In the past week (Apr 28 to May 4), 466 (444 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,2 million ($1,1m last week). Only 189 (195 last week) domains from …
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Afternic – Go Daddy Auctions Domain Sales: maimaiche.com $80k, FreeHookups.com $40k (4-28-14/5-04-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-28-14 to 5-04-14 were $1.878.819. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More »The Wrong Website Or Wrong Domain Name Issue
I get hundreds of emails every day and most a lot of them are spam as you all know. I got one email yesterday that my spam filter did not mark as spam. The subject …
Read More »Google: What are some myths about SEO?
Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about common SEO myths: Question: What are some of the biggest SEO myths you see still being repeated (either at conferences, or in blogs etc.) …
Read More ».wiki Landrush has started – GA: May 26th – Registry has 2552 premium domains reserved
The .wiki registry published a guide regarding the .wiki New gTLD landrush. The .wiki Sunrise phase ended this week. On May 8th, .wiki will enter Landrush, the phase in which motivated buyers can apply for …
Read More »New gTLD First Auctions Confirmed (A lot of the contested New gTLDs will be live in 2015)
ICANN has updated the Auction Schedule for New gTLD applicants with strings in contention sets. Here are the auction dates for some of the more important New gTLDs: .Buy, .Online, .Live: 9 July 2014 .Ltd, …
Read More »CENTR to ICANN: the stability and security of the Internet is of paramount importance
The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) Board of Directors has submitted input to the ICANN consultation on Principles & Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA’s Stewardship …
Read More »Flippa Updates Payment Methods: Credit Cards are no longer accepted
Flippa announced that they have made some changes to payment methods. Flippa says that these changes increase user protection while speeding up the post-auction transaction. The supported payment methods on Flippa are now only Escrow …
Read More »Demand Media: 80,000 new gTLD domains at eNom and Name.com, domains increase 10% to 15.4 million
Revenue ex-TAC of $87.4 Million and Adjusted EBITDA of $11.5 Million Registrar Revenue Increases 11% Year-over-Year to $39.1 Million 13 New gTLDs Launched and 29 New gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Signed to Date SANTA MONICA, …
Read More »34 more New gTLDs were delegated: .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS
ICANN announced that 34 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 259 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 34 new gTLDs: .FITNESS, .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS …
Read More ».nyc Enters First Phase of Launch With 1st Priority Given To NYC businesses With Trademarks
This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc web address. The “Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc …
Read More »CentralNic Group PLC Report: Net revenue increased by 4% to £3.05 million in 2013
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the owner and manager of an internet distribution platform which derives a revenue share from sales of internet domain names into markets across the world, today announces its audited results for the …
Read More ».Club Gets 25,411 Registrations On Day 1 And Now Ranks 6th Among New gTLDs
.Club general availability started today. .Club domain name registrations jumped from 370 yesterday to 25,781 registrations today adding 25,411 domain names in the first few hours of general availability. This was the second best New …
Read More ».Club launched today… Did you get any .club domain names?
.Club general availability started today. .Club was and still is one of my favorite new gtlds but I was not able to register any so far. It seems that all the good one word .club …
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