Afternic announced that its distribution in Russian Federation has doubled to cover up to 85% of end-user demand for domain names. Newly launched partnerships with strategic registrars, including Reg.ru, Webnames.ru, and Imena.ua help bring high-quality …
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Sedo sells 513 domains worth $1 million: fun8.com $25k, Chinese.club $13,750 (Apr 14 to Apr 20)
In the past week (Apr 14 to Apr 20), 513 (620 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.3m last week). Only 153 (209 last week) domains from …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Trade360.com $42,500, JSA.COM $25k (4-13-14 to 4-20-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-13-14 to 4-20-14 were $1.982.736. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More »Beta Launch of the New ICANN WHOIS Lookup Tool
Five months ago, ICANN launched the new WHOIS website (whois.icann.org), a one-stop shop for questions and information about everything WHOIS, the Internet’s record system of domain registration data. This new portal was just the first …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Sales: Chinese.club $13750, Toys.club $12500, Hemp.farm $1200+
This past week the following 3 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .farm, .codes and .viajes. Also Sedo announced some .club domain name sales. Some of the sales are difficult to find as …
Read More ».Rich registry parks 16 domain names at Sedo (iam.rich, born.rich)
The .Rich registry, I-Registry Ltd., has registered 16 .rich domains to a sister company of theirs called i-content Ltd. All domains are parked at Sedo and are for sale. It seems that more registries are following …
Read More »More than 5% of newly registered domain names are being used for abuse
Architelos Inc. announced the publication of the third NameSentry NameSpace Quality Report. The report measures the comparative safety of the Internet’s largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) by measuring the concentration of spam, phishing, botnets, and malware in each …
Read More »Verisign Q1 2014 Report: 128.5 million .com and .net domains, 4% increase from Q1 2013
VeriSign, Inc., the global leader in domain names, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2014. First Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $249 million for the …
Read More »How I won the domain DNSHost.com 4 years after I backordered it…
This is how I backordered the domain name DNSHost.com on Namejet back in 2010 only to win an auction last week! Back in 2010 I sold the similar domain HostDNS.com on Sedo for 6000 Euro …
Read More »Tucows Live on SedoMLS Network
SedoMLS Network Now Bringing 17 Million Premium Domains to Third Largest Registrar’s Leading Reseller Channel. Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global providers of …
Read More »ICANN sends notice of breach to Namebay.com
Please be advised that as of 14 April 2014, Namebay SAM (“Namebay”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 23 September 2009 (“RAA”). These breaches result from: 1. Failure to take reasonable steps to investigate claimed Whois inaccuracies, as required by Section 3.7.8 of the RAA; 2. Failure to maintain registration records as required by Section 3.4.2 of the RAA; and 3. Failure to make registration records available upon request by ICANN, as required by Section 3.4.3 of the RAA. Please refer to the attachment for details regarding these breaches. In addition, Namebay has been deemed noncompliant in the following areas: 1. Failure to notify ICANN of a change to its contact information, as required by Section 5.11 of the RAA; 2. Failure to provide a
Read More »NameJet partners with Rightside Registry to auction 20 .DANCE premium domain names
NameJet partners with Rightside Registry to offer these 20 .DANCE premium domain names like music.dance and 1.dance. Each of the domains are priced with low reserves and will sell. The auction starts on the 16th …
Read More »General Availability Started Today: .agency, .bargains, .boutique, .cheap, .zone
Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .agency, .bargains, .boutique, .cheap and .zone .Agency seems to have some potential, .cheap is on the wrong side, boutique and .zone seems like …
Read More »Public Interest Registry Announces Sunrise Period For New Devanagari, Cyrillic and Chinese Domain Names
Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain – today launched the first registration phase, known as the Sunrise Period, for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Qualified domain trademark holders …
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