Last month I wrote how a domaining company Future Media Architects (FMA) dropped 2,737 3-letter .info domain names. I now checked the 17,576 three letter .biz combinations and found that FMA has dropped almost all …
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GoDaddy Auctions Domain Market Report: 45,852 Domains Sold in May
GoDaddy Auctions published it’s domain market report. Go Daddy Auctions sold 45,852 domains in May. It sold 42,480 domains in April. The most expensive domains sold were steamengine.com for $38,000 and filmesonline.com for $28,000. Here are …
Read More »Beijing Tele-info Wins $600,000 Auction for Chinese IDN “.info”
On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider, Power Auctions LLC, completed the first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups …
Read More ».XYZ is DEAD – DISASTER! Daniel Negari Exposed! .XYZ down to 34th place! Where is Deals.xyz?
Daniel Negari has tried to lie and deceive everybody and climb his way up to the top spot of New gTLDs. Well guess what Daniel? You failed. .XYZ is down at the 34th place of …
Read More »Moniker is back up. Problems remain! (#3)
Moniker is back up after being down for maintenance. I just logged into my account only to find more domains that what I had before. I have now 30 more domains since yesterday and that …
Read More »Moniker is closed for maintenance until 9:00 am (EDT)
I visited Moniker looking for one of my domains that is missing only to find this message below. Moniker is closed for maintenance until 9:00 am (EDT). I have made 2 post so far with …
Read More ».XYZ = not exactly the NEXT .COM, more like a disaster
.XYZ entered general availability yesterday and after the first few hours it had reached 14,924 registrations. It now ranks 15th among New gTLDs, just below .directory. That is hardly the performance expected from the NEXT …
Read More »Moniker Problems #2 (disappearing domains, wrong whois, invoices, new account ID)
Yesterday I made a post about a couple of Moniker problems I had. The post was triggered by an email invoice I got for a domain name renewal. I had let the domain expire of …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Sales: 9 sold for $3,000+ and 13 for $1,200+ (great.vacations, beach.rentals)
There were 22 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .rentals, .vacations, .flights, .cruises and .villas for a total of about $50,000 or more including the premium domains. The .dance auction at …
Read More »Moniker: let the problems begin! (auto-renew, credit cards, control panel)
I tried to warn everybody on Thursday that the new Moniker will be a huge problem but you can never prepare enough for a disaster. Today my problems began. Even though I had renew any …
Read More »Sedo sells 591 domains worth $1,1 million: Kaffee.de 100k Euro, Password.org 10k Euro(May 19-25)
In the past week (May 19 to May 25), 591 (491 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1m last week). Only 189 (200 last week) domains from …
Read More »Afternic – Go Daddy Auctions Domain Sales: StandardInsurance.com $25k, Awesome.de $10k (5-19-14/5-25-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 5-19-14 to 5-25-14 were $1.618.097 (last week $2.280.511). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …
Read More »Google: What happens when one page has two links to the same URL? (video)
Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, made a video reply to a question submitted at Google Webmaster Help. The question was: What impact would two links on a page pointing to the …
Read More »The Domain Name Responsibilities From ICANN To Domain Owners (infographic)
The Domain Name Industry is a growing network that is immense in scope, made up of organizations, businesses and individuals involved in the business of domain names. In an effort to explain the subject, ICANN …
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