An article called “British businesses fall victim to ‘cybersquatters’ amid domain name rollout” was posted on telegraph.co.uk. Although the article has some useful information it seems that on a few points it’s a bit off. …
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Correction: Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Spokes.com $40.000, RateWorld.com $20.000 (1-27-14 to 2-2-14)
Yesterday, while posting the Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales, I noticed that some domains from last week were reported once again in this week. I contacted Afternic and they confirmed it. Some of the domain …
Read More »Donuts.co’s VP Mason Cole: “we’re not really competing with .com”
Mason Cole, Donuts.co’s VP of Communications and Industry Relations, gave an interview on Vice.com. At the end of his interview he talked about new gTLD popularity and how it compares to the success of .com: …
Read More »Verisign 2013 Report: 10% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth, 127.2 million .com/.net (5% increase)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2013 and year ended Dec. 31, 2013. Verisign Registry Services added 1.29 million net new names …
Read More »Above.com adds new functionality to DomainState.com forum
Above.com, owner of popular domain name forum DomainState.com, announced a few updates on the forum including 3 new domain tools, Domain Directory Listings, Themed Domain Auctions, etc. The new domain tools that were added are: …
Read More »Rightside Registry Partners with More Than 40 Registrars: GoDaddy, Web.com, 1&1 and HostEurope
Rightside™, the domain name services business of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), today announced new partnerships with many of the world’s leading registrars to bring its portfolio of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) to market. More than 40 …
Read More »7 new gTLD domains sold for $12,540 a piece at GoDaddy: nature.photography, color.photography
Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. 7 new gTLD domains sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the past 24 hours and all of them were …
Read More »Domain Name BitcoinWallet.com Sold for $250,000 – BitcoinWallets.com Sale for $200,000 Pending
The domain name BitcoinWallet.com was sold for $250,000 while the domain name BitcoinWallets.com is pending sale for $200,000. Entrepreneur Niko Younts is the seller for both domains and made the announcement at his Twitter account: …
Read More »This is what many end-users buy at new gTLDs: alotof.crap
I know everyone says that new gTLDs bring more choice to the end users but it seems to me that end-users need to learn a lot more about domain names in general before jumping on …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Crafting.com $51.500, Spokes.com $40.000 (1-27-14 to 2-2-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 1-27-14 to 2-2-14 were $1.954.130 . It seems that some domains from last week were reported once again in …
Read More »19,000 new gTLD domain names registered in the first hours of general availability – .guru is the winner
The real (no EAP) general availability started today for 7 new gTLDs offered by Donuts.co: .holdings, .ventures, .singles, .plumbing, .bike, .guru, .clothing About 19,000 new gTLD domain names were registered in the first few hours …
Read More »Sedo sells CornerstoneHomes.com for $150,000 USD
Sedo just announced today the sale of the domain name CornerstoneHomes.com for $150,000 USD. The domain CornerstoneHomes.com was registered in 1996. Two construction companies with similar names, one from Florida and one from Washington state, …
Read More »Sunrise results from the 2nd batch of new gTLDs from Donuts
I checked out the zone files from the 7 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability (Early Access Program (EAP) for the first week) and here are the results. I must say …
Read More »UDRP complaint for StableTable.com denied after failed negotiations (civil action against Complainant pending)
A one member panel at WIPO denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name StableTable.com today. The Complainant was Hedera AB of Lund, Sweden, represented by Advokatbyrån Gulliksson AB, Sweden. The Respondent was Support Desk, …
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