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. …

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 …

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 …

Last week Chris O’Dowd was a guest at Conan, the Conan O’Brien hosted TV show. At some point of the interview Conan asked Chris about his new movie with Megan Fox. Chris O’Dowd said that …

Verisign announced today that the .net registry fee will be increased from $5.11 to $5.62. This price does NOT include the $0.75 ICANN fee. So the actual wholesale fee paid by the registrars will be …

The domain name nye.com was just sold at NameJet. Highest bid was $175,500. The reserve was probably at about $100k but I can’t be sure. The auction had 331 bids from 285 bidders. There were 5 bidders with a $10k …

The Prioritization Draw was held on December 17th 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application was assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used …

This week, 945 transactions (900 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million ($1.52 last week). Only 183 domains (262 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Since Sedo (MLS) started forcingly and without my consent pushing my domain names at Go Daddy Auctions I have received a few offers from buyers through Go Daddy. I have removed 2 thirds of my …

I just noticed a couple of solid .us domain sales at Sedo this week: iceland.us 10,000 USD yummy.us 5,000 USD Other notable .us domain name sales from 2012: message.us 14,000 USD codemasters.us 10,000 USD cloud.us …

.fishing is the first contested gTLD to get a spot at the new GTLD prioritization draw. .fishing is contested by 2 applicants: United TLD Holdco Ltd. and Top Level Domain Holdings Limited Watch the live results …

.dnp got the first spot after the IDNs in the new GTLD prioritization draw. .play and .dog were drawn first but since these are contested they can’t get assigned a spot until all of their …

A Prioritization Draw is being held today 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will …

Sedo just published it’s 2012 domain review. It seems that Sedo is oblivious at to what is happening to their own company. I think that the highlight of this review is summed up in this …