Namejet released it’s May 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 76 (84 last month) domains for $555,842 ($463,758 last month) in May. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I …
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New gTLD Domain Sales: Jobboerse.Berlin €8,000, 5 sold for $3,000+ and 10 for $1,200+ (miami.condos)
There were 15 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .condos, .properties, .tienda, and .maison for a total of about $27,000 or more including the premium domains. Sedo sold the domain name …
Read More »Flippa: “You Can Now Negotiate on ANY Unsold Auction”
Flippa announced a change to the the way Flippa works. As of today, you can negotiate with a seller to buy anything that was listed for auction that didn’t find a buyer. Previously, when an auction …
Read More »Radix Announces .Host Timeline and Pioneer Program With Premium Domains (web.host, cloud.host)
Radix, a new gTLD registry from Asia, announced the launch timeline for .host, starting with the opening of their Pioneer Program which starts today. The Sunrise phase will start June 24 and last for 60 days. …
Read More »“I Do Not Choose To Make An Offer Today.”
I have had my fair share of Go Daddy “Domain Buy Service” offers that cost $69.99 per domain, plus commission. And I also had a few Certified Offers through Network Solutions that cost $19 per …
Read More »Over 50,000 .UK registrations in 24 hours, including Sainsburys.uk, Bentley.uk and Burberry.uk
Within 24 hours of opening for registration, new, short .uk web domains topped the sales charts. More than 50,000 domains were registered, making this one of the fastest selling new domain releases on record, and …
Read More »Antony Van Couvering Interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos (video)
Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, filmed recently at …
Read More »Moniker’s CEO Bonnie Wittenburg Sends Message But No Timeline
Moniker’s migration to a new system has caused a lot of problems to all it’s users. Today Moniker’s CEO Bonnie Wittenburg sent a message but I don’t see how this is any help. It has …
Read More »Strange Go Daddy Support Response Regarding a Premium GLTD auction
I got a cryptic support response from Go Daddy today. The subject was “Premium GLTD auction – Correction”. I didn’t create the support ticket so I am not sure what this means: You may have …
Read More »Feedly is down following a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS)
Feedly, an RSS news aggregator, has been down for several hours today following a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). It appears that criminals are attacking feedly trying to extort money to make it stop. …
Read More »Stephen Fry 1st To Switch To StephenFry.uk From StephenFry.com
From yesterday, new, short .uk web domains are available alongside .co.uk for the first time ever, with British icon and tech enthusiast Stephen Fry the first person to make the switch. As one of the …
Read More »2014 – The Year Of Dishonesty
On Friday, Rick Schwartz featured an Interview with Daniel Negari that was supposed to address the free .xyz registrations that Network Solutions has been giving to some .com owners since the .xyz General Availability without …
Read More »The Official .CO Blog Has Been Hacked!
It appears that the official .CO Blog that is located at http://www.go.co/blog/ has been hacked. I visited the blog today only to find about 40 articles that have nonsense subjects such as “soeda96571” and the stories …
Read More ».Bid, .Trade, & .Webcam Get 506, 3,235 and 3,675 Registrations On Their 1st Day
Famous Four Media launched their first 3 New gTLDs yesterday: .BID, .TRADE, and .WEBCAM. Despite making an announcement of a $175,000 sale for 15 .webcam domain names before launch, the results from the first day …
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