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Verisign announced the first round of #InternetOfficial contest winners. The First Prize Winners will receive $5,000 each, and are eligible to compete to win the #InternetOfficial contest grand prize of $30,000. The panel of top …

Triple report today with 1 5-figure and 28 4-figure domain name sales. More Proof That ICANN Is A 2-Face Organization Sedo Will Now Display The Domain’s Asking Price Directly On The Parking Page Domain Name …

Sedo added a small change to its domain name parking pages. It will now display the domain name’s asking price directly on the parking page. This new feature affects both “Buy Now” and “Make offer” …

Yesterday I made a post about hundreds of 2-letter .berlin domain names that were registered by a .berlin registry partner against ICANN rules. It turns out that the problem was much deeper than I thought. …

Triple report today with 3 5-figure and 23 4-figure domain name sales. Domain Name Bought For $70, Sold For $20,000 ICANN makes rules and then it bypasses them without a proper procedure. It suddenly released …

All 676 combinations of 2-letter .berlin New gTLD domain names were registered yesterday against ICANN rules that prohibit the registration of all 2-letter domain names in New gTLDs. Domain names like us.berlin, uk.berlin and aa.berlin …

I had kind of a seller’s remorse. It was not exactly remorse but… Someone inquired a few weeks back about a .com domain name, I send him a quote (about $5000) and he immediately accepted …

In the past week 543 (669 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8 million ($1.3m in the previous week). Only 204 (236 in the previous week) domains …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name FZV.com that was sold for $15,000. Three character (LLL) .COM domains helped Flippa sell over $125,000 worth of domains. There were 4 .io sales this week. …

Namejet released it’s March 2015 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 94 (121 last month) domains for $641,557 ($614,451 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

A previous post contained a list of 89 .sucks domain names that have been registered by trademark holders during the first few days of the sunrise period for .sucks. Here is what a search for …

DomainNameSales.com announced yesterday that brokerage will be adjusting commission structures for brokered transactions from 12.5% to 15%. The announcement said that “This commission adjustment brings the industry’s most advanced sales-platform in-line with market rates charged …

I just sold a .com domain name for $20,000 at Sedo. So after the 15% fees I am getting $17,000. Wire has arrived in my bank account so I can share some of the interesting …

We are just a few days into the sunrise period for .sucks and more .sucks domain name registrations are registered (or rather applied for) daily. Latest registrations include domain names registered by Toms, Uber,