I got an email from Backorder Zone to complete an online survey and win a free backorder credit. Backorder Zone is a fairly new backorder service compared to others like Snapnames, Pool and Namejet. Apparently …
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Domain transfer requests for transfers you didn’t initiate – I don’t think it’s a scam…
Every once in a while I get a domain transfer request that I have not initiated. Over 90% of the time this transfer request is from Go Daddy. I am pretty sure that Go Daddy …
Read More »Warhol auction at Christie’s nets $17 million – Christies bought WarholArt.com for $6,457 last September
Christie’s, the global auction house, bought the domain name WarholArt.com for $6,457 last September at Afternic. The domain name WarholArt.com now redirects to http://www.christies.com/warhol/ that is the official website for the Andy Warhol auctions held …
Read More »Your Auction Is Now Private: GoDaddy fixes an everlasting problem…
About a month ago I complained about the GoDaddy auction system that allows previous owners to renew their expired domains up to a week after the auction has finished at TDNAM. This means that a …
Read More »What to do if you accidentally let your domain name expire. By 1&1…
I was browsing the 1&1 registrar website today (no I am not a customer) and found this useful advice to domain owners that did not intent to let their domains expire and their domains have …
Read More ».xxx sales mystery – 4 domains totaling $5,445 confirmed and 3 domains totaling $48,825 pending
I made a post earlier today saying that no premium .xxx domains have been sold in the past three weeks since ICM Registry put up a list of over 1000 .xxx domain names. Kevin Murphy …
Read More »None of the 1000+ reserved .xxx domains have been sold. Why?
The list of over 1000 .xxx domain names that was put up for sale 3 weeks ago has not changed. Not a single .xxx domain has been removed from the list. Does this mean that …
Read More ».PRO Auction at Sedo ends in a few hours
There are 179 premium .pro domains in the Sedo auction. Auction ends at 12 noon EST or 5pm GMT. 177 of the domains have a reserve of up to 499 USD. Video.pro and Movies.pro have a …
Read More »Sedo sells 919 domains worth $2.2 million: lahotels.com and paste.com sell for 100,000 USD each, cv.org at 30,000 USD and pkv.com at 17,500 GBP – Week 06/11-12/11 2012
This week, 919 transactions (861 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2 million ($1.95 last week). Only 213 domains (210 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …
Read More »Anyone experiencing delays at Pool?
I won a domain name on the 4th of November in an auction. I never got the “Congratulations! You have won domain(s)!” email from Pool but I also didn’t get the continuous emails telling me …
Read More »Bono opens Global Entrepreneurship Week at Georgetown University
Bono opens the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Washington, DC at Georgetown University. The frontman of U2 and founder of ONE and other cause-based organizations is delivering the keynote address on social enterprise and the power …
Read More »xxx.info, jobs.info and 1174 others remain inactive – .info Sunrise Pending Reallocation domain names
I got a question a few days ago about why Domain Tools reports 1174 .info domain names with Registrant: “Afilias Ltd / Sunrise Pending Reallocation”. Actually there were 1228 domains in this state but a …
Read More »Namejet Maintenance Alert – Make sure you add your backorders in advance
I just noticed a Maintenance Alert at Namejet and because not everybody will notice this in time, I am posting this here: Maintenance Alert We have scheduled a maintenance window to upgrade our network hardware and …
Read More »Sedo’s 3 remaining co-founders depart from the company – The 4th co-founder, Tim Schumacher, left Sedo last year
Tim Schumacher co-founded Sedo in 2001, together with Marius Würzner, Ulrich Essmann and Ulrich Priesner. Tobias Flaitz was named the new CEO/member of the Management Board of Sedo on February 1, 2012, succeeding Sedo’s former CEO …
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