In Go Daddy’s 2013 Super Bowl commercial at yourbigidea.co, Go Daddy urges everybody to seize their big idea and register a .co domain name. Go Daddy’s tagline is “What’s your big idea?“ But this commercial …
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Karim Jiwani leaves RegistryPro, the .PRO registry and Afilias subsidiary
Karim Jiwani left RegistryPro to pursue new industry opportunities. Today, Afilias Limited announced the resignation of Karim Jiwani, who formerly ran RegistryPro, the .PRO registry and Afilias subsidiary. Under his tenure, the .PRO business doubled, …
Read More »Is Snapnames getting desperate?
On November Snapnames started making charges for “catching” unregistered domains for a $69 fee. The result was that a lot of Snapnames customers were charged for forgotten domains in their accounts with one user being …
Read More »Go Daddy 2nd 2013 Super Bowl Commercial Featuring Danica Patrick, Bar Refaeli and Geek
Yesterday Go Daddy’s 2nd 2013 Super Bowl commercial came out featuring auto racing driver Danica Patrick introducing model Bar Refaeli and a geek named Walter played by Jesse Heiman. The commercial is named “Perfect Match” …
Read More »January 2012 Go Daddy Auctions Report – BusinessLoan.com sold for $70k and DiscountLoans.com sold for $39k
Go Daddy sold 35,156 domains in January. That is almost a 5% increase from December’s 33,446 domains. 52% (55% in December) of the sales were from auctions, 46% (43% in December) of the sales were from Buy …
Read More »New gTLDs Trending High on HEXONET – .web and .berlin take top spots
ICANN accredited registrar HEXONET released the latest news about it’s New gTLDs pre registrations. Some gTLD applicants are already accepting pre-registrations and HEXONET is using an “Expression of Interest”(EOI) service, to allow users to preregister …
Read More »Google gets GoogleGlass.com without a UDRP decision
Yesterday I wrote about how Google won a UDRP Complaint at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name GlassGoogle.com. Google had an easy UDRP win as the Respondent failed to submit a Response in …
Read More »UDRP DISGRACE: Mclaren.net transferred while complaint for Mclaren.biz is naturally denied
Complainant McLaren Health Care Corporation got a trademark registration for the mark “mclaren” on October 16, 2012 so they thought it would be a good idea to file UDRP complaints for every domain name incorporating …
Read More ».bank and .insurance gTLD applicant asks for an extension to the objection filing deadline
Craig Schwartz that is the Director of fTLD Registry Services, LLC sent a letter to Ms. Christine Willett, General Manager of the New gTLD Program at ICANN asking for an extension to the objection filing …
Read More »DomainTools starts offering Domain Report in PDF format for $49
Domain Tools starts offering a Domain Report in PDF format for an introductory price of $49. Domain Report is simple to use: enter a domain name and Domain Tools will gather nearly everything they know about …
Read More »Domain Enterprises.biz lost in UDRP while parked at Internet Traffic
Complainant Enterprise Holdings, Inc. submitted a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on December 10, 2012 for the domain name Enterprises.biz. Enterprise Holdings, Inc. from St. Louis, MO, USA, is the owner of the ENTERPRISE …
Read More »Sedo auctions domains from the DSB Bank: museum.eu, financing.eu etc.
Sedo is auctioning off the domain portfolio from the DSB Bank N.V’s legacy. Sedo announced today that are going to be 3 special auctions that are taking place at Sedo in partnership with the bankruptcy …
Read More »BIN.net didn’t sell at NameJet – Reserve was not met
The domain name BIN.net didn’t sell at NameJet. Highest bid was $3,500 USD but ironically the reserve price wasn’t met. BIN is used as an acronym for a “Buy It Now” price which in this case …
Read More »Sedo sells 715 domains worth $1.42 million: SalleDeBain.com sells at 60k USD and Connect.tv at 25k USD – Week 22/1-28/1 2013
This week, 715 transactions (1076 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.42 million ($1.60 last week). Only 235 domains (241 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …
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