. Do you remember how I found out that Go Daddy was owning …
Read More »Demand Media to Complete Tax-Free Spin-off of Rightside Group on August 1, 2014
Declares Record Date of July 25, 2014 and Share Distribution Date of August 1, 2014 Demand Media, Inc.® (NYSE: DMD) today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has declared the Rightside …
Read More »1st Day Domain Registration Numbers: .bar 1,226, .rest 307
Punto 2012 (using the CentralNic backend) launched 2 of it’s New gTLDs yesterday: .bar and .rest. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were ok for .bar, especially considering the $70 registration fee, …
Read More »Sedo Has A .Info Domain Auction (proposal.info, guess.info, collections.info)
Sedo is running a .INFO domain name auction in July. The new .INFO auction features 50 generic .INFO domains such as inbox.info and loyal.info that all owned by Sedo’s sister company DomCollect Worldwide Intellectual Property …
Read More »Escrow.com: 28 Minutes From Accepted Domain Transfer To Sending The Wire Transfer
I had a problem with an unresponsive buyer for a .us domain I recently sold. The domain was transferred to his registrar but the buyer went missing for 3 days. I contacted escrow.com and asked …
Read More »NylonMag.com Changes Domain Name To NYLON.com For $225,000
NYLON Media Inc. today debuted its new domain name, NYLON.com, changing its site domain from Nylonmag.com. “NYLON is a brand synonymous with ‘It Girl’ culture. Owning NYLON.com is the first step in a series of digital …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Review: .Bar, .Wien, .Media, .Pictures and .Moda
This week 8 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 14th of July, Punto 2012 (CentralNic) has 2 of it’s New gTLDs entering general availability: …
Read More ».REST and .BAR New gTLDs Now Available
.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” are launching simultaneously in order to create a space on the Internet specifically for the food and beverage industry. The domains …
Read More »Sedo Had Another 7-Figure Sale We Will Never Know
I am sure that this week Sedo had a 7-figure domain sale that was kept private. Usually Sedo has about a million worth of sales every week. Last week Sedo sold mm.com for $1.2m and …
Read More »Sedo sells 564 domains for $2.4 million: Satoshi.com $75k, autoankauf.de 36k Euro, english.club $17.5k
In the past week (June 30 to July 6), 564 (614 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4 million ($2.3m last week). Only 167 (162 last week) domains from …
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