The Pirate Bay moves again and again looking for a permanent domain name. Yesterday once again it left Guyana and thepiratebay.gy and returned to Sweden and the domain ThePirateBay.se. This is the fourth time it …
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Auction reserves are a bit tricky: Shane takes a small hit at Namejet…
I was out eating steaks and drinking red wine yesterday and when I came back home I had a look at my auction history at Namejet. I saw that the domain cupcakes.info had been sold …
Read More »Flippa Top Website and Domain Name Sales in 2013: Remix.com sold for $142,500, .info domains go strong
These are the 2013 top sales that Flippa announced today. The data is collected from 1 January 2013 to 11 November 2013. Flippa also introduced an “Enhanced Domain Search” featuring filtering domains by character limit, …
Read More »ccTLD Registrations: CENTR members grow 2.3% compared with 1.8% for gTLDs globally
CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter for December 2013. CENTR is the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries such as .uk in the United Kingdom and .es in Spain. CENTR has 52 …
Read More »The Pirate Bay leaves Peru for Guyana and the domain name ThePirateBay.gy
The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved again to a new domain name: thepiratebay.gy. This is the third time it changes domain names in just a few days. It had moved to …
Read More »Greenpeace.info – My domain name donation is still on hold after 9 years
Back in December 2004, 9 years back, I got the domain name Greenpeace.info using a Go Daddy backorder so I could donate it to the Greenpeace organization. A week after I got it I send …
Read More »DomainNameSales.com coming in 2014: marketplace changes, increased parking payouts
Frank Schilling, owner of the popular Domain Name Sales platform, published his newsletter about the upcoming new year. He said that domain sales were robust in 2013 and the DomainNameSales.com secondary marketplace sales far and away …
Read More »Sedo brokers sale of Jobs.ca for $450,000
Today, Sedo’s broker Dave Evanson brokered Jobs.ca for $450,000. Congratulations to the seller and the buyer! The domain was registered in 2000. The domain Jobs.ca still features a developed website that promises to match people …
Read More »Namejet – Snapnames: 2 auction cancellations – 2 different approaches
In the past few days I learned that 2 domain name auctions that I had won were cancelled. And this was not the usual Go Daddy cancelled auction we all know and love. One was …
Read More »ICANN opens new comment period for New gTLD Auction Rules
ICANN opened today a comment period for New gTLD Auction Rules. The purpose is to gather community input regarding the detailed rules and processes for Auctions to resolve string contention sets in the New gTLD …
Read More »ICANN sends notice of breach to NameJuice.com responsible for the “Domain Registry of America” scam
Registrar NameJuice.com (“Brandon Gray”) has been behind the “Domain Registry of America” (DRoA) or “Domain Renewal Group” scam that sends domain name expiration letters all over the world asking for domain name renewals at the price …
Read More »Prince Charles gets PrinceOfWales.UK while Nominet also delegates royal.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk
Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Supreme Court of the …
Read More ».eu Q3 report by EURid registry: registrations are stable, Germany is still #1
During Q3 2013, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 3 051 domain names, a net decrease of -0.1%, to 3.70 million. The total number of .eu domain name registered at the end of Q3 …
Read More »ICANN and the CTU to Increase Active Engagement with Caribbean Stakeholders
In the context of the recent Caribbean ICT Week, Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO, and Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase cooperation and …
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