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I am starting 2013 with some hope that things will be better than the past 2 years. 2011 and 2012 were pretty rough years on my family. These were the 2 worst years of my …
Read More »2012 Best Buyer Award – The Overpaying Buyer
I have setup my own sales landers for about 5000 of my domain names. (more on this at a forthcoming article) I did that a couple of months back when I started leaving Sedo. At …
Read More »pack.org is now in a private Namejet auction after the winning bidder failed to pay
I just got an email from Namejet informing me that I entered a private auction for the domain name pack.org. The domain dropped on the 28th of November and it was caught by Namejet. The …
Read More »Helion.com gets hit with a UDRP a month after it was sold at Snapnames for $9,445 – The complaint was denied at NAF
Helion.com got a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum a month after it was sold at Snapnames for $9,445. The domain was caught by Snapnames on the 7th of October 2012 and the auction …
Read More »UDRP complaint for EuroBaby.com denied at WIPO – John Berryhill doesn’t ask for RDNH
This could have been a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) case but it seems that John Berryhill didn’t ask for a RDNH finding. He might have thought that the two pending CTM applications that were …
Read More »Bloomberg reports website outage of NYC online grocer after domain renewal failed
Bloomberg reported today that Fresh Direct that is an online grocer that operates in New York City and surrounding areas, had a website outage after failing to renew its domain name FreshDirect.com. The domain expired …
Read More ».info Exclusive Go Daddy Auction – Update #1
Tomorrow it is 2 weeks after the auction ended at Go Daddy. Afilias ran an exclusive .info auction at Go Daddy for 106 domains that had been reserved since 2001. These .info sunrise domains had …
Read More ».eu claims an 80% increase on ADR cases because of reduced fees
The Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and .eu registry EURid have been running a special fee reduction to make the .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process more affordable. The cost of a basic proceeding has been cut …
Read More »2012 New gTLD Review
ICANN’s last “new gTLD” Weekly Update for 2012 took a look back at everything that was accomplished this year. A significant progress moving the New gTLD Program forward was achieved. In 2013 New gTLD applications …
Read More »ICANN creates a New gTLD Funds Investment Policy for the US$355 million of application fees
ICANN has collected approximately US$355 million of application fees from applicants for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in the New gTLD Program (net from pre-reveal withdrawals). The purpose of these application fees is to cover the …
Read More »ICANN selects the Swedish (.se) registry operator for new gTLD testing
ICANN announced that it selected the Swedish registry operator Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur (.SE) as the provider of Pre-Delegation Testing services for the new gTLD Program. Testing is done to verify that the new gTLD applicant …
Read More »5 Namejet auctions had a reserve glitch today
5 NameJet auctions had an unexpected failure of the previously set reserve price today. This error caused the inadvertent removal of reserve proxies in five NameJet auctions. Auctions will be extended for an additional hour. …
Read More »ICM Registry sells teacher.xxx for $8,415
ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. Last week 20 domains had been sold (or were pending) from the original list. This week 1 more domain …
Read More »Pool shutting down registrars effective January 10 – Domains in limbo
Pool is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. These are registrars that have been used drop catching for the Pool backordering service. Pool has not been so successful in acquiring dropped …
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